NIIA | Intervention

Awaiting NIIA’s Roundtable on Xenophobia in South Africa

Posted By: adminon: August 12, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Comparative Politics, NIIA, SOUTH AFRICA, XenophobiaNo CommentsViews:

Every judgment stands on a comparative pedestal. Comparison makes meaning possible. This seems to be the point of departure of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) in its t... Read more

Tribute to Prof Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi, Just Honoured in NSIA

Posted By: adminon: July 28, 2026In: People in ActionTags: African Petroleum Producers Association, AIA, Concert of Medium Powers, NADECO, NIIA, NIPSS, NPSA, NSIA, Technical Aid CorpsNo CommentsViews:

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

Introducing Prof Ibrahim A. Gambari As Board Chairman of the NSIA

Posted By: adminon: July 26, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: ABU Zaria, International Studies, LSE, NIIA, NSIA, UNNo CommentsViews:

By Hassan A. Saliu This piece is aimed at formally introducing Prof Ibrahim Agboola Gambari as the Board Chairman of the reborn Nigerian Society of International Affairs (NSIA). It is also t... Read more

NIIA Tackles Nigeria’s Self-Materialisation in the World

Posted By: adminon: July 07, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Global Order, International Relations, NIIANo CommentsViews:

How is Nigeria materialising itself in a turbulent, disordered world? This is not a theme on which there is a consensus among Nigerians and others interested in Nigeria. Intervention can now... Read more

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:

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

NIIA’s Foreign Policy Lecture Tackles Elections-Democracy Puzzle in Africa

Posted By: adminon: February 04, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Civil society, Elections, Liberal democracy, NIIANo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) promises an interesting encounter with the unpacking of the elections-democracy puzzle in Africa Friday, February 6th, 2026. That is wh... Read more

Nigeria Police Goes Think tanking @ NIIA

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2026In: De-EscalationTags: Africa, insecurity, Nigeria Police, NIIA, Peace process, ReflexivityNo CommentsViews:

There is something paradoxical, on the face of it, for the Nigeria Police to be privileging its actorness in continental peace works when generalised insecurity is tearing Nigeria apart. Bu... Read more

Gov Sanwo-Olu to Speak on the Geopolitics of Lagos @ NIIA’s 2025 Distinguished Lecture Series

Posted By: adminon: September 14, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Distinguished Lecture series, LAGOS, Megacities, NIIA, Policy millNo CommentsViews:

Cities make capitalism possible. Although capitalism survives through what British Marxist geographer, David Harvey, calls the ‘spatial fix’ – a strategy of moving to new frontiers as soon a... Read more

NIIA Confronts Africa’s Paradoxical Significance in the World

Posted By: adminon: September 08, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Ambassador Godknows Igali, Dr. Julius Nyerere, NIIA, World politicsNo CommentsViews:

Africa is still a puzzle in world politics: rising in significance in the world mostly for demographic and endowment reasons but how does the significance gets realised? Well, the Nigerian I... Read more

Celebrating Prof. Warisu Oyesina Alli, Our Teacher, Mentor at 77

Posted By: adminon: July 25, 2025In: People in ActionTags: ASUU, NIIA, NPSA, NSIA, SIRA, Ukraine, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:

First published in Sept 2024, this piece is republished as part of a quiet celebration of Prof W. O. Alli who turned 77 yesterday (24/07/20250. The original title has been amended but the co... Read more