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The Resurgence And Rise Of Lukarawa: From Mercenaries To Militants In NorthWestern Nigeria.
While initially driven by financial gain as hired protectors, Lukarawa has adopted more aggressive tactics, including colluding with other militant groups in the Sahel, which may influence Lukarawa's increasingly extremist ideology, exploitation and the imposition of extremist dogma.
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President Trump's Second Term. What's At Stake For Africa?
The evolving U.S.-Africa dynamic under Trump’s second term presents challenges and opportunities, underscoring Africa’s need for a proactive approach. African leaders can use their agency to manage these shifts by pursuing partnerships aligning with their countries' national and regional goals.
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Africa’s Growing Food Crisis: A New Scramble For The Future Of The Continent.
Together, these agricultural and carbon credit deals have ignited talk of a “new scramble for Africa.” In some countries, foreign companies are controlling up to 20% of the land through long-term agreements, leaving local communities in a precarious position.
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South Africa Versus Israel At The ICJ
Charity, in this case, should begin on the continent. Africa and Africans could use South Africa's legal prowess to address our challenges on the world stage. There are several global challenges facing Africa that South Africa, one of Africa's most important countries, could help tackle.
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Could Àjàlá Travel Around Africa in 2023?
The recent announcements by Presidents Ruto and President Kagami to lift visa restrictions for all Africans in Kenya and Rwanda are a positive step that'll foster unrestricted intra-African movement.
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CISR Nigeria inducts five new fellows into the institute
* Press release compiled by Oluwakemi Oladipo, Abuja Nigeria The Corporate Institute of Strategic Research (CISR), Abuja has inaugurated five new fellow members into the institute as doctoral, associate, and professional
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An Alternate World-Order Is Being Built With BRICS
Navigating these challenges effectively will mean the emergence of BRICS as a force capable of shaping the global South's economic and geopolitical trajectory.
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Niger's Coup: Neocolonial Shadows and Regional Implications.
The recent coup in Niger has thrust a spotlight onto a complex web of underlying issues that have long shaped the trajectory of the Sahel region.
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DOMINION: Man’s Primordial Telos
The early man learned ‘ownership’ early on. He owned land, animals, and even other men, he literarily appropriated those things to himself. He had inadvertently discovered an existential telos: dominion! The quest to dominate led him to create families, communities, kingdoms, and empires.
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A Nigerian’s Experience of How Nigerians Process “No”
A culture of not processing ‘no’ properly lets people ignore all the red flags and pitfalls of embarking on an obviously perilous journey. It’s the same motive that convinces Nigerians to pray, pay, lie, and bribe their way through any situation that allows it.
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OUR BARE MINIMUM EXISTENCE
We are in the age of information, average doesn’t cut it anymore. Life by definition is a process of dying, we are at liberty to choose how that process flows. If we choose to live an average life, our children will come into a bare minimum world created by average men and women!
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I AM IN A LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP WITH MY COUNTRY.
The Presidency and our security services are not as proactive, that’s the vibe we get. Between the manipulations of the media and the half-truths of Lai Muhammed, we are left with more questions than answers
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WHITE, BLACK, AND ALL SHADES BETWEEN.
The classification is an attempt to understand humans along anthropological parameters. Immediately, a problem emerges the classifications are based solely on the looks and not the content of the characters of the people being classified. It's not even based on scientific or biological parameters.
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The new name of colonization; Chinese money.
Xi Jinping has set his sight on reviving the age-old Silk Road. Dubbed ‘The Belt and Road Initiative’ the Chinese hope to create a harmonized economic corridor linking the East with the West through strategic locations around the world.
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FOR THE PIUS NIGERIAN
That is the ‘Nigerian Factor’, for us, there is no danger until it's obviously too late. The truck accident in Onitsha also suffered from the Nigerian Factor, I am sure that the truck wasn’t well maintained (we are known for our acute lack of a maintenance culture)
