Opinion

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China’s Belt and Road Initiative and debt-trap diplomacy in Africa

By Emeka Umejei, PhD The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been described as China’s most ambitious push for a dominant role in global geopolitics an

The colonial undertones of Omicron travel bans

By Rosebell Kagumire On November 26, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated a new coronavirus variant B.1.1.529 a variant of concern and named

Alhaji Mukhtar Sarkin Bai: Portrait of integrity and loyalty

Alhaji Mukhtar Sarkin Bai lived for 95 years (1926-2021). He was born into the noble family that descended from Malam Dabo Dambazau the 19th century I

Honest use of private jets

Most of the current news in Nigeria concerns how the poor and downtrodden are crying in pain, but it now appears as if the rich are also set to cry. T

Value Added Tax on imported cooking gas is an anti-masses policy

By Anthony Agbo It is no longer news that Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), otherwise known as cooking gas, is one of the commodities hit the hardest by