By Yi Xin At the beginning of the new year, China and Nigeria continue their profound traditional friendship. Their exchanges ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Saturday that Nigeria has accepted the invitation to join BRICS as a partner country. The ministry disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja by ...

Brazil took over the BRICS presidency from Russia on Jan. 1 after it was decided at the Summit in Kazan, Russia, back in October, that the new category of “associate members” would be created ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria has been admitted as a “partner country” of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, according to Brazil, the group’s chair. BRICS was formed by Brazil ...

The introduction of Brics partnership is an expansion mechanism designed to bring in more participants without giving them full membership. It is akin to “observer” status. Brics partners can ...

It sees the BRICS as 'a unique platform for Nigeria to ... who around the same time attended a symposium in Abuja on the life and times of a friend and public intellectual (an event that I also ...