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LAST WEEK’S OFFICIAL TRIP to the Middle East by the US President Donald Trump was remarkable in many ways. Apart from the possibility of promoting regional peace and stability, Trump’s Middle East trip to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE, as announced, has raked in $243.5 billion deals, covering energy, aviation, military, among others, expected to […]

HISTORICALLY AND in CONTEMPORARY TIMES, Africa has been an attractive continent. Since the end of slave trade, attention has been turned to Africa’s rich natural resources. The foreign direct rulers, otherwise known as colonisers, had the opportunity of knowing how rich Africa was and had chosen to adopt means and methods of sustaining their hold […]

WHETHER THROUGH PEACETIME or wartime, Africa’s natural resources have always been attractive to those outside the continent. In Africa’s modern day economy, extractive industry remains the major source of national revenues, especially as governments depend on the export of these commodities for running their countries’ affairs. Produce from farm and non-farm agriculture or from minerals […]

MANY AFRICAN COUNTRIES may be looking at phenomenal and unrelenting sea-level rise as one of the distant outcomes of climate change. In reality, it is nearer than many could imagine. In fact, ignoring its impacts on a wider ramification of impacts could prove to be extremely expensive in economic and human terms in the immediate […]

TALKS ON TARIFFS IMPOSED by President Donald Trump on goods coming from many countries into the United States recently have dominated many economic and political discussions. Among the complaints are statements like such tariffs will estrange the US, the US will experience higher costs of imported commodities within the domestic market, tariffs will not induce […]

LAST WEEK, THE APPOINTMENT of a new Director General for the National Agricultural Seed Council (NASC) was announced. His name is Fatuhu Muhammed. The newly appointed DG was elected into the Federal House of Representatives, where he became popular in 2020 as a member of House Committee on Tertiary Education, for proposing the privatisation of […]

ECOWAS IS DYING. The final killers and the undertakers may well be presidents of two countries, namely France and Nigeria. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has been going through what could best be described as slow death or instalmental death over a fairly long period of time. The symptoms of what is […]

NAMIBIA’S FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT was sworn in last weekend on Friday. The epoch-making event at the country’s capital, Windhoek, was one in which Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, was inaugurated as Africa’s second directly elected female leader. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, 72, was declared the winner in Namibia’s November 27 to 30, 2024 general election and was declared winner on […]

SUDAN CEASED TO BE ONE on July 9, 2011, when the southern portion took on its own separate identity by becoming South Sudan. The formal declaration that led to the creation of South Sudan as an independent and distinct country from Sudan was a culmination of over 20 years of war and six years of […]