The president had been coy about whether he was ever going to debate his Republican opponent. But if he had taken a pass, he would have been the first president since Richard Nixon in 1972 to skip the debate process entirely. Given that there have been repeated questions about his age and competency to serve […]
President Bola Tinubu on Thursday received President Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal and called for an alignment of purpose and structure in West Africa to effectively address the challenges confronting the region. Speaking during a meeting with the Senegalese President at the State House, President Tinubu said West Africa must work together to defeat the […]
The Emirates Group will award eligible employees a five-month (20-week) salary as a bonus after the company announced a significant profit of AED 18.7 billion ($5.1 billion). This marks an impressive 71 per cent surge from the previous year’s AED 10.9 billion ($3.0 billion). The group’s workforce rose by 10 per cent to 112,406 – […]
Books & the Arts / May 14, 2024 Marty Peretz and the travails of American liberalism. From his New Left days to his neoliberalism and embrace of interventionism, The Controversialist is a portrait of his own political trajectory and that of American liberalism too. Ad Policy Martin Peretz (R) and then–New Republic editor Hendrick Hertzberg, […]
Voluntary carbon market could reach $10-$40 billion by 2030, and create up to 190 million jobs in Africa by 2050 if carbon price per tonne reaches $80 African countries could leverage their vast renewable energy resources, tropical forests, peatlands, and marine ecosystems to export premium carbon credits, providing a new revenue stream, according to the […]
Nigeria’s inflation continued its upward trend last month, rising for the 16th straight month. When compared to April 2023’s recorded rate of 22.22%, Nigeria’s headline inflation rate in 2024 rose a whopping 11.47% points. However, the headline inflation rate declined by 0.73% on a month-on-month basis. Where the headline inflation rate for April was 2.29%, the […]
Trump’s former lawyer described in court how the former president demands total sycophancy from his underlings. Ad Policy Michael Cohen, former president Donald Trump’s former attorney, arrives at his home after leaving Manhattan Criminal Court on May 13, 2024, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images) The third week of Donald Trump’s […]
By Sudarshan Varadhan BANGKOK (Reuters) – Higher electricity demand in Laos due to cryptocurrency mining and erratic rainfall have led to power shortages, an advisor to its state-run utility said, revealing challenges to the nation’s prospects as a hydropower exporter to Southeast Asia. Laos is dubbed the battery of southeast Asia for its hydropower export […]
With Donald Trump making promises to oil barons, the President has avoided making his Republican opponent’s connections to corporate America a feature of his reelection campaign. Ad Policy President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks about American energy production during a visit to the Double Eagle Energy Oil Rig, Wednesday, July 29, 2020, in Midland, […]
Gazans are on the move again as Israeli forces intensify bombardments. 13 May 2024. Credit: UNRWA Opinion by Ramzy Baroud (seattle, washington) Thursday, May 16, 2024 Inter Press Service SEATTLE, Washington, May 16 (IPS) – A major mistake we often commit in our analysis of the US political discourse on the Gaza war is that we […]
