By Jon Allsop Nothing appears to have happened to the received wisdom that half or quarter truths acting as bodyguards of the larger truth is the first condition of war, be it between what h... Read more
Cuba has done it again. It has vaccinated 90% of the population according to a widely circulating story, (TheHill, for example). Cuba created multiple Covid-19 vaccines in addition to aggres... Read more
But for the European Union, (EU), Ethiopia’s Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus would not have been renominated for another term as Director-General of the World Health Organisation, (WHO). Reut... Read more
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
The world order might be changing but, as far as the knowledge-power nexus is concerned, the United States of America and the United Kingdom still have the largest number of the top scoring... Read more
Fear is rising about the fate of women and girls as the Taliban sets to re-assert control of Afghanistan again. What is likely to happen to that category, if previous experience is anything... Read more
China as Great Power Unfolds Further, Plays Up Clean Records Card in Colonialism @ Party’s Centenary
The centenary of the Chinese Communist Party is providing China a strategic opportunity for the rhetorical offensive, this time playing up its clean record as far as colonising others is con... Read more
There is no knowing whether it is her internal bleeding or the criteria by which the QS ranking exercise is conducted that may explain why not a single university from Nigeria made it in the... Read more
Amidst something that looks like a retraction, the story has, however, gone far that Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, had asked asked the United States to move its military headquarter... Read more
In the week that University of Ibadan’s Prof Eghosa Osaghae resumes as the Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, (NIIA), the temptation to infer history repeat... Read more
