The highest level of diplomatic contact between Moscow and Kyiv presents itself in the 3-day Antalya Diplomacy Forum held between March 11 and 13, in the city of Antalya, Turkey. With its display of soft power diplomacy, Istanbul in concert with other global actors is taking a frontal stage in mediating peace talks between Moscow…
The helms of affairs of Seoul will enter a new phase of democratic dispensation as power shifts from the Liberals to the newly elected Conservative Party, setting it to take the centre stage by May. Yoon Suk-yeol, presidential flag bearer of the People Power Party emerged victorious after edging past his opponent Lee Jae-Myung from…
Born in February 1986 in Punta Arenas, Gabriel Boric Font officially takes office as state leader of the Republic of Chile in March 2022, for a four-year term. A tricenarian at age 36, Boric has his name inked in gold as the youngest-ever president of the South-American country. Interestingly from student unionism to the presidency,…
Rebuilding of cordial relations, friendly ties and cultural exchanges all summed up in the machinery of diplomacy is becoming the new norm in the world’s most sensitive region: the Middle East. Differences set aside, few among the formerly discordant neighbours are back to merry on the table of resolution. Despite recent peace-building developments, a line…
SWIFT, which stands for Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, is a global financial system that allows for smooth and fast transfer of money is the world’s top fund transfer network. SWIFT connects the economies of top financial players in the International economic system. Founded in 1973 and headquartered in Belgium, SWIFT links 11,000 member…
InUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, awards a soldier in a trench as he visits the war-hit Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 6, 2021. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine edges closer to the capital city of Kyiv, Mariinskyi Palace, the official residence of top Ukrainian officials is on the verge…
If there’s anything, today, in the country that we’re all found culpable, it’s our silence, neutrality and defense. Silence in the face of abnormalities, neutrality in the way of criminalities, and defense at the expense of immoralities and injustice. There’s no gainsaying that we’re all victims of this vicious circle. That’s the society we have…
The invasion of Ukraine is no longer hanging in the sky. It has become a reality today. From ramming up Ukrainian Eastern frontiers to the deployment of troops, rounds of diplomatic talks, military drills in Belarus, threat and imposition of sanctions on Russia by the West, the world is at the brink of a large-scale…
In 2014, Russia’s annexation of Crimea, a larger chunk of the Ukrainian territory alarmed and increased the ‘heartbeat’ of the G-8 – a group of top economic giants in which Moscow has been a key member since 1997. This violation of international law formed the basis for Russia’s indefinite suspension from the political forum following…
It’s the season of electioneering and political engineering, and the field is wide open for political aspirants to throw their hats into the ring. As expected, the stage would be divided, the campaign would be dreadful; some will go high, others might play simple; banters for banters, however, there must be a winner, and most…
Ridden with high political tensions and spill out of religious extremism, the Sahel region is fast becoming another Middle East. Life is becoming hellish for millions of Africans and foreign nationals intermingling within that geopolitical space with the security manned to provide all-round protective measures across the region invariably punching below its weight. Insecurity remains…
Bola Tinubu’s story is simply that of a kingmaker who had quietly nurtured a lifelong ambition of becoming a king. Over the years, he remained silent on whether he will be throwing his hat into the ring or not. Many rumoured he will, others thought otherwise: they believed he will prefer to remain a kingmaker…
Remembering those days amidst a greater and even more intense controversy about the huge influence weirded by the late Mr. Abba Kyari, former Chief of Staff (CoS) to President Muhammadu Buhari, one couldn’t help but ask if like Kyari, Prof. Gambari, the incumbent presidential gatekeeper is holding the grip of power, at least, as much…
