By Prof Hassan Saliu Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, a renowned political scientist, administrator, public intellectual, and international relations’ expert, added another year to his age on January... Read more
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
Prof Hassan A. Saliu In October 1951, a baby was born in the hilly town of Okene, Kogi State. One week after, he was given a name that was to be significant in Nigeria. The baby was Prof. Nu... Read more
By Prof Hassan A. Saliu Professor W.O. Alli turned 76 some months back. A renowned scholar in the field of International Relations, Professor Alli joined the University of Jos in 1981 as a c... Read more
What might a prosperous member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) offer a potentially great but struggling African hegemon? This is the question the Nigerian Institute of Inter... Read more
This piece is re-published here within the context of the imperative of giving space to contending reactions to the Supreme Court ruling on financial autonomy of local government councils. T... Read more
Traditional rulers have been canvassing for formal roles in the polity. National integration also remains a burning topic in Nigeria even though Nigerians are more integrated than they think... Read more
The global agenda is in a flux. The much talked about ‘liberal international order’ is unravelling. The world is experiencing what most scholars of world politics would call hegemonic succes... Read more
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
But for the tendency of heads of government agencies such as the Customs, the Police, Immigration and so on to think that it is not part of their duty to be critical (because there is a conf... Read more
