Former Minister of External Affairs, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, has criticized Nigeria’s designation as a partner country by BRICS, stating that the nation deserves full membership in the multinational bloc. Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, January 20, the political science professor described the status granted to Nigeria as a slight on the country, […]
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Nigeria has joined BRICS as a partner country, aiming to leverage economic opportunities and foster trade, investment, and global collaboration. Nigeria has officially joined BRICS to become the ninth partner country with Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Thailand, Uganda, and Uzbekistan. This is just as experts have raised concerns about what it means to be […]
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US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose 100 percent tariffs on imports from BRICS countries if they replace the dollar in global trade. The BRICS is an intergovernmental organisation comprising nine countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). While the US dollar is the most-used […]
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