Aare Afe Babalola SAN Founder/President , ABUAD THE GEORGE FLOYD KILLING: DISSIMILARITIES BETWEEN NIGERIAN LAWS AND U.S LAWS (2) LAST week, I discussed the incidence of the George Floyd killing and implications of the criminal charges levied against Chauvin and the other 3 police officers who were complicit in his murder. I equally discussed the...Read More
Aare Afe Babalola SAN Founder/President , ABUAD NIGERIA’S INCREASING DEBT WORRISOME: USE RECOVERED LOOT AS ALTERNATIVE The origin of Nigeria’s external debt dates back to 1958 when a loan of US$28 million was obtained from the World Bank. The funds, which was made available to the Nigerian Railway Corporation, was for a five-year tenor to...Read More
Prof. E. Smaranda Olarinde, FCArb, FCAI. Ag. Vice Chancellor INTRODUCTION When the ravaging and rampaging Covid-19 pandemic broke out in Nigeria sometimes in February 2020, nobody, no institution, not even the World Health Organization (WHO), knew how far-reaching the devastating and debilitating effects of the invisible killer, which has claimed many lives and grounded the...Read More
Prof. E. Smaranda Olarinde FCArb, FCAI. Ag. Vice Chancellor, MESSAGE TO OUR DEAR ABUAD PARENTS/GUARDIANS/SPONSORS & STUDENTS Introduction: We are all too familiar with the deep concern and frustration the continued closure of educational institutions in the country since Monday, March 23, 2020 has visited on all stakeholders in nation’s Education sub-sector, including students, Faculty,...Read More
Aare Afe Babalola SAN Founder/President , ABUAD In the preceding editions, much of the focus has been on the medical response to the novel coronavirus disease, both in Nigeria and the world at large. It is, however, pertinent to consider the dire socio-economic consequences of Nigeria’s unpreparedness for this pandemic, with specific reference to Nigeria’s...Read More
Aare Afe Babalola SAN Founder/President , ABUAD PANDEMICS IN HISTORY : Was Nigeria Prepared for Covid-19? (2) LAST WEEK, I commenced a discussion on the novel Corona Virus Disease (Covid-19) which has dealt a huge blow on the world’s socio-economic structure. I detailed the chronology of pandemics which have, in times past, shaped human existence,...Read More
Professor E. Smaranda Olarinde FCArb., FCAI. Ag. Vice Chancellor Exploring ancestral wisdom to combat Covid-19 It is no longer news that the ravaging Covid-19 has changed the educational, political, and economic as well as the medical equations of the world. What will be the heart-warming news is that someone or some institutions have at last...Read More
Aare Afe Babalola SAN Founder/President , ABUAD PANDEMICS IN HISTORY: Was Nigeria Prepared for Covid-19? (1) It is no longer news that SARS-CoV-2, renamed Covid-19 by the World Health Organization on February 11, 2020, has taken the world by storm, transcending borders and geographical landscapes, defying orthodox treatments and holding several economies, first-world and third-world...Read More
ISSN: 2714 -3414 HOME Aim & Scope Journal of Contemporary International Relations and Diplomacy (JCIRD) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal, domiciled in the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Nigeria. The aim of JCIRD is to promote rigorously-researched original papers/articles that have not been published or submitted for...Read More
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