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February 2009
In community in diaspora
Thursday, 26 February 2009 9:45 P GMT+01
Diaspora is not at home and when abroad is not integrated as such.
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Nigeria: The embarrassment of maternal mortality
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 9:48 P GMT+01
It is not the fact that a woman gave birth to sextuplets that is of concern but that too many Nigerian women needlessly die at childbirth and Nigeria ranks second on the whole wide world.
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.
A mathematical reflection on Shrove Tuesday
Tuesday, 24 February 2009 4:25 P GMT+01
Just as the mathematicians tackled our financial system with formulae that has left our economies bereft that have now come after our pancakes with a formula for the perfect pancakes.
Really Not In My Local Shop Again
Thursday, 19 February 2009 11:48 P GMT+01
It appears the credit crunch is already crunching on places that cater for nostalgic needs of the Diaspora
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?
Thought Picnic: Kids having kids
Sunday, 15 February 2009 6:41 P GMT+01
Where children are having kids or people without means of support are having children - something has to give before this becomes a societal trend.
Nigeria: The telling silliness of silly tellers
Friday, 13 February 2009 2:32 P GMT+01
Recipients of remittances from abroad are seeing hell from stupid and ignorant tellers given instructions to extract more than the statutory information necessary to complete a transaction.
Caught between Paraskavedekatriaphobia and Cryophobia
Friday, 13 February 2009 10:28 A GMT+01
On Friday the 13th which is a very cold day in the Netherlands we are celebrating the Warm Pullover day where we put on a jumper, reduce the temperature in our buildings and make merry.
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.
100 Best Blogs for Learning About Africa
Friday, 6 February 2009 4:30 P GMT+01
Named as one of the 100 Best Blogs for Learning About Africa
Category: Commentary Nigeria
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.
Your mum inadvertently uses your computer
Tuesday, 3 February 2009 9:24 P GMT+01
About keeping your computer clean and keeping yourself out of trouble you cannot easily explain yourself out of.
Just another miserable old man
Monday, 2 February 2009 11:09 P GMT+01
A child that knows no boundaries has the ability to express itself to the point of creative genius or is it a case of just bad parenting.
Category: Commentary Britain
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