Donald Trump is disrupting the world we knew in many ways and almost in all spheres. How far he will go and whether there will be any successful bandwagoning against him (not necessarily aga... Read more
By Yusuf Bangura A silent revolution is taking place in Africa’s aviation industry. For the first time ever, there is a clear and unrivalled superpower that has taken control of Africa’s ski... Read more
By Branko Milanovic Recently, a Chinese author (as seems from the text and the Chinese characters used) proposed the following understanding of international relations. (I am grateful to a f... Read more
Ukraine and Gaza are holding the world in rapt attention as sites of war to determine global primacy. But the piece below from The Loop published by the European Consortium for Political Res... Read more
By Yusuf Bangura The optimism of the 1990s, which saw a massive rollback of autocratic regimes in favour of electoral democracy, has given way to pessimism about democracy’s continued spread... Read more
President Tinubu’s Populist Escape Route from Niger – Mali – B/Faso – Guinea Diplomatic Misadventure
The doctrine of ‘news following the flag’ compels the contribution of whoever is in a position to do so towards a sharp course-correction away from what has clearly been a major... Read more
It was a pleasant two-day house (hotel) arrest for the purpose of a collective peer review of a potentially explosive book project on electoral accountability in Nigeria on the one hand and... Read more
The Nigerian government and the people leading it got the lowest rating at the opening ceremony in Abuja Monday (January 22nd) of the centenary of the passage of Vladimir Lenin, founding fig... Read more
The Alumni Association of the National Institute (AANI) is out with those cautioning the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) against a military option in resolving the militar... Read more
There is now a very sharp disagreement between the Federal Government and the labour/civil society coalition planning a popular protest from August 2nd, 2023 across Nigeria. While the labour... Read more
