NATO | Intervention

Gen Victor Malu, Nigeria and ECOMOG

Posted By: adminon: November 02, 2017In: FlashbackTags: ECOWAS, First Gulf War, Katsina Ala, Liberia, NATO, NNS AMBE, The Gambia, USNo CommentsViews:

By Paul Ejime Originally published as “Tribute to Gen Victor Malu, Nigeria’s ECOMOG Hero” on Pambazuka Online, (Nov. 2nd, 2017), this piece provides solid, additional bits that ties together... Read more

Could Donald Trump Actually Be an Emperor Without Clothes on North Korea?

Posted By: adminon: July 05, 2017In: FlashbackTags: CHINA, Japan, Kim Jong Un, NATO, North Korea, Saddam HusseinNo CommentsViews:

Find out in this razor-sharp piece what might have landed US President, Donald Trump, in what looks like a strategic dilemma over North Korea. To move is to risk millions of lives and, in fa... Read more

Trump Marks the End of a Cycle

Posted By: adminon: February 23, 2017In: FlashbackTags: 'God is America', Cancun-Mexico, DONALD TRUMP, Geert Wilders, Margreat Thatcher, Marie Le Pen, Matteo Salvini, Multilateralism, NATO, Nicholas Farage, Ronald Reagan, Stephen Bannon, UN, US DollarNo CommentsViews:

Trump Marks the End of a Cycle By Roberto Savio* This piece may look academic but it is actually about the day-day issue of survival of everyone in the world. Power is the decisive element... Read more

Is a Food Crisis Still Impending in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: January 20, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 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

Reloading Nigeria’s Risk Baggage in 2017, (Part 3)

Posted By: adminon: December 28, 2016In: GovernanceTags: 21st Century Scramble for Africa, Africa Mining Vision, AFRICOM, Battleground Africa, Brazil, CHINA, France intervention in Mali, Gaddafi, India, Japan, Margreat Carol Lee, NATO, NIGERIA, Russia, USNo CommentsViews:

Reloading Nigeria’s Risk Baggage in 2017, (Part 3) The third and the conclusion of a three-part Special Report discuss the ‘Battleground Africa’ risk baggage in relation to Nigeria. In bring... Read more

Africa’s is a Crisis of Contested Legitimacy -Tanzanian Opposition Leader’s Interview, Part 2

Posted By: adminon: November 21, 2016In: GovernanceTags: African, BOKO HARAM, Claude Ake, DONALD TRUMP, Europe, GATT, Ghana, Hilary Clinton, John Magufuli, Late Nelson Mandela, Liberia, NATO, Obama, Prof Richard, Professor Mwesiga Baregu, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tanzania, UNCTAD, USNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA In part 1 of this interview published October 13th, 2016, Professor Mwesiga Baregu, political scientist and a leading opposition figure in Tanzania outlined the basis... Read more

Whose Finger on the Nuclear Button?

Posted By: adminon: November 09, 2016In: FlashbackTags: ALCM, Crimea, DONALD TRUMP, GLCM, HILLARY CLINTON, ICBM, INF, LRSO, NATO, Obama, Russian, THAAD, Ukraine, US, USSR, William J. PerryNo CommentsViews:

By Michael Klare Although the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election might have been won and lost by the time this is published, this point in this piece still calls for reflection, ir... Read more

EDITORIAL

Posted By: adminon: November 07, 2016In: SpectacleTags: Ajaokuta, Aliko Dangote, CHINA, Egypt, Ethiopia, FGN, GSM, Ibadan, IBB, India, Kenya, LAGOS, Mambilla Plateau, Mozambique, Murtala Mohammed Airport, NATO, NIPSS, NITEL, OBASANJO, SAP, SOUTH AFRICA, ZambiaNo CommentsViews:

The Dangote Insurgency Speaking at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, (NIPSS), Kuru in Jos on October 27th, 2016, Aliko Dangote, the Head of the Dangote conglome... Read more

African Union deserves visionary, dynamic leadership

Posted By: adminon: September 09, 2016In: SpectacleTags: African, Ambassador Ngovi Kitau, ANC, AU, British, COMESA, Dr Dlamini Zuma, ECOWAS, European Union, General Yakubu Gowon, Iraq, Kofi Annan, Libya, Moammar Gadhafi, MOROCCO, NATO, NELSON MANDELA, OAU, Prof George B.N. Ayittey, Tendai Ruben Mbofana, UNECANo CommentsViews:

By Paul Ejime As an example of leadership for Africa, the AU is seriously wanting. Yet this is not just an intergovernmental organization. It is a rallying point for the actualization... Read more

G20, Ever a Reminder to Nigeria, Rolls On in China

Posted By: adminon: August 31, 2016In: FlashbackTags: APC, Babatunde Fashola, CHINA, David Cameroun, G20, Germany, India, Mexico, MINT, Mohammadu Buhari, NATO, NIGERIA, Obama, Professor Daniel Drezner, Russia, Turkey, USNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA “IF A Martian were to land on earth and be asked, based on effort put into spiffing itself up, which city was the Olympic host this year, there is a good chance it would gue... Read more