Henry Kissinger Archives

Intervention Replies ‘Query’ on General TY Danjuma Story

Posted By: adminon: December 01, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: ABU Zaria, Awoism, Black scorpion, General T. Y. Danjuma, Grid, Henry Kissinger, IBB, Northern intelligentsia, OBJ, Samuel Huntington, T Y Foundation, Zikism, ‘Jack’No CommentsViews:

Intervention thanks all those who have raised questions on the story titled Theophilus Danjuma Does It Again, But….. The TY story in question is one of the mysteries of the audience of... Read more

Amb Nicholas Ella, Nura Rimi As a Window on 8 New Perm Secs in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 25, 2023In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Africa, CHINA, Egypt, Gen Joe Garba, Gen. Murtala Mohammed, Henry Kissinger, India, London, Nigerian foreign service, Nigeria’s neighbours, Prof Bolaji Akinyemi, US1 CommentViews:

Correction It has become necessary to correct two impressions created by this story, based on calls from readers. (1) This story did not imply that Ambassadors Nicholas Ella and Nura Rimi ar... Read more

They Have Been Married for 21 Years!

Posted By: adminon: April 03, 2023In: LifeworldTags: diplomat, Henry Kissinger, Love, Murtala Mohammed, The ‘Maria touch’, ‘Omoka’No CommentsViews:

A senior Nigerian diplomat like Nicholas Agbo Ella who has paid his dues in diplomatic service – broken bread with presidents, prime ministers and top intellectuals of statecraft across the... Read more

What US-Chinese Elite Are Thinking Ahead

Posted By: adminon: November 26, 2019In: World From AfricaTags: ASEAN, Beijing, Davos, FutureMap, Henry Kissinger, Meituan Dianping, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, The New EconomyNo CommentsViews:

As members of the power elite in Nigeria are lost in unproductive bickering along ethno-regional lines and while their leading ideologues such as Gov Nasir el-Rufai are still parroting slave... Read more

Did Peter Obi Say China is a Private Sector Led Economy?

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2019In: SpectacleTags: 'Socialist Market Economy', Charles Soludo, Henry Kissinger, Kenneh Pomeranz, SOEs, State Capitalism, TheCandidatesNo CommentsViews:

The 2019 presidential contest evokes two fears for many. One is the fear of those who believe that President Buhari could destroy the country with his management of diversity considered to b... Read more

Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski is Dead

Posted By: adminon: May 27, 2017In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Condoleezza Rice, Harvard University, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Sino-Soviet split, Stanford University, Zbigniew BrzezinskiNo CommentsViews:

Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski is dead. Brzezinski died last night in the US at the age 89. Scholars and practitioners of global politics will miss his complicated individuality that made him... Read more

Poverty and the Geopolitics of Breaking Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: April 08, 2017In: Policy & GovernanceTags: 'Strange Cold War', 2013 Nigerian Economic Report, Ebirra, Fulani, Hate ideologies, Hausa, Henry Kissinger, Igala, John Litwack, Jukun, Kanuri, NEEDS, Nupe, Sultan of Sokoto, The World Bank Group, TivNo CommentsViews:

From the Breton Woods institutions to the universities and similar actors in the global policy mill, it is a narrative of poverty as the definitive marker of contemporary Nigeria. Key to the... Read more