Egypt 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

Oxford University Heading for a Decade Long, Uninterrupted No. 1 in THE Global Ranking

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2023In: Policy & GovernanceTags: California, Chicago, Egypt, Epistemological hegemony, Harvard, MIT, NIGERIA, Oxford, SOUTH AFRICA, Stanford, THE, UCLNo CommentsViews:

UK’s Oxford University is heading for a decade long, uninterrupted number One position on The Higher Education (THE) global ranking. It has been in that position for the eight year running w... Read more

In Praise of Kano, the Hope and Glory of Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: May 13, 2023In: SpectacleTags: 'Melting pot', Egypt, England, Germany, Kano City, Mali, Northern Nigeria, Senegal, SudanNo CommentsViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki Nigeria and West Africa owe so much to Kano. I write to celebrate Kano in the panegyric to this ancient city in the heart of the Central Sudan. I praise the peace a... Read more

Fake Cough Syrup Scandal in The Gambia Sends Fears Across West Africa, Especially Huge Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: October 09, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: BBC, Egypt, Garri, NDLEA, NIGERIA, Semovita, The GambiaNo CommentsViews:

The BBC is reporting what could become another public health crisis in West Africa given the similarity of attitudes, pharmaceutical network and institutional norms across the region. It is... Read more

Abdulrazak Gurnah, Not Ngugi Wa Thiongo!

Posted By: adminon: October 12, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Chimamanda Adichie, Egypt, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Nuruddin Fara, US, Wole SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:

The Africans, however defined, have their own idea of which African writer should win the Nobel Prize on Literature. The Swedish Academy which decides who wins have their own idea of which A... Read more

Tanzanian Writer, Abdulrazak Gournah, Brings 2021 Nobel Prize on Literature to Africa

Posted By: adminon: October 07, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Egypt, Postcolonial theory, Tanzania, ZimbabweNo CommentsViews:

The fiction writer, Abdulrazak Gournah from Tanzania has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy hinged his victory on his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration o... Read more

History, Historiography and the Nigerian Condition

Posted By: adminon: August 24, 2020In: BookspaceTags: Archaeology, Edward Gibbon, Egypt, International Relations, Mega Chad, Roman Empire, UNESCO SitesNo CommentsViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki Where the revolutions of a mere sixty years cannot be correctly traced and accurately rendered, it becomes impossible to fathom how the events of centuries and mill... Read more

Occupy the NASS If SP Won’t Explain Borrowing Epidemic – PRP

Posted By: adminon: December 20, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Egypt, IGR, Kaduna State Government, Occupy Movement, Senate President Ahmed Lawan, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

Occupy politics may have arrived big time in Nigeria at last. The People’s Redemption Party, (PRP) is urging Nigerians to occupy the National Assembly should the Senate President and the Sen... Read more

Egypt and South Africa Leaves Nigeria, the Third of the Power Houses, Behind

Posted By: adminon: July 07, 2019In: BookspaceTags: 'Undue Radicalism', Egypt, QS World University Ranking, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

The BBC, for example, calls Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa the African continent’s power houses. Of the three, only Nigeria is completely missing from the list of one of the most recognised... Read more

What Can Be Done About Nigeria’s Poorly Performing University System?

Posted By: adminon: March 12, 2019In: BookspaceTags: 'brain drain', 'brain exchange', Egypt, Malaysia, SciVal, SOUTH AFRICA, Times Higer Education, UNESCO dataNo CommentsViews:

The university system in Nigeria is in shambles, That appears to be the consensus, from academic staff to the government, to employers and to platforms of popular culture such as this online... Read more