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August 2007



A barking rich bitch

Friday, 31 August 2007 3:12 P GMT+01
A grand dame leaves the highest proportion of her fortune to her dog. This, I think is not the way to depart to the great beyond.

The shabby handling of the Naira redenomination

Monday, 27 August 2007 12:37 P GMT+01
The Presidency could have shown more integrity and maturity in handling their discontent with the Naira redenomination exercise, but they could not rise to that standard of civility.

Oosterpark in the morning

Saturday, 25 August 2007 6:03 P GMT+01
They were much older, looking happier and fitter, going about good things in life and they were the only ones in the park at 8:00AM

New Age Evangelist?

Friday, 24 August 2007 8:27 A GMT+01
Lay appointments raise eyebrows.

Disgraceful police behaviour

Thursday, 23 August 2007 4:49 P GMT+01
The police should go about their lawful duties fairly, justly and without reproach - it should not be too much to ask especially if you are an ethnic minority in Amsterdam.

$6Billion to keep youth in Africa with boring and farming

Wednesday, 22 August 2007 5:53 P GMT+01
$6 Billion is earmarked to encourage the youth to stay in West Africa rather than emigrate to the West with boring holes and farming. I think not!

Pissed Dr. Beetroot stole my liver

Tuesday, 21 August 2007 9:35 P GMT+01
It would appear the ailing SA Health Minister jumped a liver transplant queue with the encouragement of the President whilst she was an alcoholic to boot.

Damn the Mugabe apologists

Sunday, 19 August 2007 9:50 P GMT+01
I could not believe that the SADC leaders in Zambia could not bring any pressure to bear on Robert Mugabe about the problems in his country. How come?

Lord Deedes Dies

Saturday, 18 August 2007 4:15 A GMT+01
Probably the most approachable journalist in generations, yet with deep conservative roots and great youthful fun. Lord Deedes dies at 94.

Dearly Bigoted: Anglican Church requires pre-marital HIV test

Friday, 17 August 2007 5:29 P GMT+01
The Nigerian Anglican Church now requires couples take an HIV test before they get married in church.

Clapping for the Zimbabwe Mugabe destroyed

Friday, 17 August 2007 5:23 P GMT+01
Rober Mugabe was the most applauded leader at a summit yesterday. Why?

Silly Dingo hooked by Nubian money boobs

Friday, 17 August 2007 4:58 P GMT+01
The tale of an Internet bride scam where a man believes he is getting married to a Liberian refugee in Mali who would offer him an $86,000 dowry. Beware of rich Internet brides or control your lust.

Obituary: Micheal Hill

Friday, 17 August 2007 5:57 A GMT+01
Micheal Hill, the father of the 3-year old girl kidnapped in Port Harcourt last month died of a heart attack last week. The ordeal must be attributable and the government really has to do something about that place and the criminality.

The testimony, an ordeal

Thursday, 16 August 2007 11:26 P GMT+01
A testimony about a kidnapping and spiritual activity.

That Thabo Mbeki Collective

Thursday, 16 August 2007 11:05 P GMT+01
The sacking of the South African Deputy Minister of Health points to a deeper symptom of celebrating African incompetence championed by African leaders.

The flaw of the covenant

Tuesday, 14 August 2007 10:37 P GMT+01
The Covenant University compulsory pre-graduation testing for pregnancy and HIV/AIDS suffers legal scrutiny and it would not be able to stand in any court in the land.

Surrendering her serpent seed

Tuesday, 14 August 2007 10:53 A GMT+01
Dressing in church can be better handled and managed than outright bans and badly made rules.

Viva Sierra-Leone

Monday, 13 August 2007 11:20 P GMT+01
Sierra-Leone conducts free,fair and credible elections, what has Nigeria now got for excuses?

A sense of detachment

Monday, 13 August 2007 11:07 P GMT+01
Should I visit Nigeria or am I just being soppy?

The music of dead white men

Sunday, 12 August 2007 11:22 P GMT+01
Celebrating science and music in Warsaw.

North Pole: If you believed ...

Sunday, 12 August 2007 9:57 A GMT+01
The Russians showed us Titanic footage for their visit to the bottom of the North Pole. What can we believe of all these nations?

The Polish brain drain

Sunday, 12 August 2007 12:17 A GMT+01
The Polish brain drain is evident, I think.

PAWIAK!

Saturday, 11 August 2007 2:11 P GMT+01
A museum documenting man's inhumanity to men seeking freedom and self-expression in a repressive and totalitarian state. History is repeating itself around the world today.

Warsaw arising

Saturday, 11 August 2007 5:16 A GMT+01
My first full day in Warsaw, sights, sounds and silliness.

Homosexuality in Nigeria - Condemning bigots who seek death

Friday, 10 August 2007 10:21 P GMT+01
Sharia Law has been used to coral 18 homosexuals in Northern Nigeria and some religionists want them to be condemned to death without reprieve. Get those people before their bigotry becomes a malignant cancer in our society.