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 alike, to ransom. Besides its dire health implications, the COVID-19 pandemic has created a major...Read More

Professor E. Smaranda Olarinde, FCArb., FCAI.Ag Vice-Chancellor Getting Nigeria’s Tertiary Education System on its Feet Again That Nigeria’s Educational landscape has not been in the best of shapes since the deadly Covid-19 pandemic made an unwelcome incursion into the world in March 2020 is like stating the obvious. Even before the advent of Covid-19, Nigeria is a country where the yearly budgetary allocation for education is abysmally lower than the...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 publication elsewhere, whichare theoretical, empirical and policy oriented in diverse areas of international relations and...Read More

Professor E. Smaranda Olarinde, FCArb., FCAI. Ag Vice-Chancellor, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) INFORMATION TO PARENTS AND STUDENTS. In line with our well-known and treasured predictable Academic Calendar, the Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, ABUAD, was preparing to commence the Second Semester Examinations 2019/2020 Academic Session, in March. The Friday, March 20, 2020 directive by the National Universities Commission, (NUC) requested all tertiary institutions to close down academic activities and ask...Read More

THE ROLE OF TRADITIONAL RULERS – SANUSI THE GENIUS: A CASE STUDY (6) “Nigeria deserves an homegrown Constitution that will reflect our peculiarities”. In rounding off my discussions on the paramountcy of traditional rulership in pre-colonial and post-independent Nigeria, I consider it expedient to reiterate the need to accord monarchs and traditional chiefs across Nigeria the much-needed constitutional recognition in the running of governmental affairs across the country, particularly owing...Read More