Often the hardest thing is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn – David Russel
Posted in Personal Growth on Jul 27th, 2008
No one ever expected Chief Moshood Abiola to spend one night in prison not to talk of four years. What had started like a poor joke was already turning into a terrible dream, and we all seemed helpless. At the height of our acute frustration, one of my good friends, Ike Okonta, a most distinguished […]
Posted in Personal Growth on Jul 24th, 2008
Rebels from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta deny taking millions of dollars from Nigeria’s national oil company. The allegation was made after Abubakar Yar’Adua, the head of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, told a national assembly committee that rebels had asked for a six million dollar monthly fee to refrain from […]
Posted in Personal Growth on Jul 23rd, 2008
The UN said the political parties in Zimbabwe have reached a consensus on holding crisis talks. UN Zimbabwe representative, Haile Menkerios, said President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai have settled on a draft agreement, which he described as “a first step”. It is hoped the agreement will be signed in the next 24 […]
Posted in Personal Growth on Feb 21st, 2008
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that the European Union’s police and justice mission to Kosovo is illegal. Responding to this is the European Union’s spokesperson for Janvier Solana the European Unions High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Christina Gallach.
Russia says that the unilateral decision of independence for Kosovo is in breach of the highest […]
Posted in Personal Growth on Feb 15th, 2008
The U.N Security Council agreed to Serbia’s request for an urgent meeting yesterday to discuss the expected declaration of independence by Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian leaders.
According to reports there seems to have been no breakthrough at yesterdays meeting. United Nations Security Council president Panamanian ambassador Ricardo Alberto Arias spoke on what was achieved at the meeting.
I […]
Posted in Personal Growth on Feb 14th, 2008
The only EU memeber that opposes the recognition of Kosovo is Cyprus . The country fears the recognition of Kosovo would be seen as a precedent that could lead to acceptance of the Turkish occupied northern part of the island.
Thanos Dokos from the think-tank Eliamep spoke on how the recognition of Kosovo could affect the […]
Posted in Personal Growth on Jan 28th, 2008
The split within the ranks of the main opposition party is back in the news. A former culture Minister Evangelos Venizelos has annouced plans to create a club within the party. The recent meeting between both parties to discuss a proposal ended in a cloud of discord. I met with the party leader George […]
Posted in Personal Growth on Jan 24th, 2008
The Greek cities of Volos and Larissa have won the right to host the 2013 Mediterranean games.
The CEO of Volos-Larissa Bidding Committe, Dionyssis Yagas on what the next step is:
To say the truth, its not something that concerns me, my job is over, The President and I have delivered and we are waiting to […]
Posted in Personal Growth on Nov 14th, 2007
The fires that ravaged Greece this summer killed 67 people and destroyed some 642,000 acres of forest and farmland, thousands of houses and barns, and countless people’s hopes and livelihoods. One tenth of Greece’s forest cover is gone; large tracts of countryside are at risk of depopulation. “These wounds will never heal,” Poulis mourns. “there are […]
Posted in Personal Growth on Oct 26th, 2007
In a strange turn of events, the police are holding a 55 year old stock breeder accused of killing two people. The murderer appeared to have had differences with one of the victims. He stormed a café armed with a shot gun and killed a 46 year old man, and then killed a 26 year […]
