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Flashback to Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu on Nation Building in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: June 10, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: 1914, Germany, Niger Delta, Old USSR, South Sudan, The United Kingdom, United States of AmericaNo CommentsViews:
Flashback to Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu on Nation Building in Nigeria

“There is nothing peculiar. Nigerians are a terrible people when it comes to this matter. First of all, they said Nigeria is very diversified. Isn’t that so?  But India has over a thousand r... Read more

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Hot Spots in Africa and That Question Again: Conflict Management Failure or Endemic Catastrophe?

Posted By: adminon: December 22, 2016In: SpectacleTags: African Hotspots, Conflict Management Failure, DRC, Eghosa Osaghae, Endemic Catastrophe, genocide, Jammeh, Joseph Kabila, South Sudan, The Gambia, Transition fiascoNo CommentsViews:
Hot Spots in Africa and That Question Again: Conflict Management Failure or Endemic Catastrophe?

Hot Spots in Africa and That Question Again: Conflict Management Failure or Endemic Catastrophe? At the 2014 US-Africa Leaders Summit, African leaders disagreed openly before journalists on... Read more

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South Sudan: Preventing a Looming Genocide

Posted By: adminon: December 17, 2016In: SpectacleTags: genocide, Prevention plans, Signs, South Sudan, USIPNo CommentsViews:
South Sudan: Preventing a Looming Genocide

South Sudan: Preventing a Looming Genocide Experts on World’s Newest Country Lay Out Potential Strategies By Fred Strasser Not again in Africa or anywhere at all the horrendous experience of... Read more

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Electoral Wind of Change and Violence Across Africa

Posted By: adminon: December 09, 2016In: GovernanceTags: 2016 Ghana election, CHINA, Genocide Prevention, South Sudan, USNo CommentsViews:
Electoral Wind of Change and Violence Across Africa

Electoral Wind of Change Moves from Nigeria to Ghana and Gambia The wind of change in the fortune of incumbents in West Africa unleashed by the sacking of Goodluck Jonathan in Nigeria in Apr... Read more

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Herdsmen Violence: Fulani Model of Being Biafrans or False Allegation Against a ‘Historically Dominant Minority’?

Posted By: adminon: October 05, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Ahmadu Bello, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, Atiku Abubakar, Benue, Biafran, BOKO HARAM, buhari, Cameroon, Chido Onumah, Christian, CIA, Enugu, Fulani, Hausa-Fulanis Gwari, Hausa-Fulanis. And Christian Hausa-Fulanis, IBB Etsu Nupe, Isawa Elaigwu, Kano State, Kanuri Ebira Muslims, Katsina State, Libya, Modu Sherriff, Muhammadu Buhari, Niger Delta, Nigerian Professor Adamu Baike late Professor Ishaya Audu, Prof Jubril Aminu, Professor Peter Ekeh, Somalia, South Sudan, South-West, Sudan, Sultan of Sokoto1 CommentViews:
Herdsmen Violence: Fulani Model of Being Biafrans or False Allegation Against a ‘Historically Dominant Minority’?

By Adagbo ONOJA The provocation for this irregular series mapping what each of the dominant cultural identities has brought to the diversity-crisis nexus in Nigeria has already been located... Read more

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Still, No Breakthrough on Development in Africa

Posted By: adminon: October 04, 2016In: Governance, SpectacleTags: Botswana, Burundi, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, IIAG, Libya, Mauritius, Namibia, NIGERIA, Seychelles, Somalia, SOUTH AFRICA, South SudanNo CommentsViews:
Still, No Breakthrough on Development in Africa

By Max Bearak   The Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) — the most comprehensive survey of its kind — celebrated its 10th anniversary on Monday with the release of a report that... Read more

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Zimbabweanization of Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: September 25, 2016In: SpectacleTags: African, American, BOKO HARAM, British, Cameroun, European, Ghana, Kenya, Kofi Annan, NIGERIA, NTA, Robert Mugabe, South Sudan, Uganda, ZimbabweNo CommentsViews:
Zimbabweanization of Nigeria?

By Professor Okello Oculi A neo-comic news item telecast by the  Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Network News showed two elderly American businessmen – wrapped in locally woven Tiv... Read more

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Blood and Greed: How Kenya and Uganda are cashing in on Death and Plunder in South Sudan

Posted By: adminon: September 16, 2016In: SpectacleTags: Barack Obama, Kenya, Nairobi, President Salva Kiir, South Sudan, UgandaNo CommentsViews:
Blood and Greed: How Kenya and Uganda are cashing in on Death and Plunder in South Sudan

Intervention has reproduced this report below from This Is Africa, not so much on the basis of its belief in its veracity or otherwise but the so many issues it raises for and about Africa –... Read more

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General Aliyu Gusau Opens Up on Boko Haram

Posted By: adminon: August 30, 2016In: FlashbackTags: Australia, BOKO HARAM, CHINA, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau, GWOT, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Pakistan, Red Sea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Somaliland, South Sudan, Sudan, the EU, Turkey, United States, West Africa, YemenNo CommentsViews:
General Aliyu Gusau Opens Up on Boko Haram

By Adagbo ONOJA General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau, two time National Security Adviser as well as a former Minister of Defence of Nigeria has thrown into question the Islamicist claims of Boko Har... Read more

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Child brides sold for cows

Posted By: adminon: August 03, 2016In: FlashbackTags: Child brides, South SudanNo CommentsViews:
Child brides sold for cows

      This feature has been reproduced from the online version of Los Angeles Times, (July 29th, 2016). Media activists would surely frown at it on the ground of negativism in... Read more

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