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So, What is Terminally Ailing NIIA, NIPSS, IPCR and Other State Owned Think Tanks in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: February 12, 2021In: SpectacleTags: BBC, CDD, Chatham House, ECOWAS, FASS, IPCR, NIIA, NIPSS, NISERNo CommentsViews:
So, What is Terminally Ailing NIIA, NIPSS, IPCR and Other State Owned Think Tanks in Nigeria?

It has become a badge of some reference to be invited from Nigeria to utilize the Chatham House platform in London. Most politicians and intellectuals of statecraft who manage to get invited... Read more

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In Search of Two ‘Missing’ Books

Posted By: adminon: January 30, 2021In: BookspaceTags: CPN, NIIANo CommentsViews:
In Search of Two ‘Missing’ Books

Two publications seem to have totally disappeared from circulation. While one is titled Balaji Akinyemi Seagull: The Perception of Others, the name of the second is not even clear anymore be... Read more

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The Story Behind the Story of One Nigerian Diplomatic Career

Posted By: adminon: September 29, 2020In: People in ActionTags: Billey Dudley, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, First Class Degree, Mandela, NIIA, University of London, University of Portharcourt, Veritas UniversityNo CommentsViews:
The Story Behind the Story of One Nigerian Diplomatic Career

This book presents a problem for any reviewer: focus on the subject matter of the book or first draw out the equally compelling features that gives the book its multidimensional character? O... Read more

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Where is Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister in All These?

Posted By: adminon: January 14, 2020In: SpectacleTags: Gaddafi, Goodluck Jonathan, ICPR, Libya, NATO, NIIA, NIPSS, ‘Diplomatic Soldiering’No CommentsViews:
Where is Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister in All These?

Historically, foreign policy has played a unifying force for Nigeria. Like sports or, more precisely, soccer, foreign policy tends to dissolve barriers. As divided at home as Nigerians, a ty... Read more

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When the Kilba People Tell Their Own Story on December 21st, 2019

Posted By: adminon: December 13, 2019In: BookspaceTags: Foreign policy, IPCR, Jimeta - Yola, Kilba Development Association, Nation building, Nationalist lores, NIIA, NIPSSNo CommentsViews:
When the Kilba People Tell Their Own Story on December 21st, 2019

The point is that Nigeria and the world will only be a better place if every identity tells its own story because no one can tell any other person’s story without turning it into a tool for... Read more

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Did the ‘Revolution’ Fail the Social Media or the Social Media Fail the ‘Revolution’?

Posted By: adminon: August 07, 2019In: GovernanceTags: IPCR, NBC, NCC, NIIA, NIPSSNo CommentsViews:
Did the ‘Revolution’ Fail the Social Media or the Social Media Fail the ‘Revolution’?

Who can say that Nigeria is not contributing to knowledge, global politics and the determination of world order? Not if it has just exploded a major myth of the 21st century which claims so... Read more

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But for Tragedy, Founding Fathers Planned Every Nigerian University to Be World Class (2)

Posted By: adminon: March 17, 2019In: BookspaceTags: ABU Zaria, NIIA, UI, UNESCO, UNILAG, UNN - NsukkaNo CommentsViews:
But for Tragedy, Founding Fathers Planned Every Nigerian University to Be World Class (2)

The first part of this special feature was devoted to demonstrating the contention that but for the developmental tragedy that has befallen Nigeria, her founding fathers planned the first, s... Read more

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Family Announces Burial Arrangements for Professor Ogaba Oche

Posted By: adminon: February 21, 2019In: People in ActionTags: Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, NIIA, RCCG, University of Jos, University of KansasNo CommentsViews:
Family Announces Burial Arrangements for Professor Ogaba Oche

Professor Ogaba Oche, ace International Relations scholar who slumped and died on February 8th, 2019 is to be buried on March 2nd, 2019, the family has announced. The burial which has alread... Read more

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Emirs, Retired Generals, Intellectuals and Governors Engage Prof Elaigwu’s Newest Book

Posted By: adminon: April 11, 2018In: BookspaceTags: GDP, NIIA, NIPSS, NPSANo CommentsViews:
Emirs, Retired Generals, Intellectuals and Governors Engage Prof Elaigwu’s Newest Book

It was a harvest of opinions as various shades of the power elite engaged the prospects of enduring democracy in Africa in Abuja. It was at the book presentation of Prof Isawa Elaigwu’s newe... Read more

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Power Lying on the Ground in 2019: Before, After and Beyond Obasanjo’s Letter (2)

Posted By: adminon: January 24, 2018In: SpectacleTags: ACF, CAN, CN, JNI, Mandela, MBF, National Peace Committee, NIIANo CommentsViews:
Power Lying on the Ground in 2019: Before, After and Beyond Obasanjo’s Letter (2)

Before the rupturous re-entry of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, the High Priest of ‘red card’ in Nigerian politics, to issue President Muhammadu Buhari quit notice via a more than damning testimon... Read more

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