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Nigerians, Beware of a 21st Century Edition of ‘It is the Bale himself’!

Posted By: adminon: March 03, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: Christians, FRONTEX, Imperialism, Iran, Israel, Kofi Annan, Muslims, Old Oyo Empire, R2P, Sovereignty, Trump, ‘Mistake of 1914’1 CommentViews:
Nigerians, Beware of a 21st Century Edition of ‘It is the Bale himself'!

By Adagbo Onoja Let me begin this piece by refreshing the memories of readers of Intervention about this story of the fate of the old Oyo Empire told by the late US based Nigerian theorist,... Read more

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NIIA Plumbs Deeper, Simulates Global Geopolitical Shifts

Posted By: adminon: March 03, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, AU, BRICS, Great power, Iran, Israel, Medium powers, NIIA, NPSA, Political Science, Prime Minister Mark Carney, Prof Bolaji Akinyemi, Ukraine, USANo CommentsViews:
NIIA Plumbs Deeper, Simulates Global Geopolitical Shifts

The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) might be plumbing into raising the stakes in think tanking the international. For its impending Lecture Series, it is not only aggregat... Read more

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NIIA Intellectualises Diasporic Community As An Instrument of Nigerian Foreign Policy

Posted By: adminon: January 05, 2025In: GovernanceTags: Canada, Diasporic community, France, Israel, Nigerian foreign policy, NIIA, People's Republic of China, UKNo CommentsViews:
NIIA Intellectualises Diasporic Community As An Instrument of Nigerian Foreign Policy

The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) is set to centralise intellectualising the idea of the diasporic community as an instrument of (Nigerian) foreign policy. Come January... Read more

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Stella Maris, Defiant Nigerian, Fights Removal as Rector of UK’s University of St Andrews

Posted By: adminon: August 04, 2024In: SpectacleTags: American campuses, Anti-Semitism, Gaza, Israel, NIGERIA, Rector, Scotland, University of St AndrewsNo CommentsViews:
Stella Maris, Defiant Nigerian, Fights Removal as Rector of UK’s University of St Andrews

Her name must be somewhere at the top on the list of such people in Nigeria’s agentian geopolitics if such is a functional component of Nigeria’s diplomacy. She would be so considered not be... Read more

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2×2 geopolitics: Wars and Ideology Simplified

Posted By: adminon: June 28, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Chinese author, International Law, Israel, Palestine, Russia, Ukraine, ‘US EmpireNo CommentsViews:
2x2 geopolitics: Wars and Ideology Simplified

By Branko Milanovic Recently, a Chinese author (as seems from the text and the Chinese characters used) proposed the following understanding of international relations. (I am grateful to a f... Read more

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Judith Butler Wants Us to Reshape Our Rage

Posted By: adminon: May 04, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Gender, Humanity, Israel, Latin America, Middle East, Palestine, violence, White supremacy, WomenNo CommentsViews:
Judith Butler Wants Us to Reshape Our Rage

Why should Intervention unleash on readers a 2020 interview of about 6000-word interview with Prof Judith Butler? It is not Intervention’s own making. It is simply because Butler is an icon.... Read more

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The Israel-Iran Crisis: A Chance to Step Back from the Brink

Posted By: adminon: April 17, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Beijing, Deterrence, Hamas, Hizbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Operation True Promise, WashingtonNo CommentsViews:
The Israel-Iran Crisis: A Chance to Step Back from the Brink

By International Crisis Group There is some careful balancing in this statement that makes it a more attractive intervention than that of those who are either parroting Israel’s invincibilit... Read more

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Lenin Centenary Calls Nigeria a Lootocracy, Not Democracy, Bashes NLC, TUC

Posted By: adminon: January 22, 2024In: SpectacleTags: AAC, ASUU, Freedom, Gaza, Israel, Marxism – Leninism, MPN, NLC, PLA, Russia, TUC, Vladimir LeninNo CommentsViews:
Lenin Centenary Calls Nigeria a Lootocracy, Not Democracy, Bashes NLC, TUC

The Nigerian government and the people leading it got the lowest rating at the opening ceremony in Abuja Monday (January 22nd) of the centenary of the passage of Vladimir Lenin, founding fig... Read more

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Hurray! Prof Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi, the Realist-Idealist Scholar, is 82

Posted By: adminon: January 07, 2024In: People in ActionTags: CHINA, Concept of Medium Powers, Israel, NADECO, NIIA, NPSA, Realism, TAC, UI, UNILAG, USA, Western powersNo CommentsViews:
Hurray! Prof Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi, the Realist-Idealist Scholar, is 82

By Hassan A. Saliu Professor Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi, the son of a priest and politician, is an academic colossus whose impacts on various aspects of Nigerian life cannot be captured in a... Read more

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Gaza and the Rest of Us

Posted By: adminon: December 09, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Africans, Asians, Gaza, Israel, Joseph Conrad, Latin Americans, Palestine1 CommentViews:
Gaza and the Rest of Us

By Ambassador Usman Sarki It is a forlorn hope and an unattainable dream to expect the West to conduct its affairs according to the impulse of humanity and principles of humanizing behaviour... Read more

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