By Ambassador Usman Sarki Nigeria’s participation in the recently held BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, had rekindled the debate about the country’s leadership role in... Read more
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
Last week, it broke the record of maintaining the Number One position for the second year running on The Guardian newspaper’s league table of UK universities. Not only did it do so, the rank... Read more
BRICS is in the news this week. For a long time to come, it will be in the news, more so for Africa. As the most unintended biting critique of the ‘Clash of Civilisations’ paradigm, the idea... Read more
The 27th World Congress of Political Science is underway in Buenos Aires, Brazil, with Africa set to dominate the panel on The Politics of New Resource Discoveries in the “Post-resourc... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja There is a point about the late Raymond Dokpeshi warranting this tribute. Otherwise, his associates and all those who interacted with him closely have said all that ought to... Read more
Nigeria is plugging into global health governance with the case for the declaration of Noma disease as one of the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Ni... Read more
At no other time and on no other issue has punditry become such a dangerous pursuit as on the outcome of the recent presidential poll in Nigeria. The danger of being (mis)read either as an ‘... Read more
By Yusuf Bangura The African Giant, Burna Boy, will grace this year’s opening ceremony of the UEFA Champions League Final in Istanbul on June 10th, 2023 according to a UEFA tweet to that eff... Read more
Robert Kaplan’s piece, The Coming Anarchy was a hit when it was published in 1994. Of course, it was a classic exercise in imaginative geographies but it was and still is the kind of stuff t... Read more
