Sit Down and Govern – Frank Ofili
Sit Down And Govern Since I became an adult every person who comes to power in Nigeria always spends tens of millions of tax payers money on foreign trips to woo foreign investors. Except...
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A New Multi-literalism
How the United States can rejuvenate the global institutions it created – By Gordon Brown America is back.” That was the message from U.S. President Joe Biden, the most internationalist of recent U.S. presidents,...
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Niger’s Coup and America’s Choice
Washington Should Push for Mediation, Not Military Intervention – By Hannah Rae Armstrong On July 26, Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum was detained at his home by his own presidential security force. Within 48 hours,...
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The Roots of the Global South’s New Resentment
How Rich Countries’ Selfish Pandemic Responses Stoked Distrust – By Mark Suzman This past June, at the closing ceremony of the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa...
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On Solid Mineral deposits in the North
The northern political establishment must come out with the truth, and nothing but the whole truth, about the solid minerals – gold, lithium, uranium etc – being illegally mined up north in collaboration with...
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Dear Honourable Minister Wike
How does it sound to you that your very first public statement as a cabinet Minister is to issue threats to a citizenry already distressed and depressed by the actions of the government you...
Dear Obidients and Atikulators – by Frank Ofili
Let me ask you a question. Let me leave Kwakwansiyya out of it. They were never there. So, dear Obidients and Artikulators, my question goes thus: what if the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT)...
Floating Exchange Rate: The Lessons not Learnt – by Frank Ofili
In his inaugural speech on May 29, 2023, President Tinubu hinted that the multiple exchange rate system which had hitherto been in operation in Nigeria would be collapsed and unified into one. Mr. President...
As I Was Saying
This government actually started in 2015. It was a partnership. The principal actors sat down and negotiated the terms of the partnership. They came out with a deed of partnership known only to them....
Still On Emefiele – by Frank Ofili
I have just heard with the corner of one ear that the suspended CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele has been granted bail for N20 million and one surety. Really? N20 million only? With the humongous...
The story of Manchester United’s No. 7 – by Elliot Whitelaw
Across the world of football, there really are only a few numbers that represent more than just a number on the back of a shirt. Sometimes, they transcend the sport and showcase sheer greatness....
Twitter Rival, Threads, Records 10 Million Users Within Hours of Launch
More than 10 million people have signed up for Threads, Meta’s rival to Twitter, within the first few hours of its launch, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday. The app went live...
Meta launches Instagram Threads in a direct challenge to Twitter
KEY POINTS Threads is a text-based messaging app that looks very similar to Twitter. People will be able to use their Instagram usernames on Threads and follow the same accounts on Threads as they...
There’s No Such Thing as a Great Power – By Phillips P. O’Brien
How a Dated Concept Distorts Geopolitics In the lead-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, most Western analysts saw Moscow as a great power and Kyiv as a lesser one. Diminished though it was from...
Will Russia’s Break With the West Be Permanent?
Putin Has Created a Rupture That Will Be Difficult to Repair – By Michael Kimmage and Maria Lipman The war that is currently raging between Russia and Ukraine began in 2014. It started with a...
Prigozhin’s Rebellion, Putin’s Fate, and Russia’s Future
A Conversation With Stephen Kotkin Stephen Kotkin is a preeminent historian of Russia and the author of an acclaimed three-volume biography of Joseph Stalin (the third volume is forthcoming). Executive Editor Justin Vogt spoke with him...
