It is now trite to say the world is under siege. But the siege cannot last forever. A multiplicity of efforts are going in too many places and levels that the world will prevail. How soon th... Read more
King Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand is on what might be called a Coronavirus holiday and in the grand style typical of monarchs. The pandemic did not stop the King from embarking on a kingl... Read more
Whether it was invented or mutated naturally, Coronavirus has acted as a change agent in a magnitude nobody anticipated. (Let’s quickly qualify this statement by recognising that students of... Read more
Amazon, the online global supermarket is offering more so as for its workers to work extra hours as the demand for its services rise with the lock down in most global cities. Leveraging on i... Read more
The Intriguing Politics of the Fall of Tidjane Thiam, the African Financial Whiz kid, in Switzerland
The Swiss society, comments a well located observer, is like many societies, not open enough. One moment, says the commentator, you’re a hero but only not to be Swiss enough in another momen... Read more
Italy, Spain, Switzerland and France are, by now, completely shut down. These are some of the most dramatic cases. There are others in Asia. Unless African leaders have a joker, it would not... Read more
Top Canadian universities such as The University of British Columbia, McGill University, The University of Toronto amongst others are said to be reeling from their share of loss in the Ukrai... Read more
Whether the United States is a declining power has been a subject of a long debate since the mid 1980s. It could be said that the intervention of the late Prof Susan Strange in that debate i... Read more
Sierra Leone is set to announce its position on the decision of Francophone countries adopting the single West African currency, Eco. It will do this on January 16th, 2020 shortly after a me... Read more
Iran-US relations remains the dominant headline stuff across the world, five days after the targeted killing of Iranian General, Qassem Soleimani, in an American drone strike. This time, it... Read more
