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April 2008
Ronaldo learns he cannot brag about drag
Wednesday, 30 April 2008 1:54 P GMT+01
With time on his hands and a libido that befits his football prowess Ronaldo picks up three prostitutes who eventually turn out to be transvestites.
Josef Fritzl: A man apart, an arch-demon indeed
Tuesday, 29 April 2008 6:35 P GMT+01
The case of Josef Fritzl touches on families, communities, society and humanity.
He might not be wanted in the company of all that is good and decent, but he is still a product of some society that comprises human-beings.
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I need a early-bird paperboy
Tuesday, 29 April 2008 6:30 P GMT+01
I need my newspaper and it does not arrive early enough for breakfast.
Category: General
Living wage - a dimension to fighting corruption
Tuesday, 29 April 2008 1:20 P GMT+01
I do wonder if the government took on the responsibility of paying a living wage to its staff the corrupt practices we experience would be reduced.
However, there are those who abuse their positions of authority, we need to find a way to deal with t
Category: Commentary
Grand Inga Project: Another White Elephant for Black Africa
Monday, 28 April 2008 7:37 P GMT+01
The Grand Inga Project that involves building that largest hydro-electric dam in the world in DR Congo is sounding like exciting news but it has nothing for Africans in general.
It should be aborted forthwith.
Nigeria: Why Poor Countries Are Poor
Monday, 28 April 2008 12:40 P GMT+01
I write about the role of bureaucracies in limiting the ability for developing countries to latch onto progressive economic growth and productive programmes for development.
The Netherlands rises above sea level
Monday, 28 April 2008 11:52 A GMT+01
We have all left the Netheralnds for at least a week, because holidays have given us a rare 2-day week.
Category: General Netherlands
Nigeria: Kick out all foreign British Airways staff
Sunday, 27 April 2008 3:05 P GMT+01
The developments regarding the British Airways treatment of Nigerians are coming to a head, some serious action needs to be taken about their attitude and the revelation that it is institutionally racist.
Some African development issues are covered.
Sun shines hard in Gran Canaria
Saturday, 26 April 2008 5:54 P GMT+01
Back to Gran Canaria for just over 2 weeks.
Category: Commentary
Maybe was a cornflake boy
Thursday, 24 April 2008 9:31 P GMT+01
Our most erudite and esteemed scientists have found out that a bowl of cereal at breakfast is the sure way to having a boy.
Boy! I am bowled, over :-)
Does a Darwin Award await Father Carli?
Wednesday, 23 April 2008 2:29 A GMT+01
A charitable act to break a record of flying with balloons has had a priest probably marooned or lost at sea. Many themes come to play including that crazy idea of Mecca time.
Nigeria: Yar'Adua healthy from Germany with love
Sunday, 20 April 2008 8:04 P GMT+01
President Yar'Adua is bundled off to Germany in haste for an allergic reaction - it seems there is no one to treat the President for any simple ailment in Nigeria.
The entity is Nigeria, the identity is Nigerian
Sunday, 20 April 2008 5:29 P GMT+01
Nigeria would continue to be a single entity from which we all derive the identity of being Nigerian - it is time for us to accept that fact and begin to use it for nation-building.
Nigerian scammers will always be a minority
Sunday, 20 April 2008 2:02 P GMT+01
The arrest of Nigerian scammers in Spain leaves one disappointed and ashamed of people who bring the great name of our country into disrepute.
We cannot however shirk from our ambassadorial duties of keeping the good name of Nigeria respected.
Nigeria: Senator frogjumps her back wall
Friday, 18 April 2008 8:54 A GMT+01
The more Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello garners newsprint inches the more embarrassing her case becomes, it is an utter disgrace to say the least.
Nigeria: Senate safety from blame not guns
Monday, 14 April 2008 5:31 P GMT+01
The Senate clears a senator from blame about receiving money for a junket but that did not stop a policemen from blowing his head off where the Senate President was partying for being made the custodian of guns.
Olympics: I have a facial on the 8th of August
Sunday, 13 April 2008 5:17 P GMT+01
Looks like a few of us have scheduling conflicts that we would not be watching the opening of the Summer Olympics in Beijing. Do not mention Tibet or Darfur.
Zimbabwe: Mugabe is a coward
Sunday, 13 April 2008 4:23 P GMT+01
Robert Mugabe is coward, he cannot bear to see he has lost and he cannot accept the fact that he has lost - he is afraid of the truth of democracy in Zimbabwe and he must not be allowed to change the truth.
Verdonk: Her misplaced pride
Sunday, 13 April 2008 2:01 P GMT+01
Mrs. Verdonk has launched her own political party but I contend it has nothing to offer the people of the Netherlands nor does it have the ideas for contemporary politics.
Boycott British Airways
Friday, 11 April 2008 6:26 A GMT+01
British Airways has blundered agin and this time with the maltreatment of Nigerians. It is time for us to rise up against this behemoth of bumbling and give it one where it hurts - do not fly that airline if you can help it.
Olympic torch lights up Tibetan cause
Wednesday, 9 April 2008 1:33 A GMT+01
If anything, the Chinese have been naive to think they could pull off the Olympics without the spotlight being shone on their internal affairs including Tibet.
They should have known someone would take advantage of the Olympic year for this.
The changing ceremonies of death
Tuesday, 8 April 2008 8:34 P GMT+01
A funeral and down at the crematorium between the traditional and the modern.
A flying visit to Lancaster
Tuesday, 8 April 2008 5:30 P GMT+01
The difference between staying with a family and staying in a hotel in the country is laid bare in my flying visit to Lancaster in the weekend.
Snuff out that Olympic torch already
Sunday, 6 April 2008 9:50 P GMT+01
Keep that Olympic flame in China or snuff it out already.
Another dreadful in-flight toddler
Sunday, 6 April 2008 12:25 P GMT+01
I have had it with distressed children that take the joy out of air travel.
Category: Commentary
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