From last edition Yusuf’s deputy, Abubakar Shekau, took over and escalated a suicide bombing campaign. The Navy thesis also notes that “the actions of BH, along with other militant groups such as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), have reduced the country’s oil production, displacing NigeriaContinue Reading
Prof. Al-Bishak, Member of the Order of the Niger (MON), is a man with multiple personalities having so many feathers to his hat. For decades, a famed journalist, brilliant newspaper columnist and notable Editorial Consultant, he has worked with The Triumph, The Statesman, The Guardian, Daily Times and the NewContinue Reading
Having worked with multidisciplinary teams during my PhD at the Department of Engineering of the University of Leicester and postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Electric Power Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), I decided to experiment the acceptability of a multidisciplinary team in Engineering departmentsContinue Reading
When one thinks of a public intellectual and a diplomat extra-ordinary, the person to whom the mind races is no other than Professor Bolaji Akinwande Akinyemi. You look right, you look left and you concentrate the mind on the centre, the picture that hits you is that of Professor BolajiContinue Reading
By William Blum Before there was Edward Snowden, William Binney and Thomas Drake … before there was Bradley Manning, Sibel Edmonds and Jesselyn Radack … there was Philip Agee. What Agee revealed is still the most startling and important information about U.S. foreign policy that any American government whistleblower hasContinue Reading
Factors inhibiting Access to the Court Notwithstanding the clear provision of Article 10 (d) (ii) of the Protocol on the Court as amended, on access rules to the court, there are other factors that inhibit access to the ECOWAS Court of Justice. The first constraint is the geographical location ofContinue Reading
American journalist, Gordon Duff, indeed once saw tomorrow. Yet when he wrote in 2011 about a conspiratorial plan by “outside powers” to destabilize Nigeria and balkanize it, not many took him seriously. But 10 years on what he said is fast becoming a sad reality as many now feared thatContinue Reading