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The world came together on a warm April morning in Rome. Under Bernini’s wide colonnade, a simple wooden coffin lay, almost shy against the grand marble of St. Peter’s. It held the body of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, better known as Pope Francis; it also carried a final message, passed without words. As I watched the…
April 28, 2025
Pope Francis had a great sense of humor. When I met him once at the back of the papal plane, I cracked a joke with him that was a little bit close to the line. Luckily, he roared with laughter and told me “Sei cattivo!” (“You’re naughty!”). Every day, he used to say, he prayed…
April 27, 2025
By Kevin Carmichael Scary thought, isn’t it? We have our strengths, but we’ve long had the fantastic luck of playing wing on a line centred by the global economy’s dominant player—the French and British empires at the start of our colonial history, and then the U.S. as European power receded. That was never a wise…
April 27, 2025
By Bolanle Bolawole [email protected] 0705 263 1058 “Waiting for an African Pope” by my brother, Azu Ishiekwene, made an interesting reading. Azu’s immense fecundity, as usual, his flawless prose, and free-flowing minting and weaving of words will always be a delight anyday. “Waiting for an African Pope” ended while I was still enjoying it! Did…
April 27, 2025
On December 13, 1972, Zambia’s founding president, Kenneth Kaunda, signed into law the Constitution (Amendment) Acts, numbers 3,4 and 5 ending the country’s First Republic and ushering in a new constitution for the country, which promised a “One-Party Participatory Democracy” under “one and only one party…., namely, the United National Independence Party (UNIP).” All of…
April 27, 2025
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) has agreed to work together to increase its members' bargaining power in dealing with the United States' tariff hikes, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said. Speaking on the last day of her two-day official visit to Cambodia, she said on Thursday that Washington's reciprocal tariffs on the bloc's exports…
April 26, 2025
Impact of AI and Emerging Technologies By Sonny Iroche Introduction Nigeria’s banking and financial services sector is undergoing a rapid digital transformation, setting the stage for a markedly different landscape by 2030. Driven by a young, tech-savvy population and a vibrant fintech ecosystem, the country is going to be leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and other…
April 26, 2025
Have you ever daydreamed about sipping coffee by a sunlit balcony in a foreign land, free from the nine-to-five grind? I certainly have. The idea of retiring abroad on a modest budget genuinely excites me. And by “modest,” I mean around $2,000 a month. It might sound unrealistic at first, but there are actually quite…
April 23, 2025
By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu The Vatican shocked the world when it issued the statement that Pope Francis had died, aged 88, at 7:35AM on Easter Monday. Pope Fancis, a native of Argentina, was the first Latin American to serve as the head of the Catholic Church. The ailing Pope had he made a surprise visit…
April 23, 2025
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The world came together on a warm April morning in Rome. Under Bernini’s wide colonnade, a simple wooden coffin lay, almost shy against the grand marble of St. Peter’s. It held the body of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, better known as Pope Francis; it also carried a final message, passed without words. As I watched the…
April 28, 2025
Pope Francis had a great sense of humor. When I met him once at the back of the papal plane, I cracked a joke with him that was a little bit close to the line. Luckily, he roared with laughter and told me “Sei cattivo!” (“You’re naughty!”). Every day, he used to say, he prayed…
April 27, 2025
By Kevin Carmichael Scary thought, isn’t it? We have our strengths, but we’ve long had the fantastic luck of playing wing on a line centred by the global economy’s dominant player—the French and British empires at the start of our colonial history, and then the U.S. as European power receded. That was never a wise…
April 27, 2025
By Bolanle Bolawole [email protected] 0705 263 1058 “Waiting for an African Pope” by my brother, Azu Ishiekwene, made an interesting reading. Azu’s immense fecundity, as usual, his flawless prose, and free-flowing minting and weaving of words will always be a delight anyday. “Waiting for an African Pope” ended while I was still enjoying it! Did…
April 27, 2025
On December 13, 1972, Zambia’s founding president, Kenneth Kaunda, signed into law the Constitution (Amendment) Acts, numbers 3,4 and 5 ending the country’s First Republic and ushering in a new constitution for the country, which promised a “One-Party Participatory Democracy” under “one and only one party…., namely, the United National Independence Party (UNIP).” All of…
April 27, 2025
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) has agreed to work together to increase its members' bargaining power in dealing with the United States' tariff hikes, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said. Speaking on the last day of her two-day official visit to Cambodia, she said on Thursday that Washington's reciprocal tariffs on the bloc's exports…
April 26, 2025
Impact of AI and Emerging Technologies By Sonny Iroche Introduction Nigeria’s banking and financial services sector is undergoing a rapid digital transformation, setting the stage for a markedly different landscape by 2030. Driven by a young, tech-savvy population and a vibrant fintech ecosystem, the country is going to be leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and other…
April 26, 2025
Have you ever daydreamed about sipping coffee by a sunlit balcony in a foreign land, free from the nine-to-five grind? I certainly have. The idea of retiring abroad on a modest budget genuinely excites me. And by “modest,” I mean around $2,000 a month. It might sound unrealistic at first, but there are actually quite…
April 23, 2025
By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu The Vatican shocked the world when it issued the statement that Pope Francis had died, aged 88, at 7:35AM on Easter Monday. Pope Fancis, a native of Argentina, was the first Latin American to serve as the head of the Catholic Church. The ailing Pope had he made a surprise visit…
April 23, 2025
