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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

Participants Clash Over Anti-African Immigrants Violence in South Africa at CDD’s 2026 Mandela Day in Nigeria (1)

Posted By: adminon: July 19, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: AfCFTA, Afrophobia, ANC, ASUU, CDD-West Africa, Foreign influence, Mandela, NSUK, UNNo CommentsViews:

The 2026 Mandela Day in Nigeria turned into a clash site of two dominant but contending views on the anti-African immigrant violence in South Africa. A remarkably novel interpretation of the... Read more

Nelson Mandela’s Long Developmental Walk Through CDD-WA to Nigeria’s Shaddai Community

Posted By: adminon: July 17, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: 2026 Mandela Day, CDD-WA, Development, Kuje Area Council, Shadadi Community, Shadadi LGEA Primary School, UNNo CommentsViews:

Though long dead, Nelson Mandela still exercises symbolic power on development across Africa. The latest material evidence for the claim came alive today (17/07/20260 when CDD-West Africa ma... Read more

The World in the Shadow of Davos: Taking Canada Seriously

Posted By: adminon: January 22, 2026In: De-EscalationTags: Davos, Middle powers, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, UN, WEF, WTONo CommentsViews:

By Chris Kwaja In what translates to beating a loud drum of caution at the World Economic Forum (WEF), in Davos, Switzerland, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, became the rallying point... Read more

Awaiting UNIJOS’s Prof Victor Adetula on Corruption and Democratic Recovery in Africa @ 2025 Billy Dudley Lecture August 25th

Posted By: adminon: August 19, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Abuja, Addis Ababa, Billy Dudley, Cairo, International development circuit, Johannesburg, NPSA, Political Science, UI, UNNo CommentsViews:

The Political Science establishment in Nigeria is stepping into an intense intellectual scrutiny of what the phenomenon of corruption might be doing to democratic recovery on the African con... Read more

A Potential ‘Grass to Grace’ Classic

Posted By: adminon: September 03, 2024In: SpectacleTags: African readers, Amazon, Ambassador Yvette Stevens, Emancipation, Sierra Leone, UNNo CommentsViews:

Intervention has not read the book but the bits clearly speaks to it as a potential classic of the grass to grace paradigm. While awaiting the read, the teasers from Amazon’s promo is sugges... Read more

Stop the Constitutional Coup in Senegal – African Intellectuals, Activists Tell Senegalese President

Posted By: adminon: February 08, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: African intellectuals, AU, Civil society activists, ECOWAS, Electoral Hub, President Macky Sall, Senegalese people, UNNo CommentsViews:

There has been a blistering rebuke for President Macky Sall of Senegal for staging a constitutional coup by sacking opposition members of parliament in that country and embarking on unconsti... Read more

UDU International Symposium Blames Northwestern Nigeria, Middle East Conflicts on Governance, Nationhood and Prejudices

Posted By: adminon: November 14, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: International Law, Middle East conflict, Palestinian question, Peacebuilding, UDU, UNNo CommentsViews:

USMANU DANFODIYO UNIVERSITY, SOKOTO CENTRE FOR PEACE STUDIES COMMUNIQUE OF AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON “PATHWAYS TO ENHANCED SECURITY AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION – NORTHWESTERN NIGERIA... Read more

Requiem for a Dying International Order

Posted By: adminon: October 14, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Anglo-American Empire, BRICS, De-dollarisation policy, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Historical Palestine, Israel, NATO, People's Republic of China, Taiwan, UNNo CommentsViews:

By Abubakar Aliyu Liman Scriptural discourses, characteristic of Abrahamic faith-systems, are replete with graphic allusions to Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Such narratives are i... Read more

Emi Lokan: Between Elite Political Settlement and the Real Politik of Individual Ambition

Posted By: adminon: June 24, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: BAT, June 12 annulment, MKO Abiola, Odua, UN, World War 111No CommentsViews:

By E. Remi Aiyede “I don’t think any person in Nigeria today of 200 million people, can say this is my turn. Now, it is never your turn. Even if you want to say it is the turn of the people... Read more