A journey through life
Posted in Africa on Aug 28th, 2008
Former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Walter Carrington was recently in the country where he gave in-depth analysis of American Politics to enable Nigerians better understand the system, its influences and how the elections are financed. This became pertinent given the recent fund raising event organised for Presidential hopeful and Democratic nominee Barak Obama.
The [...]
Posted in Africa on Aug 16th, 2008
The President of Nigeria Umaru Musa Yar’Adua marked a year in office recently, where he admitted to trying to get to know his country, Nigeria. Really!!! Very well said, In any case there is no need to lose sleep; the President has three more years to go. So while Nigerians watch as their president processes [...]
Posted in Africa on Aug 15th, 2008
The latest craze in Nigeria is the mad rush by Nigerian companies and government agencies to appear to sponsor specific programs, or advertise on CNN. While I can excuse and defend a few of them, I beg to declare that most of it is absolute hogwash. I do not know what statistics gave these sponsors [...]
Posted in Women on Aug 13th, 2008
THE ruling Zimbabwe’s African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) yesterday said the ongoing power-sharing risked collapse because of differences with the opposition over roles in a new government.
Marathon talks between the ZANU-PF and opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), seen as Zimbabwe’s best chance to end a post-election crisis and raise hopes of economic recovery, have [...]
