CHINA | Intervention

It is Nigerian PS, Amb Nick Ella’s Reflective 60th Birthday

Posted By: adminon: April 12, 2025In: People in ActionTags: CHINA, India, Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Nigerian foreign service, Permanent Secretary, USNo CommentsViews:

Bureaucrats, technocrats, diplomats, other colleagues, friends and relations will gather in Abuja, Nigeria later today (April 12th, 2025) to mark the 60th birthday of Ambassador Nick Ella.... Read more

Few Defective Factory Products Or a Flood of Fake Rechargeable Fans into Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: January 17, 2024In: GovernanceTags: Asian Tigers, C. J. Electronics Superstores, CHINA, East Asia, Jikwoyi, LG outlet, Nigerian salesmen, RechargeableNo CommentsViews:

Is it a case of few factory defective products that came as part of a huge bulk from East Asia and which somehow found their way into the market or is it a case of large scale injection of f... Read more

Indian Foreign Affairs Minister to Speak @ NIIA

Posted By: adminon: January 13, 2024In: GovernanceTags: CHINA, Global agenda, Global South, India, NIIA, westNo CommentsViews:

The global agenda is in a flux. The much talked about ‘liberal international order’ is unravelling. The world is experiencing what most scholars of world politics would call hegemonic succes... Read more

Hurray! Prof Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi, the Realist-Idealist Scholar, is 82

Posted By: adminon: January 07, 2024In: People in ActionTags: CHINA, Concept of Medium Powers, Israel, NADECO, NIIA, NPSA, Realism, TAC, UI, UNILAG, USA, Western powersNo CommentsViews:

By Hassan A. Saliu Professor Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi, the son of a priest and politician, is an academic colossus whose impacts on various aspects of Nigerian life cannot be captured in a... Read more

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

Posted By: adminon: November 25, 2023In: 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: People in ActionTags: 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, Russia1 CommentViews:

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