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HISTORIC DAY OF January 1, 2021, must have been a special and memorable one for Africa. Unlike other such days of previous years, this particular day in 2021 marked the day of the commencement of trading on the platform of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). While the umbrella body of African Union (AU) […]

THERE IS NO ARGUMENT about the fact that the decade beginning from 2020 is a decade of Coronavirus. The year 2020 alone has seen a widespread impact of the infection, now regarded as a pandemic. It was a year of panic, experimentation, competition for solutions, fear-mongering and politicisation of a misfortune of mankind. The coming […]

ONE MAJOR RECURRING COMPONENT in the risk analysis on Africa is leadership. Despite its centrality, it remains an unsolved problem for a number of reasons. Among them are the confounding variables that sometimes defy logic and common sense. Problems arising at lower levels of human activities are subjected to extensive analysis and a wide array […]

AFRICA CONTINUES TO SHOW PROMISES of becoming an attractive and distinctive continent for the world in years ahead. In addition to its continued relevance as a major source of many commodities serving as drivers of global industrial growth, technological advancement, food security and as primary source of many luxury products, Africa is becoming a continent […]

ANXIETIES, FEARS AND uncertainties prevalent at the peak of COVID-19 restrictions all over the world are gradually subsiding as many countries are getting used to the disease, the measures outlined for controlling its spread and as they begin to understand some critical issues about the pandemic. These, however, are not truly indicative of decline of […]

AS THE WORLD ANXIOUSLY waits to put the COVID-19 experience of 2020 behind, the coming year 2021 may or may not be an extension of the outgoing year, depending on how well the pandemic is tamed. The variation in pandemic prevalence, the associated mortalities and the effectiveness of policy and administrative interventions in containing the […]

THE YEAR 2020 will be remembered as such a remarkable year and will remain so in the history of the world as the year that marked a watershed in many global affairs. Before 2020, never has there been any other year, since the Great Depression, in which the impact of a single event got transmitted globally so […]

WITHOUT THE BENEFITS of historical hindsight, younger generation of observers witnessing the controversies trailing the US election held nearly a fortnight ago might be tempted to think this is the first time Americans squabble over election results. For once, many distant observers would see that elections in the US are not 100 per cent error-free, […]

THE UNITED STATES’ 2020 ELECTION has just proved chaotic and controversial as incumbent President Trump has disputed the outcomes in some key states considered pivotal to his re-election. Accordingly, the US Supreme Court is expected to intervene and clear the path for the true winner. Notwithstanding this glitch, the country braces for another four years […]

NIGERIA, THE LARGEST COUNTRY in Africa by population, has experienced two weeks of unbroken street protests involving the youth who have been expressing their dissatisfaction with government in the handling of security and a few other social and economic issues. On security in particular, their grouse began with complaints against a notorious operational arm of […]