By Basil Okoh At the dawn of the twentieth century, the world understood a different kind of power play from today and the alignments of power and technology across the world did not permit nations to seek domination of the world and it’s markets as the big nations presently do. Europe was the home of […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG The Biden administration’s new rules requiring most foreign nationals to be vaccinated before flying to the United States take effect at 12:01 a.m. EST (0501 GMT) Nov. 8. Here’s what you need to know: * Starting Nov. 8, foreign air travelers to the United States will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and […] Read more
By Tope Akinnola MaTaZ ArIsInG Having listened to President Biden’s much touted speech, he was indeed unable to change my mind about the fact that his handling of America’s long-awaited final withdrawal from Afghanistan after two decades of war is a foreign policy disaster. The optics aren’t good. Perception is everything – somebody needs to […] Read more
By Dr. Wumi Akintide MaTaZ ArIsInG President George Bush, a Republican of Texas who started the catastrophic adventure to that land-locked country of Afghanistan half way around the World, should have thought of the quoted statement above before deciding to go there as part of her resolution to pursue Osama Bin Ladin to the Gates […] Read more
By Robbie Gramer, a diplomacy and national security reporter at Foreign Policy. MaTaZ ArIsInG Senators quietly press U.S. President Joe Biden to reassess U.S.-Nigeria relations amid human rights concerns. U.S. lawmakers are holding a proposed sale of attack helicopters to Nigeria amid mounting concerns about the Nigerian government’s human rights record as its military grapples with multiple […] Read more
REUTERS WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump pressed the Justice Department during his waning weeks in office to join his failed effort to overturn his election defeat based on his false claims of voting fraud, but its leaders refused, with one decrying the “pure insanity” of the claims, documents released on Tuesday […] Read more
By Mike Pompeo, Senior Counsel for Global Affairs 06/10/2021 Every single day in Nigeria, Christians aren’t just having their right to religious freedom denied – they are being murdered because of their faith in Jesus. I have often spoken of the importance of religious liberty to a free society. It is a foundational freedom. No society that denies its […] Read more
by Dr. Wumi Akintide President Biden & Vice President Harris, I see a compelling reason to address this letter to both of you as Heads of Government. I do so in my capacity as a syndicated columnist of the Sahara Reporters Media Company of New York. I was among the first to accurately predict you […] Read more
Published by Ayo Dada 166 days ago, President John Pombe Magufuli and I had dinner together at the State Residence in Dar es Salaam, but I did not know that it would be our last supper. The following day, he saw me off the apron of Julius Nyerere International Airport, but I did not know […] Read more
by Dr. Wumi Akintide I wept on January 20, 2017 not only because my preferred candidate who was a shoo-in to become the first female President of the United States had lost by winning the popular vote by 3 million votes, but was torpedoed by the first Mafia Boss in Donald Trump, whose last ditch […] Read more
