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December 2008
The Audacity of Hope
Tuesday, 30 December 2008 7:03 P GMT+01
The Audacity of Hope reveals in glaring detail the audacity of a politician to think through issues in search of unity rather that division and rancour.
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The verge of pleasurable disgust
Monday, 29 December 2008 5:53 A GMT+01
I was importuned as I made my way to the beach, disgust does not begin to explain my revulsion.
Category: Commentary Sexuality
Christmas is today, the feast of thieves
Saturday, 27 December 2008 7:43 P GMT+01
Christmas in the UK is no more about Christ the saviour that was born but about the cheaper, reduced, worth less or worthless stuff you can get.
Category: Commentary Britain
Nigeria: Sack that slovenly Senate
Thursday, 25 December 2008 9:09 P GMT+01
The Nigerian Senate has only passed 8 out of 120 bills in 2008. They have excuses but they do not wash - they should be sacked.
Merry Christmas, enjoy the wine
Thursday, 25 December 2008 12:24 P GMT+01
Wishing you a fruity Christmas
Guinea: African leaders are indeed mortal
Tuesday, 23 December 2008 4:28 P GMT+01
The death of President Lansana Conté of Guinea brings us back to an analysis of the problems of leadership in Africa.
The day I was born
Monday, 22 December 2008 11:06 A GMT+01
My father took me down memory lane to the day I was born.
Why I Blog About Africa
Sunday, 21 December 2008 1:08 P GMT+01
I have been tagged about Why I Blog About Africa
Four before three, I am 43 today!
Sunday, 21 December 2008 2:11 A GMT+01
A note on my 43rd birthday.
Category: Commentary
Watching the second hand tick away
Saturday, 20 December 2008 6:39 P GMT+01
Watches for time when a net book needs a bag a long way from Africa where the essence of time defeats every Western purpose for time.
Thoughts that closed my year
Friday, 19 December 2008 10:45 P GMT+01
The year closes with my thoughts arranging my perspective to lots of things
Category: Commentary
Swaffelen is the Dutch word of the year
Tuesday, 16 December 2008 3:40 A GMT+01
The Dutch have chosen a word of the year, I cannot understand why, but each their own. My word is reprobate.
Madoff's made off, with your money
Monday, 15 December 2008 10:52 P GMT+01
Using impeccable creditials to mastermind a Ponzi scheme must be the ultimate confidence trickster's game.
Some people are already getting padded with defribillators - God help them.
This diva don't do encores
Monday, 15 December 2008 9:04 P GMT+01
Dionne Warwick was in town and I went to see her in concert.
Category: Commentary
Dragging the Christmas tree home
Sunday, 14 December 2008 6:04 A GMT+01
I know Christmas is about, they are buying humongous trees they cannot carry with gadgets that would only be used once a year
Feeling like a Saturday morning
Saturday, 13 December 2008 11:06 P GMT+01
I wonder why my body clock works so differently on Saturday after the regimen of Monday to Friday.
Category: General
To Victor Yagba
Thursday, 11 December 2008 2:35 P GMT+01
This is a basic analysis of a typical 419 scam letter, anyone with commonsense should know they can make nothing of this, but many still get caught out.
Category: Commentary Nigeria
A Parship looking like a parsnip
Thursday, 11 December 2008 9:13 A GMT+01
Do dating sites have much to offer or are they just money spinners for those who pretend to offer the possibility of love?
Five years of blogging - Remember the children
Monday, 8 December 2008 2:23 P GMT+01
My five years of blogging is dedicated to the children who naturally must be loved but are living through hell, some of whom have lost their lives.
Nigeria: Eyesight linked to fraud and corruption
Sunday, 7 December 2008 6:19 P GMT+01
I am utterly sceptical of the idea that fraud in an agency in Nigeria is linked to poor eyesight and not deficient character and the lack of principles.
The approach is wrong and the intention is insincere if not dishonest.
Shinseki: Embracing change to remain relevant
Sunday, 7 December 2008 4:02 P GMT+01
The tapping of General Eric Shinseki for the post Secretary of Veteran Affairs in President Obama's cabinet is quite significant for the person and the thinking of the person appointed than the position itself.
Still getting used to life in the Netherlands
Sunday, 7 December 2008 7:41 A GMT+01
Those little things that fill foreigners with pique in the Netherlands by comparing home and abroad.
Category: Commentary Netherlands
Nigeria: Torture defended as standard police procedure
Thursday, 4 December 2008 4:13 A GMT+01
The case of a man who supposedly committed suicide in police custody after reporting a crime seems to reveal more about abhorrent police practices that make you sick. Torture is defended as a necessary toll of detective work.
The Nero of Siam
Tuesday, 2 December 2008 12:14 A GMT+01
The events in Siam give great cause for concern not so much for democracy but for the monarchy that migh well begin to make itself irrelevant to its subjects.
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