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Blockbuster snake-oil anti-depressant drugs
Wednesday, 27 February 2008 4:14 P GMT+01
The drugs for managing depression might just cause more depression when we realise that we are being given pills that could well be placebos to make us feel better for a huge price.
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Nigeria: We must make the case at the Supreme Court
Wednesday, 27 February 2008 9:28 A GMT+01
With the dismissal of the election petitions yesterday, we have the opportunity to review the judgement and make a better case before the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
YouTube versus Islam - Between discernment and ignorance
Tuesday, 26 February 2008 5:54 A GMT+01
When Pakistan banned access to YouTube to avoid access to content that might be offensive to Islam the blocked global access to the site.
I fear for how the protection of religion ridicules religion even more.
The need for fairness in taxes
Monday, 25 February 2008 11:08 P GMT+01
After filing my taxes, I see a compelling need for tax reform and more accountability from my government about how the taxes are spent.
Nigeria: Cut the cake society
Monday, 25 February 2008 4:36 A GMT+01
Just another snapshot of what I would term a Nigerian malaise or maybe I am just reading too much into a Nigerian norm.
John McCain with a fistful of ashes for Castro's grave
Sunday, 24 February 2008 6:58 P GMT+01
Senator McCain, 71 wishes Fidel Castro, 81 dead, when people play around with such ideas of mortality like that, their feeling of invulnerability might betray them beyond redemption.
Fidel Castro: At a time of his own choosing
Friday, 22 February 2008 11:54 P GMT+01
Despite all that was done to unseat him for over 40 years, Fidel Castro of Cuba chose to go at a time of his own choosing - it is a rare but seriously enviable position to be in.
Earth-queers quaking in Israel
Thursday, 21 February 2008 6:16 P GMT+01
I have just had my fill of reprehensible religious and political leaders who seek a minority to blame for natural disasters.
How can gays have caused earthquakes in the Holy Lands?
Lucky is on the loose
Thursday, 21 February 2008 8:33 A GMT+01
Due to varied bail conditions, Lucky Igbinedion has escaped prison to be welcomed by his deluded people.
Wikileaks - The right to know
Wednesday, 20 February 2008 7:44 P GMT+01
Wikileaks is a site under threat for the reason that it gives succour to the whistleblower to post documents that expose practices/activities that normally would not be revealed.
The site supports the compelling concept of the right to know.
They called the child ...
Wednesday, 20 February 2008 5:07 P GMT+01
Confiding in a friend; when your emotions are mixed about naming a child, it is wiser not to put voice to what might look an appropriate name.
Nigeria: Percentage Allowance Legislators
Tuesday, 19 February 2008 7:53 A GMT+01
The salaries of the Nigerian legislators has been approved but looking at the allowances makes really interesting reading in a country where 90% live on less than $2 a day.
Cult of the Frozen Cow
Monday, 18 February 2008 2:41 P GMT+01
Being spared the detail of food processing can be merciful as we learn that 64.9 kilograms of beef have to be recalled in the States - some of that beef could be two years old.
Nigeria: Governor's reputation goes up in hospital flames
Sunday, 17 February 2008 2:04 P GMT+01
A new hospital in Maiduguri completed in June 2006 had stayed closed because the state governor was waiting to get the President to cut the tape.
It has now been razed and the governor laments the loss of his reputation, he has more to lose.
Today, We are Kosovans
Sunday, 17 February 2008 10:53 A GMT+01
We are one with Kosovo on the birth of their new nation.
Nigeria: Abusing the Honours System
Saturday, 16 February 2008 6:46 P GMT+01
The Speaker of the House who has only been in office for 4 months gets conferred with a national honour and people are complaining that the honour is of too low a class.
I say, he has no track record to be deserving of any honour yet.
Microsoft: Give me English in the Netherlands
Friday, 15 February 2008 6:03 P GMT+01
When Microsoft sends me email that acknowledges my professional use of trheir services, I want to be addressed in English regardless of the fact that live in the Dutch.
I want the option to choose as request, it is surely not a complaint.
Who would be Lucky's friend?
Friday, 15 February 2008 5:51 P GMT+01
The bail conditions set for Lucky Igbinedion, the ex-governor of Edo State in Nigeria would needs some seriously real friends to stand as surety.
None seem to be coming forward.
Academic theologians creating Islamic disquiet
Monday, 11 February 2008 6:11 P GMT+01
When church leaders state opinions about other religions in academic lectures to erudite audiences they set off a chain of adverse reactions in the general uninvited public that condemns the leaders to possible ignominy and derision.
The Lounge
Monday, 11 February 2008 1:38 A GMT+01
They were going away for the weekend and they looked really prepared to be together.
The Archbishop of CounterBury
Saturday, 9 February 2008 3:30 P GMT+01
The Archbishop of Canterbury has created a storm that is he now stuck in the miiddle of - he suggested Sharia Law in the UK is inevitable.
Nigeria sets no good examples for Africa
Tuesday, 5 February 2008 11:14 P GMT+01
Some of the problems in Africa exist because countries like Nigeria set bad examples which take away their moral authority to tackle other problems in the continent.
Scanning Starbucks' Napkins
Tuesday, 5 February 2008 12:22 A GMT+01
A stopover coffee at Duisburg in a Starbucks café reveals a little more about the so-called green message and the different reality.
Punish Spain hard for Sport racism
Monday, 4 February 2008 11:00 P GMT+01
The Spaniards have form when it comes to the racist abuse of people of colour at sporting events, the episode in Barcelona during a Formula 1 practice session should not be taken in isolation.
Saving my uninsured legs
Saturday, 2 February 2008 9:14 P GMT+01
Whilst crossing a road an accident happened - I was not involved but by circumstance, I could have been the cause.
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