China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an ambitious programme to connect Asia with Africa and Europe via land and maritime networks along six corridors with the aim of improving regional integration, increasing trade and...
Three men have been rescued from a tiny Pacific island after writing a giant SOS sign in the sand that was spotted from above, authorities say. The men had been missing in the Micronesia...
If your team member in a football match gives away an advantage, or scores an own goal, it is morally incumbent on them to retrieve the advantage or cancel out the own goal by...
Raphaela Mueller was strolling through Walmart on Saturday morning when a brief glimpse of two other shoppers in the Marshall, Minn., store stopped her dead in her tracks. Fighting through disbelief that nearly rendered...
Honourable Yakubu Dogara, as House Speaker spent all his time in the 8th NASS sabotaging the efforts of the APC federal government. Together with the President of the then Senate, Bukola Saraki, they almost...
My Dear brother Nelson Egware On Tuesday, you made a post on your Facebook page to the effect that (in your words) “Hon. Thomas Ereyitomi didn’t handle Akpabio well at all.” You went further...
It is a show of shame isn’t it, what is going on at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)? Established in the year 2000 to assuage the fears of the people of the Niger Delta and...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a two-time finance minister in Nigeria, presented her manifesto before the members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Wednesday, as she asks to be selected as the next director-general. After a...
Some of the world’s richest and most influential politicians, celebrities, tech moguls and companies were the subject of a massive Twitter hack on Wednesday. Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, Kim Kardashian...
Given the nature and scale of the demands being placed on modern states, it is clear that “business as usual” will no longer suffice, even if it remains the easiest option. For citizens in...
A man joined the military institution as a young man. He fought a war, came out unscathed; rose through the ranks to become an Army general, was a military administrator, Army secretary, Military governor,...
It was Henry Kissinger, former US diplomat, Secretary of State and National Security Adviser under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, who said that “whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately”. From the look...
By subsuming the UK’s renowned international-development agency under the country’s diplomatic apparatus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson claims to be looking out for the British taxpayer. In fact, he is striking a severe blow to...
The World Trade Organization has an irreplaceable role to play in transforming countries’ economic prospects and the lives of people around the world. Although the COVID-19 crisis has brought the organization’s deteriorating health into...
NIDO, Ghana chapter, and the Government of Ghana on Monday reacted to the attacks on Nigerian residential buildings in that country. The Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation (NIDO), Ghana chapter, and the Government of Ghana...
Ex-international Emmanuel Babayaro speaks on his long expedition from active football to becoming a social crusader. Emmanuel Hyacinth Babayaro is a man of multiple parts and this is how he put it in his...
