It is axiomatic that in the raging global war against the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), each country is a battle front. The leadership in each country constitutes the command structure that is expected to mobilise men and equipment to fight the public health enemy until victory is achieved. Nigeria should take its own battle front seriously for the health of its people and because its action is very strategic for Africa in the unfolding crisis. Unlike the global crises of recent years in which world powers were expected to provide leadership, the war against COVID-19 provides a different situation in which…

The suggestion that the Chinese engineered extant coronavirus pandemic for economic advantage is highly preposterous. I don't think we should touch it at all, not even with the proverbial long pole. For, even if the Chinese had just stayed the course prior coronavirus, their leadership of the global economic system was a question of time. The bitter truth is that the US may have reached the apogee of its power; and its decline may had begun to manifest in the Donald Trump phenomenon. No empire lasts forever. This is the lesson of history! The UK was the undisputed leader of…

There’s so much I did two months ago that seems ludicrous now. I was committed to dying without ever learning the Electric Slide. You know how everyone has a thing, one of those random eccentricities people associate with you? I was the “guy who always sits during the Electric Slide.” Do you realize how resolute you must be, as a 41-year-old black American man, to attend decades worth of cookouts, birthday parties, game nights, family reunions and wedding receptions and not allow yourself to learn the World’s Mildest Line Dance? But on March 17, four days after my most recent…

Many people blame the coronavirus epidemic on globalization, and say that the only way to prevent more such outbreaks is to de-globalize the world. Build walls, restrict travel, reduce trade. However, while short-term quarantine is essential to stop epidemics, long-term isolationism will lead to economic collapse without offering any real protection against infectious diseases. Just the opposite. The real antidote to epidemic is not segregation, but rather cooperation. Epidemics killed millions of people long before the current age of globalization. In the 14th century there were no airplanes and cruise ships, and yet the Black Death spread from East Asia…