#BRICS2024: Nigeria’s shameful absence By Femi Akomolafe

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    Whichever way we throw it around, Nigeria, the self-touted Giant of Africa, absence from the meeting of the most significant geopolitical event of 2024 (#BRICS2024) is shameful. It is an embarrassment to the government of the now apparently clueless administration of President Bola Tinubu.

    To any Nigerian, patriotic or not, and of whatever partisan political or ideological persuasion, to watch South Africa, Egypt, and Ethiopia leading Africa into such an important meeting as BRICS, sans their country, must be a very bitter pill to swallow a spectacle too painful to watch!

    How could the lot of a country that until a few years ago was the leading light of the Black race and the uncontested leader of the African continent be left out of BRICS?

    To those who were not old enough, it was Nigeria, especially under the military leaders General Murtala Mohammed and General Olusegun Obasanjo, who, through their young, handsome, and dynamic Foreign Affairs Commissioner,

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