Nigeria officially joins BRICS as partner country, not full member

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 a partner country. They have also questioned if that is the best for Nigeria’s standing globally. BRICS, an intergovernmental organisation, and originally an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, and China, had expanded in 2010 to include South Africa.

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