Jude Obuseh

Mr. Jude Obuseh is a fervent social commentator, life coach, tutor, columnist, blogger, author, peace researcher and advocate, and entrepreneur. He is the Executive Director of Conflict Prevention and Peace Building Initiative, CPPBI, a Nigerian based non-governmental organization committed to the prevention of violent conflicts in Africa. Jude is an alumnus of the Premier University of Ibadan from where he obtained a BSc in Political Science, an M.A in Peace and Conflict Studies, coupled with other certifications from other reputable - academic and professional - bodies. His core areas of research interests are, International Security Administration, Peace Building Strategies, Early Warning Mechanisms, Political Violence, Political Participation, and International Political History. Jude is an eclectic researcher and writer whose incisive works (articles, position papers et.al) on politics, security, peace, conflict and other topical themes are constantly syndicated on both local and international - academic and media - platforms. For more on Obuseh Jude and his works visit: www.cppbi.org; Tel: +2348168580211; E-mail: syncado2006@gmail.com.

What Common Sense Requires

If you sample the opinions of the so-called “most enlightened” segment of the populace as to what constitutes the most formidable challenge – out of a multitude - militating against Nigeria’s development and growth, the major answer that is likely to emanate from such an enquiry is “bad leadership”...

American Drones and Global Security

As America’s role as the policeman of the globe and sole guarantor of peace continues to expand, adopting a security strategy that will reduce all possible threats to its security forces to the barest minimum makes the use of Drones and other Unmanned systems the best option...

The Nigerian Police and National Security

The rising incidences of kidnappings, assassinations, terrorism and other acts of violence across Nigeria has elicited critical questions from Nigerians bordering on the readiness of the country’s security forces to rise up to the mounting threats...

Globalizing Nigeria’s War On Terror: Matters Arising

Since the onset of the insurgency in some parts of Nigeria’s North, the U.S has consistently offered some low level – mainly technical and tactical- support to Nigeria’s security forces in the form of organizing regular capacity building seminars, workshops and other talk shops for officers and men of the armed forces...

Pledge To Nigera My Country

Does this mean I have lost hope in Nigeria? God forbid! Then why are my mad? I am mad at the present directionless, disjointed system and its operators; mad at the pseudo, largely contested entity called the Nigerian state, together with its equally artificial copy-cat institutions that are as weak as they are cosmetic...

Off With These Impostors

The sad events of the past couple of days - which were reportedly orchestrated by some disgruntled members of the Edo State House Of Assembly - paint a horrible spectacle of the miserable depths to which some politicians are willing to descend...

Boko Haram: Changing Dynamics of an Insurgency

This piece analyses the burgeoning intensity of violence in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria, consequent to the apocalyptic campaigns of Boko Haram – a fundamentalist Islamist group that has been engaging the country’s security forces in an internecine war of attrition since 2010...

Negotiating With Boko Haram: Matters Arising

Nigerians are among some of the most reactionary people on planet earth; impulsive sentimentalist who wait until situations get out of hand before reacting; spectators of action who wait until the head is off before crying; Ostriches who bury their heads in the sand while things are falling randomly apart around them...

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