Cheetah trafficking in the Horn of Africa has reached crisis levels. Research has documented at least 1,884 incidents involving around 4 000 live cheetahs and cheetah parts related to the illegal wildlife trade from Africa to the Arabian Peninsula between 2010 and 2019. A more recent study sheds light on how baby cheetahs are smuggled…
FBI Deputy Director and former Fox News host Dan Bongino could soon be getting a 20-person team of bodyguards for a job that doesn’t typically come with a security detail. The FBI is reportedly seeking agents to temporarily leave their jobs to serve as muscle for the brash ex-pundit, according to NBC News. Sources told the outlet that…
Brazil will join the United States, Mexico, Italy and Britain in Group B of the first round of next year’s World Baseball Classic at Houston’s Minute Maid Park. Major League Baseball and the players’ association on Wednesday allocated the four qualifiers for the 20-nation tournament, which runs from March 5-17. Taiwan was added to Group…
Billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola, has celebratred his friend, Aliko Dangote, who turns 68 today April 10. In a post shared on Instagram, Otedola described Aliko as the ‘’greatest entrepreneur to have come out of Africa.” He wrote; ‘’Happy Birthday to my Dear Brother @aliko_dangotegcon The greatest entrepreneur to have come out of Africa…
Image by Getty and Unsplash+. The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power by Robert Kaplan, (Yale University Press, 2023. Pp. 135). This book by Robert D. Kaplan is essentially a concise essay and demonstrates a way of describing political theory through the lens of literary criticism. As a notable voice in modern…
The Catalyst, Lanre Olusola, recently sat down with Global ICT Consultant Femi Adeagbo on the Be Transformed Podcast to discuss the potential greatness in Nigeria and the overlooked aspects of its economy. Femi challenges Nigeria’s GDP figures, arguing that much of the country’s true economic activity occurs outside official data. He points to Nigeria’s party…
