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DIRECTOR-GENERAL
Professor Bola A. Akinterinwa is a Sorbonnard. He read International
Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies, Paris 6e;
International Law, at the Institute of Advanced International
Studies of the University of Paris 2; and Contemporary International
Relations and Diplomatic History, at the University of Paris 1,
Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, from 1973 through 1983. He obtained his
degrees with distinctions. He had a double promotion in the
International Law Class in the University of Paris 2 and obtained
his PhD degree with 'Special Commendations,' at the University of
Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne.
An Embassy Translator at the Embassy of Nigeria, Paris, in 1984, and
a Ford Foundation Fellow at the University of Maryland Foreign
Policy Process in 1989, he has, since 1985, been a Research Fellow
at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos, where he
has, at various times, received three special Letters of
Commendation from the Management of the Institute, for his
scholarship and patriotic activities. He is currently the Acting
Director-General of the Institute and has introduced a new research
focus: strategic in analysis, applied in foreign policy calculations
and needs, and beneficial in final outcome.
Former Editorial Page Editor of, and a Monday/Sunday Columnist
(Vie Internationale) with, ThisDay Newspapers since 1996,
he was Member of the Editorial Board, from 1989 to 1994, and Editor,
from 1994 to 1999, of the Nigerian Journal of International
Affairs. He is author of several chapters in books and articles
in learned and reputable journals of international affairs. He has
also authored and edited several books. They include the following:
1989: Author, The United States Congress, the President and the
Making of Policy Toward Angola: Self Interest Versus Public Spirit
(University of Maryland School of Public Affairs,
Working Paper No.10, July 1989), 74
pages. .
1992: Co-editor, Nigeria and its Immediate Neighbours:
Constraints and Prospects of Sub-Regional Security in the 1990s
(Lagos: Pumark Nigeria Limited, 1992), 288 pages.
1999: Author, Nigeria and France: The Dilemma of Thirty-Five Years
of Relationship (Ibadan, Nigeria: Vantage Publishers, 2000 ©, 1999),
282 pages.
2000: Editor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Struggle for True
Federalism (Ibadan: Vantage publishers, © 2000), 320 pp.
2001: Author, Nigeria: The Crises of Legitimacy and Survival
(Lagos: Pumark Educational Publishers, © 2001), 718 pp.
2001: Author, Nigeria and the World: Issues and Problems for the
Sleeping Giant (Lagos: Pumark Educational publishers, © 2001),
874 pp.
2004: Editor, Nigeria's New Foreign Policy Trust: Essays in
Honour of Ambassador Oluyemi Adeniji, CON (Ibadan: Vantage
publishers, © 2004), 517pp
2005: Editor, Nigeria and the Development of the African Union
(Ibadan: Vantage publishers, © 2005), 321 pp. .
2005: Editor, Nigeria and the United Nations Security Council
(Ibadan: Vantage publishers, © 2005), 476 pp.
2007: Editor, Nigeria's National Interests in Globalising World:
Further Reflections on Constructive and Beneficial Concentricism
published in three volumes:
Volume 1: Contending Issues in Nation Building (lbadan: BIP,
©,2007), 395 pp.
Volume 2: Foreign Policy Interests in the Innermost Circle (Ibadan:
BIP, © 2007),498 pp.
Volume 3: Nigeria's National Interests beyond Nigeria (Ibadan: BIP,
© 2007), 805 pp.
2010: Nigeria’s Citizen Diplomacy (Ibadan: BIP, © 2010), 256pp.
He was
appointed a Member of Governor Olusegun Agagu's development Think
Tank Committee in 2003. He was also appointed Special Assistant
to the Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Oluyemi
Adeniji, CON, in September 2003 and Special Assistant to the
Honourable Minister of Internal Affairs, Ambassador Oluyemi Adeniji,
CON, when he was redeployed to the Ministry of Internal Affairs
(later Ministry of Interior), on 21st June, 2006. He was
again re-appointed Special Assistant to the Honourable Minister of
Foreign affairs, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, CFR,
in August 2008 and occupied this position until Wednesday, 31st
March, 2010.
He was appointed a Member of the Governing Council of the
Polytechnic Ile-Oluji, Ondo State, in 2006. He is a member of
several professional organizations, including the Nigerian Institute
of International Affairs, Nigerian Society of International Law, of
which he was a Treasurer, Nigerian Political Science Association,
and African Association of Political Science.
He plays active part in church activities. He was given the
Special Services Award by the Celestial Church of Christ,
Washington D.C. for his Devoted Services in July 1989 and a
Certificate of Honour on April 5, 1999 by the Celestial
Church of Christ, International Headquarters, for his "Selfless and
Spiritual Services Rendered in Various Capacities." He was appointed
a Member of the Board of Trustees of the SBJ Oshoffa Foundation and
a member of the Pastor-in-Council of the Celestial Church of Christ,
World Wide on Saturday, August 9, 2003. In December 2006, he was
appointed a member of the Board of Trustees, Celestial Church of
Christ, World Wide, International Headquarters, Lagos and Assistant
Secretary to the same Board of Trustees in 2008.
During his student days in France, he played an active part in all
students' activities. When he was in Saint Joseph's College, Ondo,
he was Games Prefect and Basket Ball Captain. In France, he was
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