Nigeria, Nov. 28 -- The position of a state broadcaster, one funded directly by taxpayers from a particular country, places it in a delicate position. The risk of alignment with the views of the day, ... Read More
Nigeria, Nov. 27 -- Be careful who you condemn and ostracise. They just might be supplying you with a special need. While the United States security establishment deems Russia the devil incarnate, hel... Read More
Nigeria, Nov. 26 -- The slow, often grinding machinery of international law has just received a push along with the issuing of three arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court. They are for I... Read More
Nigeria, Nov. 23 -- The Australian government is being run ragged in various quarters. When ragged, such a beast is bound to seek a distraction. And what better than finding a vulnerable group, prefer... Read More
Nigeria, Nov. 22 -- There is something enormously satisfying about seeing those in the war racket worry that their assumptions on conflict have been upended. There they were, happily funding, planning... Read More
Nigeria, Nov. 19 -- COP29 was always going to be memorable for no other reason than the hosting country, Azerbaijan, is a petrostate indifferent to the issue of emissions and scornful of ecological pr... Read More
Nigeria, Nov. 17 -- Two more United Nations committee resolutions. Both concerning the conduct of Israel past and current. While disease, hunger and death continue to stalk the Gaza Strip, and the Wes... Read More
Nigeria, Nov. 15 -- It is hard to credit one of the least impressive Secretary of State, the United States has ever produced with any merit other than being a plasterwork that, from time to time, move... Read More
Nigeria, Nov. 13 -- The scene is memorable enough. November 2016. The Twin Peaks Tavern, Castro District. Men gathered beside themselves. "It's shocking how those people voted him in," splutters one o... Read More
Nigeria, Nov. 12 -- It was catastrophic, cataclysmic and all destructive. It wiped out empires and aristocracies and tore through the middle class. The First World War was a conflict that should never... Read More