CHINA Archives - Intervention

Amb Nicholas Ella, Nura Rimi As a Window on 8 New Perm Secs in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 25, 2023In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Africa, CHINA, Egypt, Gen Joe Garba, Gen. Murtala Mohammed, Henry Kissinger, India, London, Nigerian foreign service, Nigeria’s neighbours, Prof Bolaji Akinyemi, US1 CommentViews:

Correction It has become necessary to correct two impressions created by this story, based on calls from readers. (1) This story did not imply that Ambassadors Nicholas Ella and Nura Rimi ar... Read more

Henry Kissinger at 100

Posted By: adminon: May 05, 2023In: LifeworldTags: CHINA, Detente, Kissinger on the war of the sexes, Nixon, Quincy Adams, United States, VietnamNo CommentsViews:

It doesn’t seem there will be any time soon when opinion about Henry Kissinger will not be divided about his person and role in the world on account of his pre-eminence in intellectualising... Read more

Strongest 105 Universities in the Social Science Subjects in the 2023 World University Subject Ranking

Posted By: adminon: March 22, 2023In: BookspaceTags: Africa, CHINA, Decoloniality, Global knowledge production, Latin America, Middle East, QS Subject ranking, UK, USNo CommentsViews:

It is time to get more insights into how well or not too well particular universities are teaching particular courses as QS World University Ranking releases its 2023 Subject Ranking. It is... Read more

What Has This Thoroughfare Got to Do With February 2023 in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: January 22, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, CHINA, Peter Obi, Radical development idiom, Zoning1 CommentViews:

The cover picture and subject matter of this piece comes from China. It was used by even a non-Nigerian newspaper to illustrate the coming emptiness of streets in China in the wake of its de... Read more

See How Older Men and Women Have Taken Over the World

Posted By: adminon: November 21, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Angela Alvarez, Brazil, CHINA, Latin Grammy, Malaysia, NIGERIA, RussiaNo CommentsViews:

Officially, age is a protected characteristic, meaning that it is out of sync to go about asking people about their age as a requirement for this or that. But that is the official narrative.... Read more

How Did Nigeria Perform in the Just Released 2023 THE World University Ranking?

Posted By: adminon: October 12, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Africa, Australia, CHINA, Oxford, SOAS, UI, UK, UNILAG, University of Cape Town, USNo CommentsViews:

The Times Higher Education, (THE), one of the six or so conducting its own world ranking of universities, is out with the 2023 exercise. There is nothing earth shaking in it as the United Ki... Read more

The Bridge That Can Tell the Future

Posted By: adminon: August 22, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, CHINA, IMF, Xinhua, ZambiaNo CommentsViews:

The cover picture is from Chinese News Agency, Xinhua, featuring President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia in Southern Africa (third from right). He was on tour of the Kafue Bulk Water Supply P... Read more

Democracy, Populism or Revolution: Options Towards A New World Order

Posted By: adminon: August 05, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: #EndSARS, Arab Spring, BLM, CHINA, Churchill, Peter Drucker, Russia, The Bastille Prison, The Rajapaska dynasty, the “Butcher of the Congo”, Trumpism, “Yellow Vest”No CommentsViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki The storming of the Presidential Palace in Colombo by thousands of Sri Lankans last month brings to mind the historic storming of the Bastille Prison outside Paris... Read more

Irreversibly Damaged ‘Rain Maker’ Or Will the Sun Shine Again for the Lion of Bourdillion?

Posted By: adminon: July 23, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Aradite, Atiku Abubakar, Chief Bode George, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, CHINA, Muslim-Muslim ticket, Peter Obi, Russia, The Western world, Transformation Agenda, ‘Astronomer’s calamity’, ‘Rain maker’No CommentsViews:

By his self-understanding as a lion in the Nigerian political forest, the past one week must have come to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as a shock. The lion is rarely caught off-guard or easily messed... Read more

Commodification of Elective Offices and Democratisation in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 10, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, APC, Asia, CHINA, Cuba, Dr. Umaru Dikko, Fourth Republic, Francis Fukuyama, Illiberalism, Iran, Latin America, Margaret Thatcher, Middle East, MKO Abiola, PDPNo CommentsViews:

By Aminu Habibu Jahun Slightly over two decades after the take-off of the Fourth Republic, democratic rule has been so grotesquely disfigured in the hands of a few ‘democratic suitors... Read more