The Nigerian official addressing SFS-Q students.
Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar (SFS-Q) welcomed Prince Adetokunbo Kayode, Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Executive Vice Chairman of the Center For Peace and Security In Africa, to share his insights on “The Future of One Nigeria” to an audience at the SFS-Q campus on Monday.
SFS-Q hosted Prince Adetokunbo Kayode as part of the university’s on-going commitment to offer an open platform for knowledge sharing and provide its students and the community at large, an opportunity to engage with issues facing the local, regional and international community.
Prince Adetokunbo Kayode talked about the road that led to Nigeria’s current challenges and internal conflicts, and predicted that unless corruption is reduced and government systems become more efficient to support the vast needs of the people in the years to come, it will become a failed state.
Nigeria has vast mineral resources, the largest population in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as a leading economic-political role in West Africa with its substantial contributions to international peacekeeping. Despite this, it faces unmanageable problems including ethnic, religious, and regional identities that are lessening full allegiance to the state.
Prince Adetokunbo Kayode spoke about the increasing poverty, corruption, and growing violence in the North and South, coupled with the government’s inability to resolve the tensions, all of which suggest a possible dissolution of Nigeria.
Concluding his talk, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode presented Herb Howe, Professor of African Studies, SFS-Q, with a commemorative plaque to mark his visit. Herb Howe commented that “on behalf of SFS-Q, we would like thank Prince Adetokunbo Kayode for joining us here today and sharing his in-depth knowledge of the situation in Nigeria. Nigeria is an increasingly important state and its stability will help secure West Africa’s future”.
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