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Eghosa Emmanuel Osaghae is a Nigerian political scientist and academic. He serves as the Director-General at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), a professor of political science at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and was a professor of political studies at the now-defunct University of Transkei, South Africa.

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We need to develop a federal political culture of accommodation, resilience, tolerance and win-win for everyone.

Two years on, we are not close to what the party promised to achieve in its campaign.

The NIIA undertakes a scientific study of international affairs all the time.

Development is absolute security of human beings and a right of individuals.

There is no country else in the world that is exactly like Nigeria.

We cannot simply borrow the federal systems of other countries and expect them to work here.

The states are mostly dysfunctional and have failed to deliver dividends of democracy.

We need to get away from the idea that federalism is just about the constitution.

If the states were working these evaluations, appraisals would be fairer.

The magic of federalism lies in the determination to make it work.

If we don't de-colonise our right to autonomy and self-determination, Nigeria will never develop.

The whole mandate of the NIIA is tied to the promotion of the understanding of international affairs by government and the citizens of Nigeria.

The NIIA is a research think tank.

Before our contact with Europe, Africa had its own self determined part of development and that is the trajectory African society pursued, but the story changed as soon as Africa started to have contact with Europe.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eghosa Osaghae (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.