by SEYE ABIMBOLA* Lately, I have inundated myself with a series of incredibly enlightening dispatches from TED Talks. Listening to them, especially those related to international health and development has been a wonderful respite from my undesirably excessive clinical workload. I have been working at a assisted living community and it has been great. We… Read More »
This is an article I first read on Nigeria Village Square, but later found out that it was originally from ocnus.net. I thought to post it here for comments. I am not an expert on CFA, but I am trying to learn as much as possible about it. So I’m waiting for your comments! The… Read More »
I read an interview of blogger Steve Clemons by The Pakistani Spectator on the Ethical Blogger. This struck me, perhaps because I have been really busy these past few weeks. The best blogs — the most read blogs — are done by people who typically have multiple roles as academics, journalists, policy practitioners, think tank… Read More »
I spent the earlier hours of today reading blogs. There are blogs I normally read – I even have them on my google reader – but I thought I would explore a little. The result is below.
An article looks at Hitler’s health condition. I look at the article.
I woke up this morning with the song in my head, looked for it on Youtube, and decided to share it. He was recently interviewed by Larry King on CNN. I couldn’t find a link to the edition on the CNN website, but you can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes at the CNN podcasts… Read More »
BBC’s programme, From Our Own Correspondents, a programme that is a compendium of ‘personal reflections by BBC correspondents arround the world, features a special edition of the programme, presented by Alan Johnston, the former BBC Gaza correspondent who was help by the Army of Islam for 114 days. Click here to listen to the programme,… Read More »
Last week, Yoko Ono and Amnesty International celebrated the sale of 15,000 copies of a special album of John Lenon’s post-Beatles songs. Ono gave the rights to use all of the songs to Amnesty International. The album was made to raise money for the victims of the conflict in Dafur. The album, which was released… Read More »
I downloaded Andrew Mwenda’s TEDTalks presentation and watched it last night. One of his main arguments was that aid makes the government fat, and that because of aid, governments are more attentive to the World Bank and the IMF than to their own citizens. Let’s elaborate on the argument a bit: governments know from whom… Read More »
I just joined a Facebook group and I found the question ” Nigeria’s Movie Industry (Nollywood), Quality or Quantity?” on the discussion board of the group. I decided to contribute to the discussion. The contribution ran some lenght so I thought, Why not make a post out of it? So, here is it as a… Read More »