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General T Y Danjuma Puts Resilience at the Heart of Nigeria’s National Security

Posted By: adminon: April 21, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Happiness Studies', CITAD, General TY Danjuma, IMF/World Bank, PCNI, UK, UN, United States Institute of Peace, USNo CommentsViews:

Nigeria appears to have formally given a nod for utilization of resilience as backbone of personnel, local, regional and national shock therapy against uncertainties of the times. General Th... Read more

Middle Belt Intelligentsia Declare Herdsmen Violence Greatest National Security Threat

Posted By: adminon: March 19, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Makurdi Declaration', Benue State Government, Benue State University, BOKO HARAM, genocide, Makurdi, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, UN, Week of PrayersNo CommentsViews:

Middle Belt Intelligentsia Declare Herdsmen Violence Greatest National Security Threat Anger against herdsmen violence went up one notch higher yesterday with Middle Belt intelligentsia form... Read more

Trump Marks the End of a Cycle

Posted By: adminon: February 23, 2017In: FlashbackTags: 'God is America', Cancun-Mexico, DONALD TRUMP, Geert Wilders, Margreat Thatcher, Marie Le Pen, Matteo Salvini, Multilateralism, NATO, Nicholas Farage, Ronald Reagan, Stephen Bannon, UN, US DollarNo CommentsViews:

Trump Marks the End of a Cycle By Roberto Savio* This piece may look academic but it is actually about the day-day issue of survival of everyone in the world. Power is the decisive element... Read more

Burundi edges closer to the abyss in 2016

Posted By: adminon: December 13, 2016In: SpectacleTags: AU, ethnicity, genocide, Nkurunziza, UNNo CommentsViews:

Burundi edges closer to the abyss in 2016 By Rene Lemarchand In this short piece, extracted from The Conversation, (December 12th, 2016), Lemarchand, Professor Emeritus and leading authorit... Read more

International Intervention Begins on The Gambia

Posted By: adminon: December 11, 2016In: GovernanceTags: AU, ECOWAS, Intervention, The Gambia, UNNo CommentsViews:

International Intervention Begins on The Gambia The first wave of predictable international pressure is mounting on Yahya Jammeh, out – going president of The Gambia to hand over power rathe... Read more

International Intervention Likely in The Gambia as Jammeh Stalls

Posted By: adminon: December 10, 2016In: SpectacleTags: ELECTION, Jammeh, Senegal, UN, USNo CommentsViews:

International Intervention Likely in The Gambia as Jammeh Stalls An electoral impasse is brewing in The Gambia, the resolution of which will be internationalised if the three earliest reacti... Read more

Brazil Breaking BRICS?

Posted By: adminon: November 28, 2016In: FlashbackTags: Brazil, BRICS, CHINA, Dilma Rousseff, DONALD TRUMP, France, India, Michel Temer, Russia, SOUTH AFRICA, UN, US, WTONo CommentsViews:

Published originally in The Conversation online (Nov 20th, 2016) under the title “Brazil is breaking with its south-south focus. What it means for BRICS”, this piece hints about... Read more

Who Succeeds Margaret Chan as WHO Leader? Asks Lyndal Rowlands

Posted By: adminon: October 30, 2016In: FlashbackTags: AIDS/HIV, CHINA, Dr David Nabarro, Dr Flavia Bustreo, Dr Miklós Szócska, Dr Sania Nishtar, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Ebola, Esperanza Martinez, Ethiopia, France, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Hungary, ICRC, IPS, Italy, Lyndal Rowlands, Margaret Chan, Norway, Pakistan, Professor Philippe Douste-Blazy, Sierra Leone, Susannah Sirkin, Syria, tuberculosis, UN, WHO, ZikaNo CommentsViews:

Written and published originally by Inter Press Service News Agency, (IPS) under the title “Who Should Lead the WHO Next?”, the author pries into the question of successor of Dr Margaret Cha... Read more

11th FRCN Annual Lecture: Obadiah Mailafia and the Long Shadows of the Sardauna of Sokoto

Posted By: adminon: October 29, 2016In: GovernanceTags: AU, Bishop Gabriel Ganaka, Dr Aminu Yusuf Usman, Dr Obed Mailafia, Dr Yima Sen, Facebook, FRCN, Google, Kaduna State, Kannywood, Lai Mohammed, Mohammadu Buhari, Nollywood, Samson Shuaib, Sardauna, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sokoto State, UN, Yakubu LameNo CommentsViews:

It was a case of the Sardauna of Sokoto and only Premier of the defunct Northern Nigeria is dead but long live the Sardauna last Thursday at the 11th Annual Lecture of the Federal Rad... Read more

Fact-check: Is Africa’s entire GDP equal to that of France? By Lee Mwitial

Posted By: adminon: October 25, 2016In: SpectacleTags: African, Barack Obama, Canada, CHINA, France, GDP, Hollande, Kenya, PPP, UN, USNo CommentsViews:

As US president Barack Obama’s term ticks down, he has been keen to highlight his legacy. This includes his achievements in Africa, where his father hailed from. Speaking recently to an audi... Read more