This is the result of them reviving their Old Cold War-era strategic partnership By Andrew Korybko SAN FRANCISCO (CONVERSEER) – Indian External Affairs Minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar announced that his country will upgrade its technical mission in Afghanistan to a full-fledged embassy during the six-day visit of his Afghan counterpart Amir Khan Muttaqi. This came…
By Ebube Bruno “The same way we tell our children not to wander through strange streets at night, we must now teach them not to roam the internet without light.” A few weeks ago, a colleague shared an experience she witnessed during a school outreach on digital safety. She had met a mother who said…
“Gen Z isn’t just growing up online — they’re living there. But the comfort of scrolling comes with silent dangers parents too often ignore.” By Ebube Bruno CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – Gen Z is the first generation of true digital natives. They were born into broadband, raised on smartphones, and socialise in timelines rather than town…
“Her act deserves applause. Yet, the very fact that such applause is necessary is proof of how deeply our governance has failed.” By Ebube Bruno ABUJA (CONVERSEER) – First Lady Oluremi Tinubu has raised over N20 billion for the completion of the National Library project through her 65th birthday fundraising initiative. Instead of the usual…
Colluding with the US on destabilising Afghanistan and returning Western military infrastructure to the region would turbocharge the emerging Turkic Bloc’s rise at the expense of Russia’s influence in Central Asia, while reconsidering these plans that Shoigu alluded to would help stabilise the region. By Andrew Korybko SAN FRANCISCO (CONVERSEER) – Secretary of the Security…
By Ebube Bruno CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – In Calabar, like in many Nigerian cities, dreams often start from the classrooms of our secondary schools. That was the case for Daniel, a promising SS2 science student at a government school in the city. He had ambitions of becoming a software engineer, inspired by his late father, who…
NATO might exploit this hoax as the pretext for commencing large-scale but “plausibly deniable” electronic warfare provocations against Kaliningrad that could spike the risk of a civilian accident By Andrew Korybko SAN FRANCISCO (CONVERSEER) – The Financial Times’ Brussels Bureau Chief Henry Foy prompted panic across Europe last week when he reported that Russian electronic…
They claim that it’s “profiteering” off of the Ukrainian Conflict and “funding Putin’s war machine”. By Andrew Korybko SAN FRANCISCO (CONVERSEER) – The US punished India for its energy imports from Russia by imposing additional 25% tariffs on it, thus bringing their total tariffs to 50%, despite China and the EU being the largest respective…
China wants to retain access to Kachin State’s rare earths, the US wants to poach them, and their escalating competition over this part of Myanmar could make it the next New Cold War flashpoint. By Andrew Korybko SAN FRANCISCO (CONVERSEER) – Reuters reported that the US’ Myanmar policy might shift towards more diplomatic engagement with…
By Abiodun Komolafe IJEBU-JESA (CONVERSEER) – There was a delusion that the privatisation of the power sector – an existing, dilapidated monopoly – would be as straightforward and eventually beneficial as the transformative liberalisation of the telecommunications industry. What we are now witnessing is the shattering of that illusion, with the critical failure of the…
