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History, Historiography and the Nigerian Condition

Posted By: adminon: August 24, 2020In: Intervention AcademyTags: Archaeology, Edward Gibbon, Egypt, International Relations, Mega Chad, Roman Empire, UNESCO SitesNo CommentsViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki Where the revolutions of a mere sixty years cannot be correctly traced and accurately rendered, it becomes impossible to fathom how the events of centuries and mill... Read more

Occupy the NASS If SP Won’t Explain Borrowing Epidemic – PRP

Posted By: adminon: December 20, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Egypt, IGR, Kaduna State Government, Occupy Movement, Senate President Ahmed Lawan, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

Occupy politics may have arrived big time in Nigeria at last. The People’s Redemption Party, (PRP) is urging Nigerians to occupy the National Assembly should the Senate President and the Sen... Read more

Egypt and South Africa Leaves Nigeria, the Third of the Power Houses, Behind

Posted By: adminon: July 07, 2019In: Intervention AcademyTags: 'Undue Radicalism', Egypt, QS World University Ranking, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

The BBC, for example, calls Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa the African continent’s power houses. Of the three, only Nigeria is completely missing from the list of one of the most recognised... Read more

What Can Be Done About Nigeria’s Poorly Performing University System?

Posted By: adminon: March 12, 2019In: Intervention AcademyTags: 'brain drain', 'brain exchange', Egypt, Malaysia, SciVal, SOUTH AFRICA, Times Higer Education, UNESCO dataNo CommentsViews:

The university system in Nigeria is in shambles, That appears to be the consensus, from academic staff to the government, to employers and to platforms of popular culture such as this online... Read more

Are Insurgents Intensifying Attacks in Africa?

Posted By: adminon: November 25, 2017In: Transnational ChallengesTags: Arab League, Egypt, Mubi, NIGERIANo CommentsViews:

Might insurgents operating in Africa be serving notice on the continent to anticipate stepping up of attacks? This is the puzzle being contemplated following two coordinated, deadly attacks,... Read more

What are they Saying?

Posted By: adminon: April 30, 2017In: NewsLogTags: Brookings Institution, Egypt, Jonathan Pollack, North Korea, Pope Francis, USSRNo CommentsViews:

“All of us have the duty to teach coming generations that God, the Creator of heaven and earth, does not need to be protected by men.; indeed, it is he who protects them. he never desires th... Read more

The Challenge of Trump’s Telephone Diplomacy to Africa’s Power Houses

Posted By: adminon: February 14, 2017In: Meta-NigeriaTags: Abdel-Fattah el0Sissi, Africa's Power Houses, Declinists, Democrats, Egypt, Mediterranean Union, Pax Americana, Performativity, Professor Susan Strange, Republicans, Telephone DiplomacyNo CommentsViews:

The Challenge of Trump’s Telephone Diplomacy to Africa’s Power Houses But for the complexity of Donald Trump as president of the United States, it has been an accepted commonsensical reasoni... Read more

Is a Food Crisis Still Impending in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: January 20, 2017In: NewsLogTags: Army worms, Audu Ogbeh, Bandits, Egypt, Famine, Financial Times of London, Food crisis, Garba Shehu, International Strategic Studies Association, Kebbi, Lake Chad, Libya, Mali, Mercenaries, Migrants, Muammar Gaddafi, NATO, Saddam Hussein, Sudan, Terrorists, The Guardian, Toby LanzerNo CommentsViews:

Is a Food Crisis Still Impending in Nigeria? Nigeria has been inundated with alerts and alarms over risk of famine since September 2016. Is it the case that the best possible arrangements to... Read more

Donald Trump Should Embrace a Realist Foreign Policy

Posted By: Interven4allon: November 30, 2016In: NewsLogTags: Afghanistan, Chicago, CHINA, DONALD TRUMP, East Asia, Egypt, Europe, Georgia, Germany, India, Iraq, ISIS, John J. Mearsheimer, Libya, Obama, Persian Gulf, Russia, Syria, UK, Ukraine, YemenNo CommentsViews:

Remember John J. Mearsheimer, the University of Chicago’s R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science who wrote, among others, The Tragedy of Great Power Politic... Read more

The Most Powerful African You’ve Never Heard Of

Posted By: Interven4allon: November 19, 2016In: NewsLogTags: Addis Ababa, Africa, Dr Ayo Ajayi, Egypt, Ethiopia, HIV/AIDS, Mozambique, NGO, SIMON ALLISON, Somalia, Tanzania, ZambiaNo CommentsViews:

By Simon Allison A July 15th, 2015 piece in Johannesburg based Daily Maverick, this is republished for whatever it adds to African self-representation. Daily Maverick introduces Simon Alliso... Read more