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The West Still Leads in the 2026 CWUR, With an Upset in Africa

Posted By: adminon: June 01, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Egypt, France, Japan, Makerere University, QS, SOUTH AFRICA, THE, Tsinghua University, UI, UK, University of the Witwatersrand, USNo CommentsViews:

The 2026 version of the Center for World University Ranking (CWUR) is out and the United States of America, the UK, Japan and France are still the global knowledge powers if the ranking exer... Read more

Who is Being Prepared to Thrive in a Multipolar University?

Posted By: adminon: May 31, 2026In: BookspaceTags: Asia, Australia, Canada, EU, Global South, Iran, Japan, Manhattan Project, Middle East, MIT, Patrice Lumumba University, Russia, Singapore, The Humboldtian model, The Manhattan Project, UK, US, Western EuropeNo CommentsViews:

By Carlos Vargas The received story about global higher education goes like this: for most of the 20th century, knowledge flowed outwards from a small number of research-intensive universi... Read more

Why You Probably Aren’t Washing Your Towels Often Enough

Posted By: adminon: January 14, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Cardiff University, Fungi, India, Japan, Salmonella, Shigella, Simmons University Center for Hygiene and Health in Home and Community in Boston, The Global Hygiene Council, The International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene, UK, USNo CommentsViews:

BBC Essentials List makes an issue of a habit that many might not have accord that seriousness By Grace Tyrrell The towels we dry ourselves with get a lot of use and pick up a lot of microbe... Read more

What, Where Nigeria Should Be By Now and Whose Responsibility It Is?

Posted By: adminon: September 29, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Afenifere, Arewa, Brazil, Britain, Cuba, Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, Ijaw National Youths Congress, India, Japan, Middle Belt Forum, Nation building, NELSON MANDELA, Ohanaeze, Ruling class, Singapore, South-South Forum, USA, YorubaNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Festus Iyayi It is another independence anniversary and time to turn to Prof Festus Iyayi for an idea of what and where Nigeria should be by now and whose responsibility it is to tak... Read more

Selling a US Steel to Japan’s NIPPON is Dangerous But Selling Ajaokuta is an Achievement in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: December 31, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: America’s industrial economy, Chinese subsidies, Economic nationalism, Foreign capital, Japan, NIPPON SteelNo CommentsViews:

Originally titled NIPPON’s Purchase of US Steel is a Dangerous Move, this piece draws attention again to the elite crisis of mission in Nigeria By Miquel Vila Nippon Steel’s bid to purchase... Read more

African Players to a Rescue That Sadly Didn’t Happen

Posted By: adminon: December 19, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Black players, Didier Deschamps, French team, Japan, NIGERIA, Sierra LeoneNo CommentsViews:

The French coach Didier Deschamps did something amazing and historic in his substitutions against Argentina: He took out all the white players (apart from Lloris, the goalkeeper) and fielded... Read more

Intervention Submits to Bombardment on Kolawole’s “Build, Operate and Transfer Nigeria”

Posted By: adminon: December 21, 2019In: SpectacleTags: 'Dubai', 'The Trouble With Nigeria', Dutch, Emiratis, FAAC, Japan, Jos, Lokoja, Middle – Belt, NDDC, Niger Delta, Re-colonisation, Sheikh Al MaktoumNo CommentsViews:

The number of sites where this article by Nigerian columnist, Simon Kolawole, was circulated a few days back suggested that it must be redundant to republish it when Intervention chose to de... Read more

Could Donald Trump Actually Be an Emperor Without Clothes on North Korea?

Posted By: adminon: July 05, 2017In: FlashbackTags: CHINA, Japan, Kim Jong Un, NATO, North Korea, Saddam HusseinNo CommentsViews:

Find out in this razor-sharp piece what might have landed US President, Donald Trump, in what looks like a strategic dilemma over North Korea. To move is to risk millions of lives and, in fa... Read more

Reloading Nigeria’s Risk Baggage in 2017, (Part 3)

Posted By: adminon: December 28, 2016In: GovernanceTags: 21st Century Scramble for Africa, Africa Mining Vision, AFRICOM, Battleground Africa, Brazil, CHINA, France intervention in Mali, Gaddafi, India, Japan, Margreat Carol Lee, NATO, NIGERIA, Russia, USNo CommentsViews:

Reloading Nigeria’s Risk Baggage in 2017, (Part 3) The third and the conclusion of a three-part Special Report discuss the ‘Battleground Africa’ risk baggage in relation to Nigeria. In bring... Read more

How Global Primacy Over China Will Tutor Trump on Africa

Posted By: adminon: November 15, 2016In: SpectacleTags: Africa, AFRICOM, Australia, CHINA, DONALD TRUMP, DRC, Europe, FDI, FOCAC, George W. Bush, Germany, GWOT, Hilary Clinton, IMF, Iraq, James Woolsey, Japan, Kenyan, Obama, USNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Punditry is already getting it wrong, going hysterical about how Donald doesn’t have one idea about Africa, how empty of Africa his own map of the world is. Others are afraid... Read more