I just read in the current edition of Intelligent Life: Adichie’s follow-up to “Half of a Yellow Sun” is a collection of stories about Nigeria’s professional classes ans their struggle to cope with corruption, which infects every aspect of their lives from school exams to hospital treatment. The luckier ones can escape to a new… Read More »
Image via Wikipedia … but did not notify the legislature, or let his vice deputise for him. His lawyer, Mr Alex Izinyon interprets this excerpt of Section 145 of the Nigerian constitution: Whenever the President transmits to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representative a written declaration that he… Read More »
Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah, Princeton-based professor of philosophy, prepared and presented a programme on Barack Obama for the BBC World Service. The programme is titled Obama – Professor President.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Full transcript as prepared for delivery of President Barack Obama’s inaugural remarks on Jan. 20, 2009, at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have… Read More »
Mr Kunle Alake, the Dangote Group COO, tells BusinessDay that the textile industry in Nigeria cannot be viable, and he cites the usual suspect: smuggling. “The Nigerian textile industry is dead; it has been dead since the last 5 years. It cannot be resuscitated with N70 billion, those pushing for the resuscitation are only after… Read More »
Xan Rice of The Guardian interviews Asad ‘Booyah’ Abdulahi, a 42 year-old Somali pirate. Excerpts: I am 42 years old and have nine children. I am a boss with boats operating in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. … We give priority to ships from Europe because we get bigger ransoms. To get… Read More »
This did not really come as a surprise now, did it? The polls said it, the pundits called it, and the outpouring of passion underlined it. Despite talks of the Bradley effect people kept believing that the change that Mr Obama promised – and indeed epitomised – would be realised. Now that it really is,… Read More »
by Alfred Ochuma www.chekwas.wordpress.com The emergence of Barack obama as the first black presidential nominee of a major party in the U.S is no longer news – the news obviously is that the United States of America has once again re-assured the World that they are the world’s leading democracy. In the face of seeming… Read More »
In the concluding paragraph of the story: So Mr Obama in that respect is a gamble. But the same goes for Mr McCain on at least as many counts, not least the possibility of President Palin. And this cannot be another election where the choice is based merely on fear. In terms of painting a… Read More »
I just discovered the Project Syndicate site…. I am not yet done exploring it, but I think it promises to be interesting. The objectives, according to the home page, are: – bringing distinguished voices from across the world to local audiences everywhere; – strengthening the independence of printed media in transition and developing countries; –… Read More »