World Health Organisation and the Exit of America’s Leadership, By Osmund Agbo
The truth is that America has never suffered this degree of humiliation before. The coronavirus has come to expose the worst notion of leadership there is, in the worst possible way. Trump’s America has now achieved an international pariah The United States has become the first casualty of a terribly…
Coronavirus: A Wily Enemy, By Bunmi Fatoye-Matory
How wily is this enemy? It attacks the very things that makes us human; our very breath, our ability to gather, our need to hold and touch each other, to laugh, sing, dance and celebrate together. It drives us from normal human activities and forces us to be imprisoned in…
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Akinwumi Adesina: A Pawn In the Struggle of Two Elephants?, By Femi Kehinde
The AfDB is the key institution in the continent for trade and investment. For Steven Dowd, China is outpacing the in investing in Africa, and this must be curtailed by the United The President Donald Trump and the Treasury Secretary Steven Munchin are ready allies in this operation to demolish…
The Orphans of Coronavirus, By Owei Lakemfa
The new findings that point to earlier sources of COVID-19 may have rendered the court cases against China a nullity and those who hope to benefit from them may have become a distinct group of coronavirus orphans. The victims of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are not only those who contracted…
A Vaccine, a Seat Across From the IMF, and the Economy, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Effective policy responses will matter. But an autarkic mindset, a staple of our policy pronouncements to date, will hurt. Either way, neither offers a useful answer to the question: “How long, therefore, before we are again across the table from the IMF?” However this question is answered, one fact is…
China, Africa and the World After COVID-19, By Kingsley Moghalu
Africa’s current relationship with China is not advancing our strategic interest. That interest is to become productive economies with a manufacturing industrial base. The China-Africa “special relationship” is preventing this interest from being realised. The coronavirus crisis has created a welcome opportunity for us to reassess the relationship between China…
In Africa, Trump’s Fate Is Worse Than A Laughing Stock, By Azu Ishiekwene
Even in Nigeria where Trump had a sizable following among evangelicals who believed Barack Obama was the anti-Christ (mainly because of his stance on gay rights), the president’s mismanagement of COVID-19 has left his reputation in shreds. And Nigeria’s president, whose encounter with him in Washington Trump once described in…
COVID-19 Pandemic: When Solidarity and Cooperation Is the Most Potent Weapon, By Zhou Pingjian
...China firmly supports Nigeria’s fight against the coronavirus outbreak and stands ready to assist, if needed, to the best of its ability. Be it experience-sharing or medical supplies delivery, China will continue to prove itself a good friend, partner, and brother of Nigeria through concrete actions. This joint battle against…
War Against Coronavirus In Nigeria: Of Kano, Cuba and China, By Jiti Ogunye
In the circumstances, when all hell appears to have been let loose in Kano, with the local public healthcare delivery system appearing to have been overwhelmed or to have collapsed, the direct intervention of the federal government and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to re-emplace the waning or…
The Post-COVID-19 Economy: What Is To Be Done?, By Uddin Ifeanyi
We will need to do more by way of reforms if our economy is to live up to our sundry aspirations for it. For instance, we do not even know how many businesses have been bankrupted by the recent lockdown. How many employees have lost their jobs?... Simply by having…
