Today, Mr Kashim Shettima, Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, will be addressing the United Nations General Assembly. It is a speech we eagerly anticipate, not just because the VP has a way with words and is well regarded as a Bibliophile, the speech comes on the back of his impressive presentation last…
Today, Mr Kashim Shettima, Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, will be addressing the United Nations General Assembly. It is a speech we eagerly anticipate, not just because the VP has a way with words and is well regarded as a Bibliophile, the speech comes on the back of his impressive presentation last…
Elombi: When Preparation Meets Opportunity at AfreximBank By Simbo Olorunfemi and Ade Adefeko “As we look to the future, I see Afreximbank as a force for industrialising                           Africa and…
Yusuf Tuggar’s Foreign Policy Doctrine of ‘Strategic Autonomy’ in RAP, By Simbo Olorunfemi “Flavor Flav has problems of his own, I can’t do nuttin’ for ya man” – Public Enemy Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Yusuf Tuggar, took quite a few people by surprise during a live TV interview when, in addressing the reported demand…
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has reiterated its commitment to the full operationalisation of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Executive Order on Critical National Information Infrastructure (CNII), which designates telecommunications facilities as critical national assets deserving optimal protection. This comes on the heels of a successful mediation led by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), in collaboration with…
It has to be that there are people out there who are so heavily invested in ensuring friction between NNPC Limited and Dangote Refinery that at every turn, they must find a way to pull the trigger on one narrative or the other to push the two into knocking heads in the public space. It…
“What is soft is strong” – Lao Tzu If there was any doubt that the return of Donald Trump as the President of the United States of America would usher in another round of chaos in the international arena, unsettling allies and international institutions, provoking foes and neutrals, throwing up in the air laws, norms,…
        “The two countries do not share borders, but it has always felt like we did.                                 …
That Baba Obasanjo has an almost child-like emotional attachment to the public-owned refineries under the trust and care of the NNPCL is not in doubt. It is also not difficult to explain why that appears to be the case. He can indeed assert some level of claim/credit for the construction of 2 of Nigeria’s publicly…
There is a video clip of Biodun Shobanjo on social media platforms that has since gone viral, in which he talks about his love for the contemporary music (Afrobeat, as they call it) of Burna Boy, Davido, Asake, and the rest of the gang. With that Shobanjo-esque boyish grin, he tells how shocked some of…
