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

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

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Is Africa Back to Another Round of the Coup Syndrome of the Mid 1960s Or What?

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: AU, Cold War, ECOWAS, Global war on terror, Military dictatorship, UNNo CommentsViews:
Is Africa Back to Another Round of the Coup Syndrome of the Mid 1960s Or What?

Soldiers toppling civilian leaders across Africa was a very regular thing in the mid-1960s and thereafter. In the post Cold War, there was a thaw as popular interests took on military dictat... Read more

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Is Nigeria Watching Climate Change From the Prism of the ‘Tropic of Chaos’?

Posted By: adminon: August 10, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Climate Change, COP26, Green Peace, IPCC, UN, ‘Code red for humanity’, ‘Tropic of Chaos’No CommentsViews:
Is Nigeria Watching Climate Change From the Prism of the ‘Tropic of Chaos’?

This book was not written with Nigeria in mind but Nigeria fits neatly as a case study in its predictive accuracy the day after the UN’s Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC) re... Read more

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Who is Afraid of Putting Out the Fire Between Israelis and the Palestinians?

Posted By: adminon: May 16, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: Conflict, EU, Hamas, Power, UNNo CommentsViews:
Who is Afraid of Putting Out the Fire Between Israelis and the Palestinians?

It has been a week of horror for global justice and peace minded humanity as Israel and the Palestine returns to violence. The Washington Post was so precise as to speak of the Palestinians... Read more

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Larry King’s Death As Reminder of the Night Yasser Arafat Slept in the UN Chief’s Office

Posted By: adminon: January 24, 2021In: People in ActionTags: Muammar Gaddafi, PLO, UN, UNCANo CommentsViews:
Larry King’s Death As Reminder of the Night Yasser Arafat Slept in the UN Chief’s Office

It must mark the complexity of the United States that such a country filled with variants of Bill O’Reilly, notorious for spreading violent taxonomies of international politics or what... Read more

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The World in 2021

Posted By: adminon: January 02, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Asia, ILO, Latin America, Multilateralism, Pax Americana, UNNo CommentsViews:
The World in 2021

An interesting piece from the Inter Press Service by an ex-staff of the International Labour Organisation, (ILO), this offers what can be called an honest broker’s intervention. Its closing... Read more

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Engr. Muhammed Abba-Gana Writes Gambari, Calls Appointment Apt

Posted By: adminon: May 14, 2020In: GovernanceTags: Nigerian establishment, PDP, UNNo CommentsViews:
Engr. Muhammed Abba-Gana Writes Gambari, Calls Appointment Apt

In what gives a glimpse of what even the more reflexivist section of the (Northern) Nigerian establishment might be thinking about Prof Ibrahim Gambari’s appointment as Chief of Staff... Read more

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How Long Will This Disease in Benue State Remain Strange?

Posted By: adminon: February 15, 2020In: FlashbackTags: International Security, Obi LGA, Oju LGA, Opialu Village, UN, UNICEFNo CommentsViews:
How Long Will This Disease in Benue State Remain Strange?

It must be unique to Nigeria for a disease that was the subject of front page headlines since January 29th, 2020,  as ravaging a part of Benue State to still be a strange disease unknown to... Read more

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Dr Chris Kwaja’s Moment in Peace Scholarship

Posted By: adminon: February 11, 2020In: People in ActionTags: Modibbo Adama University, SPSP, UNNo CommentsViews:
Dr Chris Kwaja’s Moment in Peace Scholarship

There is no doubt about it that Nigeria’s Society for Peace Studies and Practice, (SPSP) is yet to establish itself in terms of what might be reckoned with as cutting-edge practices. Notwith... Read more

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Global Partnership for Education Warms Up for August 12th, 2019 IYD

Posted By: adminon: August 09, 2019In: FlashbackTags: GPE, IYD, Malala Fund, UNNo CommentsViews:
Global Partnership for Education Warms Up for August 12th, 2019 IYD

Global Partnership for Education, (GPE), the international platform pushing for educational access for all children in the developing world is already on the trenches ahead of this year’s In... Read more

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