BRICS
30 Oct
Rebuilding Trust is not a slogan or a PR campaign. It requires deep reforms to global governance to manage geopolitical tensions during a new era of multipolarity. And it is essential to building a safer, more stable, more prosperous world – António Guterres Asymmetrical power, contested geoeconomics, interwoven complexities and volatilities, across diverse geopolitical domains,…
25 Oct
Nigeria and 12 other countries have joined the BRICS intergovernmental organisation as partner nations, not full members.The announcement was made at the end of the BRICS summit in Russia, as the bloc seeks to enhance cooperation with emerging economies worldwide.
24 Oct
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Thursday against "illusory" attempts to defeat Russia on the battlefield
24 Oct
As China marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic, it stands as a testament to an extraordinary transformation. From the ruins of civil war in 1949, China emerged battered and impoverished, with few expecting the nation
9 Oct
It is apparent that if the WHO Pandemic Agreement and amendments to the IHR are signed in their current form by the requisite WHO member states, they may pave the way for the erosion of health and economic sovereignty from African states.
1 Sep
Algeria has been approved for membership in the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB), the country’s finance ministry has announced. The decision was taken on Saturday and announced by NDB chief Dilma Roussef at a meeting in Cape Town, South Africa. By joining "this important development institution, the financial arm of the BRICS group, Algeria is…
13 Mar
President, Global Migration Research Institute (GMRI), Prof Williams Ijoma, has said it is time Nigeria joined the league of nations in BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) bloc to rescue Nigeria from the clutch of poverty and open opportunities for rapid development.
7 Mar
Nigeria will apply for membership of BRICS in the next two years, the country's foreign affairs minister Yusuf Tuggar told Russian-owned Sputnik on Wednesday. Tuggar is on a three-day working visit to Russia, where he has held talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. BRICS group, which stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South…
20 Feb
The world is currently experiencing not greater multipolarity, but greater bipolarity. America and China are waging a new Cold War that is less about ideology and more about markets and technology.
19 Dec 2023
Throughout history, the preservation of peace and stability among nations has been of paramount concern to leaders whether city, states, empires, or nations as we have today. In the past, nations formed alliances as a means of preserving and protecting states. With the coming of the First World War, former alliances were seen as ineffective so the League of Nations was formed.
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