The World Bank’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The World Bank predicts that the Ukrainian economy is going to contract eight times more than that of Russia amid Moscow’s ongoing military operation in the ex-Soviet republic. The Washington-based institution said Tuesday the Ukrainian economy would shrink by 35% this year, comparedContinue Reading

There’s no question that future unbiased historians will rank Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address on the Return of the Baby Bears – Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia – on September 30 as a landmark inflection point of the Raging Twenties. The underlying honesty and clarity mirror his speech at theContinue Reading

The Federal Government on Tuesday presented certificates of registration to the Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA) and the National Association of Medical and Dental Academics (NAMDA), two breakaway factions of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Minister of labour and employment, Dr Chris Ngige did the presentation, inContinue Reading

Human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, (SAN), yesterday, faulted the claim by the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr Chris Ngige, that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, disobeyed the order of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, NICN, Abuja, by not asking its members to resume duties afterContinue Reading

The War of Economic Corridors has entered incandescent, uncharted territory: Pipeline Terror. A sophisticated military operation – that required exhaustive planning, possibly involving several actors – blew up four separate sections of the Nord Stream (NS) and Nord Stream 2 (NS2) gas pipelines this week in the shallow waters ofContinue Reading

Deputy Head of Russia’s security council Dmitry Medvedev has slammed Ukraine’s renewed bid to promptly join the US-led NATO military alliance as an effort that would only “hasten the start of World War III.” “[Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky wants to speed up NATO membership. Great idea. He just begs NATOContinue Reading