Olamide Samuel

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Olamide Samuel
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Born
Olamide Mobolaji Samuel

(1992-09-04) 4 September 1992 (age 31)
Lagos, Nigeria
Education Babcock University, University of Buckingham
Occupation(s)Security expert, Consultant
Known forAttaining PhD at 25years old

Olamide Mobolaji Samuel (born 4 September 1992) is a Nigerian arms control, nuclear policy and international security expert. [1] He is a political and strategic advisor on arms control and a Senior Teaching Fellow at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS University of London. [2] [3]

Life

Samuel was born in Lagos on 4 September 1992. He is from the Yagba-East local government area of Kogi State, Nigeria. He received a B.Sc in International Law and Diplomacy in 2013 from Babcock University and MA in Security, Intelligence and Diplomacy in 2014 from University of Buckingham. [4] Samuel later received a PhD in Security and Intelligence Studies in 2019. [5] At 25 years old, Samuel was widely reported as the youngest African to obtain a PhD in National Security Studies. [6] [7]

Samuel is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS University of London and the coordinator of SOAS' disarmament project at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, until 2021. [8] In 2020, Samuel was appointed as a member of the security task force in the Vatican COVID-19 Commission created by Pope Francis [9] and is an outspoken supporter of the EndSARS movement against the Nigerian government in 2020 [10] and also criticized U.S President Donald Trump for holding the NewSTART treaty hostage to trilateral negotiations. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "Olamide Samuel | Al Jazeera News | Today's latest from Al Jazeera". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  2. ↑ "Dr Olamide M Samuel | Staff | SOAS University of London". www.soas.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  3. ↑ kg91. "Dr Olamide Samuel — University of Leicester". www2.le.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-09-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ "Agency, Africa, and the Atom". Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
  5. ↑ "Dr Olamide Samuel". Towards a Third Nuclear Age. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
  6. ↑ "25-Year-Old Olamide Samuel Becomes Africa's First PhD Holder In National Security". 21 April 2018. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
  7. ↑ "Africa's first PhD holder in National Security Strategy – Welcome to Lolas Reality". lolasreality.com. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
  8. ↑ "Olamide Samuel". Green European Journal. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
  9. ↑ "Podcast: Pope Francis assembled a coronavirus taskforce. What's next?". America Magazine. 2020-04-22. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
  10. ↑ Samuel, Olamide (2020-10-27). "Nigeria: Livestreaming Lekki - Digital Evidence of #EndSARS Shooting in Nigeria Makes Impunity Much Harder". allAfrica.com. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
  11. ↑ Samuel, Olamide. "The unintended consequences of Trump's nuclear gambit". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
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