SIRA, leading foreign relations Think Tank, gets new leadership
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…Elects Vanguard’s Owei Lakemfa President
The leading foreign relations Think Tank in Africa, the Society for International Relations Awareness (SIRA), has elected human rights activist, labour leader and author, Mr Owei Lakemfa as its new President.
Mr. Lakemfa who for over two decades has run two weekly columns on Nigeria and international affairs in the VANGUARD Newspapers, succeeds Professor Nuhu O. Yaqub, OFR, former Vice-Chancellor, University of Abuja, and Sokoto State University.
Disclosing this in a statement, Oseloka H. Obaze (OHO), Chairperson, Public Affairs Committee, said that the new Vice President is Colonel Wilson Ijide (retd), former Training Team Leader, Nigerian Army School of Infantry with wide experience in international peacekeeping. He has a PhD in Industrial/Organisational Psychology and lectures in the Department of Psychology, and Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies, Universi