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Thought Picnic: The Americe First Principle in Fort Hood
Saturday, 7 November 2009 10:21 P GMT+01
The trigger for the killings at Fort Hood was pulled long before the guns went off, can the family of the US Army be a family of siblings that feel equal and respected no matter their diversity?
Thought Picnic: AFRICOM another swamp for lethal mosquitoes
Tuesday, 28 July 2009 8:16 P GMT+01
AFRICOM has no combat mission in Africa but is deploying the Human Terrain System using a defence contractor to map out the core of what makes African tick.
Child twice raped by boys and parental abandonment
Sunday, 26 July 2009 11:23 P GMT+01
The plight of children caught in unfortunate circumstances who become victims of old cultural norms.
A child of 8 is raped by 4 boys and her parents abandoned her for shame. Shame on the parents.
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Ghana: No antibodies for this virus - Obama's speech
Sunday, 12 July 2009 3:14 A GMT+01
What we should not lose sight of from President Obama's speech to the Ghanaian parliament is that it is the first time a Western leader has been able to speak the truth to African leaders and not have blow-back.
Against Obama they have no antibodies.
Archbishop thought child sexual abuse was not criminal
Thursday, 28 May 2009 10:09 P GMT+01
And the Archbishop said, "We all considered sexual abuse of minors as a moral evil, but had no understanding of its criminal nature."
Thought Picnic: A malaise of inexactitudes
Saturday, 7 March 2009 1:21 P GMT+01
The My Pikin issue is just an extreme manifestation of a malaise we have with not being exact.
Nigeria: Pfizer reaches settlement
Monday, 2 March 2009 4:02 P GMT+01
Pfizer has reached a settlement in principle with Kano State concerning the flawed drug trial of trovafloxacin in 1996 but this is one of two cases in court.
Thought Picnic: Drawing the line
Tuesday, 24 February 2009 6:40 P GMT+01
We draw the lines at something but in the process we seem to draw lines round others without consideration of the lines the others might have drawn.
In commenting about a contemporary issues of auctioning a virginity I explore drawing lines.
Unbelievable returns might mask a Ponzi Scheme
Wednesday, 18 February 2009 1:18 A GMT+01
Another high powered investment mogul is arrested for investment fraud - the question is how many other high yield investment programmes are really Ponzi Schemes with the money of the very rich and powerful?
Nigeria: Courts give Diaspora the vote
Tuesday, 10 February 2009 10:48 A GMT+01
The force of Diaspora is getting the vote and the right to participate in the political process from abroad.
In the last 2 weeks Nigerians & South Africans may and the South Koreans assuredly can.
Nigeria: Pfizer, we are NOT lab rats
Thursday, 5 February 2009 9:26 P GMT+01
The case Nigerians to the US courts about a faulty Pfizer drug trial in Nigeria has been given leave to continue.
I would hope the ethical and moral issues would gain weight over the legal arguments.
The message in President Obama's inaugural speech
Tuesday, 20 January 2009 5:29 A GMT+01
One message many should hear clearly is one where America is ready to stand up for the yearning for freedom of all the peoples of the world.
Obama Inauguration: The message to Africa
Tuesday, 20 January 2009 12:18 A GMT+01
If President Obama's inauguration speech touches on Africa, it should be the opportunity to speak the truth.
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.
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.
Nigeria: Living on the Slave Coast
Thursday, 6 November 2008 4:58 P GMT+01
The fact that people in power can abuse their office and privilieges with impunity shows how uncivilised Nigeria is and why we are way off from having an Obama-like person to inspire us.
We are back in the Slave Coast.
The man by Irving Wallace
Wednesday, 5 November 2008 10:00 A GMT+01
From fiction to reality, race might matter but we now have to transcend race.
Cometh the man - President-elect Barack Obama
Wednesday, 5 November 2008 6:18 A GMT+01
The man comes to make history anew - Congratulations! Senator Barack Obama.
Senator Barack Obama
Tuesday, 4 November 2008 10:35 A GMT+01
Finally, the day has come for destiny's child to rise - Senator Barack Obama is the man whose time has come to lead the world to a new beginning - it all depends on if Americans are bold enough to make that choice.
America: John McCain is NOT the man
Monday, 3 November 2008 9:39 P GMT+01
John McCain has by his actions, decisions and choices made the choice for me - he is not the man for the moment, he is not the one to take America to a higher place.
Nigeria: Jonathan Elendu - Confusing Western naïveté for great danger
Monday, 27 October 2008 6:45 A GMT+01
The arrest of American-resident Jonathan Elendu of Elendu Reports on his family visit to Nigeria shows how we naively think our liberal Western ideas and values protect us from menace in back home.
Rising from the Ashes of the Bushes
Tuesday, 21 October 2008 3:55 P GMT+01
If we are to rise from the ashes of the Bushes in terms of the state than America and the world is today, we cannot send the Republican bull to clean up the china closet of chaos they have formented.
Credit crunch: Lazarus comes forth
Tuesday, 14 October 2008 1:37 P GMT+01
The man was dead, the ladies wept, he was entombed till the man came and had the tomb opened can called out the dead man - a cash injection of over a trillion Euros has brought the markets back to life.
Luc Montagnier takes the Nobel Prize for isolating HIV
Monday, 6 October 2008 4:14 P GMT+01
Luc Montagnier can laugh all he wants as he is recognised with a Nobel Prize for the isolation of HIV.
Bailout: Manufacturing Consent for a rotten deal
Tuesday, 30 September 2008 3:43 A GMT+01
How far would the propaganda go to force us to accept this bailout without telling us the truth of who it is really helping?
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