| Intro | Nigerian professor of political science |
| Is | Diplomat |
| From | Nigeria |
| Kind | Politics |
| Gender | male |
| Delivery | 4 January 1942, Ilesa |
| Age | 79 years |
Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi (born 4 January 1942) is a Nigerian professor of political science who was his nation’s Exterior Affairs Minister from 1985 to late 1987. He’s chairman of the Nationwide Suppose Tank.
Adolescence, tutorial profession, and private life
Akinyemi was born in Ilesa, in what’s now Osun State. He attended Igbobi School in Yaba from 1955 till 1959, Christ’s Faculty Ado Ekiti from 1960 to 1961, Temple College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, from 1962 to 1964, Fletcher Faculty of Legislation and Diplomacy, Tufts College, Medford, Massachusetts, US, 1964 to 1966, and Trinity School, Oxford, England, from 1966 till 1969.
He was a visiting professor on the Graduate Institute of Worldwide Research in Geneva and on the Diplomacy Coaching Programme, College of Nairobi, Kenya, each in 1977. He was Regents Lecturer on the College of California, Los Angeles, US in 1979, Professor of Political Science on the College of Lagos, from 1983 till 1985, and Visiting Fellow, St John’s School, Cambridge, England in 1984.
Akinyemi was Director-Normal of the Nigerian Institute of Worldwide Affairs (NIIA) from 1975 till 1983. The NIAA is an organisation specializing in Nigerian overseas coverage; whereas he was Director-Normal, it was concerned in selling Nigerian-Angolan relations, amongst different issues.
He married Rowena Jane Viley in 1970. They’ve one son and three daughters.
Time period as Exterior Affairs Minister
Akinyemi was appointed Minister of Exterior Affairs by navy chief Ibrahim Babangida in 1985. Whereas on this place, he originated the Technical Help Corps (TAC), a program which despatched Nigerian professionals abroad to have interaction in volunteer work. It was designed to “promote the nation’s picture and standing as a serious contributor to Third World and notably African growth”. He additionally got here up with the idea of the “Live performance of Medium Powers”.
In his place as Minister of Exterior Affairs, Akinyemi headed quite a few Nigerian delegations. Among the many delegations he headed had been his nation’s delegations to the United Nations Normal Meeting Session (1985), the Organisation of African Unity, Council of Ministers Session (1986), the Non–Aligned International Ministers Convention (1986), the United Nations Normal Meeting Annual Session (1986), the United Nations Normal Meeting Particular Session on the Important Financial Scenario in Africa (1986), the Price range Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African Unity (1987), the Strange Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African Unity (1987), the United Nations Normal Meeting Session (1987), and to the Further–Strange Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African Unity dedicated to African debt (1987).
In 1987, Akinyemi said his assist for Nigeria growing nuclear weapons. He referred to the proposal because the “black bomb,” and stated that “Nigeria has a sacred duty to problem the racial monopoly of nuclear weapons.”
Later life
Through the short-lived Third Republic of 1993, he known as on the navy to overthrow Ernest Shonekan’s administration; Sani Abacha, Protection Minister on the time, later did so, and assumed the place of head of state. Akinyemi was later amongst those that opposed Abacha’s regime.
In August 2007, President Umaru Yar’Adua appointed him to the newly created Electoral Reform Panel.
