Category: OLANREWAJU P. AJIDAGBA

‘Jubilant Liberians greet UN troops’ was the headline of a report on August 5, 2005 by then Africa correspondent for the UK’s daily telegraph; Tim Butcher. Under the headline was a picture that showed a bespectacled Nigerian officer being hoisted on the shoulders of an ecstatic crowd of Liberians near Roberts international airport, Monrovia. The…

I was in the middle of a course dinner at Rewley house, Oxford when a colleague whispered to me from across the dining table that Queen Elizabeth II had just passed away.   Before the queen’s death became public, the sheer amount of good cheer that had floated around the dining hall had resembled the gleeful…

In the aftermath of Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, the People’s Republic of China has carried out a series of dangerous, large-scale military drills which has been said by military experts to mimic the tactics of a future invasion. These military exercises are different from the usual provocations of Beijing in the Taiwan strait. Ballistic…

At the edge of noon on December 15, 2021, the embattled British prime minister; Boris Johnson stood by the dispatch box in the middle of Britain’s house of commons to defend his government after more than one  hundred legislators from his own conservative party rebelled against it the previous night. Despite boasting a huge majority…