A United States (US) bill that would oblige Washington to punish African governments that abet Russian ‘malign’ activities on the continent is sailing through Congress. The countering Malign Russian Activities in Africa Act passed the House of Representatives on 27 April by a huge, bipartisan 419-9 majority and is now sure to be passed by the Senate […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG US President, Joe Biden, on Saturday dramatically escalated his rhetoric against Vladimir Putin, calling for the Russian leader to be removed because of his brutal invasion of Ukraine. “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power”, Biden told a crowd in Warsaw at the end of a 2-day trip to Poland. The […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Nigerian Woman Becomes First Black Female President Of US College A Nigerian woman, Toyin Tofade has become the first black female president of Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (ACPHS) founded in 1881. Tofade, who bagged a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), is to begin her term on […] Read more
NATO allies rejected Ukraine’s request to set up and enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine, saying that it would lead to a larger, more devastating conflict across Europe. “We are not part of this conflict, and we have a responsibility to ensure it does not escalate and spread beyond Ukraine,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told a news […] Read more
By Dr. Wumi Akintide – New York Putin’s ultimate goal is to resuscitate the defunct Soviet Union back to its former glory regardless of what America thinks. Vladimir Putin is neither Stalin nor Peter the Great but compared to Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yelsin, he is a great Russian Leader and KGB smooth operator. I […] Read more
By Dr. Wumi Akintide When Tucker Carlson and Fox News Rupert Murdock and Donald Trump have become apologists for Vladimir Putin, you know Authoritarianism has become the greatest threat to Democracy in the World with China and Russia as ideological twin brothers leading the cataclysm and the awful development. I now fully understand why Chris […] Read more
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
