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What the emerging Great Power politics means for Africa
In 1983, US President, Ronald Reagan ordered an invasion of Grenada. Margaret Thatcher’s Great Britain strongly criticised the invasion of a Commonwealth nation (the Queen was still the titular Head of State of Grenada), but that was all Britain could do, it could not send the Royal Navy to challenge the US Navy. Such a display of weakness by Great Britain was unthinkable half a century earlier, in 1933 when its naval power was still perceived as unrivalled. In 1823, then US president, James Monroe proclaimed the “Monroe Doctrine”. This basically meant that the United States would no longer tolerate incursions by European powers in the Western Hemisphere, which it considered its backyard. For a couple of decades, these were little more than empty words, because the United States lacked the means to enforce them. That however, changed when the United States became a serious industrial power following the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869 meant that for the first time, the United States of America could reliably and efficiently link its western and eastern coasts. In simple terms , the United States had truly become a continental power. The first target ...
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REPORTS
What the emerging Great Power politics means for Africa
In 1983, US President, Ronald Reagan ordered an invasion of ...
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Video: Transportation in Lagos
A recent SBM survey about transportation in Lagos revealed increased ...
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Chart of the week: Military exercises in Nigeria
For years now, with rising insecurity across the country, Nigeria's ...
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How could the Soleimani killing impact Nigeria?
On 3 January 2020, an American drone, in a targeted ...
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The Year Ahead – It’s the economy, stupid
The year 2019 was an interesting one for Nigeria, which ...
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What does Boris Johnson’s Britain mean for Nigeria?
Anti-immigrant sentiment is seldom fully rational, and one cannot understand ...
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Chart of the week: Lowest points of power
Nigeria's national grid collapsed 4 times in January, once in ...
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Video: Who does the Social Media Bill affect?
The Executive arm of Nigeria’s government has for a while ...
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Video: Interest in Nigeria’s democracy
A countrywide survey by SBM Intelligence shows a waning interest, ...
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US President, Donald Trump has announced that Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader ...
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Video: Rice, and Nigeria’s border
From independence till the mid-1970s, Nigeria's domestic rice production was ...
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The SBM Jollof Index – Inflation jumps off the border
Jollof rice is the one meal that is common to ...
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Stalemate: Boko Haram’s new strategy means fewer attacks
At its peak in 2014, the Boko Haram insurgency saw ...
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How do the Saudi attacks affect Nigeria?
A swarm of drones set off a chain of explosions ...
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Chart of the week: Exchange rate divergence
Since November 2013, a Lagos based private equity firm has ...
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