By Paul Ejime THE DECISION by Assimi Goïta, who led two military coups within nine months in Mali from August 2020, to promote himself from Colonel to five-star general speaks volumes for the political ambition of the junta leaders in West Africa. By that announcement on 17 October, Goita became the highest-ranking officer in the […]
Culled from N.N.L. NRI KINGDOM: The Nri Kingdom in the Awka area present Anambra State was founded in 900AD by Nri (One of the two sons of Eri) in north central Igboland and is considered the oldest kingdom in Nigeria and West Africa. The Nsukka-Awka-Orlu axis is said to be the oldest location of Igbo […]
By Paul Ejime THE LATEST decision by the Burkina Faso junta to remove the ECOWAS logo from the country’s international passport is another move that questions the sincerity and critical thinking of that regime. The military rulers of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger decided in January this year to pull their countries out of ECOWAS, […]
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter UNLOCKING AFRICA’s economic potential through innovation took center stage at the 32nd anniversary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in Nigeria. José Bamóquina ZAU, Angola’s Ambassador to Nigeria and Chairman of SADC Nigeria, stressed that innovation is crucial for driv...
By Ali Ocheni MALI, BURKINA Faso and Niger, the three Alliance of Sahel States, with the French acronym AES have so far rebuffed overtures from ECOWAS and the rest of the international community to return to the regional bloc after their threat to withdraw. This has put the future of the ECOWAS grouping in doubt. […]
By Paul Ejime WORRIED ABOUT the poor state of learning in Africa, “with nine out of 10 children unable to read with understanding or do basic maths by the age of ten,” African leaders and education stakeholders have called for an actionable Strategic Plan to prioritize Foundational Learning as the bedrock of education, human development [&hell...
By Paul Ejime ECOWAS HAS held countless high-level meetings, including regular and extraordinary summits by regional leaders on peace and security issues since the renewed military incursions in politics in the politically restive West African region in 2020. The Abuja summit on Sunday 7th July is no exception. On Saturday 6th July, ahead of t...
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu LESS THAN a decade ago, the detention centre of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Scheveningen on the outskirts of The Hague could easily have been mistaken for a committee meeting of leaders of the African Union. One of its long-term guests was Laurent Gbagbo, a former president of Côte d’Ivoire. […]
By Elmuntasir Ahmed Historical Context: IN SUDAN, there’s a lot that’s led to crisis over the years: famine, land and water issues; they all stem from deep-seated factors that are made worse by civil conflict and disputes in the region. This is also compounded by involvement of international financial institutions such as International Monetar...
By Paul Ejime POLITICALLY SPEAKING, India is the World’s largest democracy with a voter population of 969 million from the more than 1.4 billion inhabitants. It towers above South Africa, which has less than 62 million people, and about 28 million registered voters. The Asian giant is also the World’s fifth-largest economy, while Africa’...
