On Wednesday night, Christa Pike lay strapped to a gurney at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville while the State of Tennessee injected pentobarbital, a sedative that is lethal in high doses, into her…
By Farooq A. Kperogi Something extraordinary is happening across the world. Governments are losing sleep over the intolerably rising prices of petrol and diesel. They are cutting taxes, subsidizing fuel, capping prices, releasing strategic…
by Simon Kọ́láwọlé, Something is brewing in The Gambia, our fellow West African country. Ordinarily, it looks like a simple, routine banking regulation exercise which should not worry any observer, but I fear there…
By Dr. Olarinre Salako, Last week, I returned to Scotland, more than eleven years after completing my Ph.D. at Heriot-Watt University’s School of Energy Geoscience Infrastructure and Society. I landed in the cold City…
VIA PREMIUM TIMES: By Adeola Akinremi, Nigeria needs a policy shift from raid-and-detention enforcement of artisanal miners. The government should not focus on providing licences to the “big men” alone, just as it continues…
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed an executive order Friday banning online betting in Brazil, Courthouse News reports, with the order taking immediate effect but requiring congressional approval within 120 days to…
By Farooq A. Kperogi A few days before Nasir El-Rufai’s trending, impassioned September 23 letter talking about the “apparent silence” of friends and family members he had “publicly stood by,” I read social media…
By Farooq A. Kperogi Nigeria has tried almost everybody except the people who actually frighten the system, who can shake, even extirpate, the status quo and who can cause the sort of creative destruction…
Zac Anderson from USA Today Former President Barack Obama urged U.S. officials to “take the lead” in setting Artificial Intelligence safety standards for the world, calling for government regulation amid “serious safety concerns” that have industry leaders…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and mayors from cities around the country filed a joint lawsuit Monday seeking to block a Trump administration rule change making it harder for lawful immigrants to receive…
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