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For the Attention of Nigerian Foreign Policy Mandarins

Posted By: adminon: June 11, 2023In: BookspaceTags: Academia, Achebe, Canada, Coloniality of modernity, Intelligence, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Neorealism, SADF, SIIA, Summitry, The military, The Presidency, Things Fall Apart, Traditional diplomacy, UmofiaNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja These two books have not been written for Nigerian foreign policy but it would be surprising if they do not form the training manuals for the assemblage associated with formu... Read more

Onaiyekan, Agwai, Jega, Others Asks Nigerians to Turn Out to Vote

Posted By: adminon: February 16, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Cash crunch, INEC, Naira redesign, State governors, the Central Bank, The PresidencyNo CommentsViews:

Members of the Nigerian Working Group on Peacebuilding and Governance are asking Nigerians to step out and cast their votes on February 25th, 2023. Their position emerged in a communique pub... Read more

Imagining and De-escalating the Buhari – Obasanjo Dogfight

Posted By: adminon: June 20, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: Consensus, Fifth columnists, IMF/World Bank, The PresidencyNo CommentsViews:

If politics is about influence and the influential in every society, then there is something Nigeria of today cannot afford in the unfolding interaction between incumbent president, Muhammad... Read more

Can Bukola Saraki Swim to Safety?

Posted By: adminon: November 26, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: anti-corruption war, APC, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Dr Abubaka Sola Saraki, Gen Sani Abacha, Gen Shehu Yar'Adua, IMF/World Bank, Imperialism, NUC, PDP, President Buhari, Prof Sam Aluko, Senator George Akume, The Presidency, Umaru Musa Yar’AduaNo CommentsViews:

All things being equal, the 5th Memorial Lecture on the legacy of the late Dr Abubakar Sola Saraki holds tomorrow in Abuja. For many, it would be no more than one more manifestation of Niger... Read more

How Governors Sidelined Development Blueprints in Benue – Prof Yakubu Ochefu

Posted By: adminon: October 24, 2017In: SpectacleTags: Benue State, HSN, The Presidency, ‘Bread Basket’ of the NationNo CommentsViews:

Without blaming any individuals but merely illustrating the gulf between academia and governance or theory and practice in Nigeria, Prof Yakubu Ochefu who is at the centre of on-going conver... Read more