Freedom of expression has suffered an all time low across the world, says Article 19, the UK based global press rights monitor. Its December 2nd, 2019 report to that effect is blaming it on... Read more
As members of the power elite in Nigeria are lost in unproductive bickering along ethno-regional lines and while their leading ideologues such as Gov Nasir el-Rufai are still parroting slave... Read more
The radical moment that appears to have been peaking across Latin America is running the risk of reversal as the grand strategy of re-inserting right wing elements in power gathers momentum.... Read more
A big drama is, indeed, playing out in Brazil, with world scale significance. The release of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from prison is the crashing of a strategy of undermining what he repres... Read more
In length and width, it was not the toughest wall in history but it was the most symbolic wall as long as it existed. It was the most geopolitically significant wall which was not just divid... Read more
It is not clear why the Nigerian Air Force, (NAF) did not organise a much, more elaborate celebration of its winging of the first female combat pilot and first female helicopter pilot on Oct... Read more
112 global civil society platforms have taken a completely different position from that of certain powerful countries over Facebook’s End-to-End Security Plan. The organisations said in an O... Read more
Nigeria and South Africa have commenced putting recent ugly past behind themselves as detailed below so far by Johannesburg based online newspaper, the Daily Maverick. The report is republis... Read more
October 1st has the same significance for both China and Nigeria. It is their Independence Day, 1949 for China and 1960 for Nigeria. It means that China is older by eleven (11) years. Eleven... Read more
In this, arguably, the punchiest synthesis of the ‘confusion’ unfolding in the UK, the writer asks the potent question: Is Boris Johnson the death of Britain’s democracy? By Jon Allsop* Brit... Read more
