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Latest tagged entries for 'POLITICS'
Nigeria: When women rage with the pudenda and the paps
Thursday, 30 April 2009 9:31 P GMT+01
The women are using unusual weapons of warfare to effect political dialogue and change, I think it would be very effective
Nigeria: Obasanjo's Hard Talk
Friday, 20 March 2009 7:58 P GMT+01
The ex-president of Nigeria - Olusegun Obasanjo was on Hard Talk and failed to answer the real questions.
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Nigeria: Ribadu and kids get bundled out of NIPSS graduation
Sunday, 23 November 2008 10:33 A GMT+01
The erstwhile EFCC chairman gets bundled out of the NIPSS graduation cermony after the government fails by all other means to stop his graduation. His wife, 6 children and his guests all get pulled out of the event too.
Adedibu, Half of Ibadanland, the man is no more
Wednesday, 11 June 2008 12:12 P GMT+01
The strongman of Ibadan, the elder thug that has plagued Oyo State with menace and with impunity - that power broker and peddler of the riotous mob - Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu has died.
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.
Inside China: Hatchlings of Democracy get nasty
Sunday, 23 March 2008 1:10 P GMT+01
The election for class monitor of 8-year olds in China reveals a lot more about the machinations and manipulation of democracy and the dangers that might be ahead.
In Nigeria, can wives make independent choices?
Friday, 21 March 2008 3:19 A GMT+01
A news story throws the spotlight on the husband-wife dynamic within a patriarchal hegemony.
I have a nano-dream
Monday, 21 January 2008 9:52 P GMT+01
As we commemorate the Martin Luther King Day 2008, I do not think we are any nearer fulfilling the words of that "I have a dream" speech given almost 45 years ago.
We have individuals, fine, but not great numbers of people who have really made it.
Back to James Blake and Rosa Parks - 1955 to 2006
Friday, 25 August 2006 1:50 A GMT+01
Black students are asked to give up their seats for white students 51 years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. America, we've got a serious problem.
Not leaving on a jet plane soon
Sunday, 13 August 2006 12:17 P GMT+01
The number of planned terror attacks have been foiled, we are told, with that comes greater paranoia from the United States than the terrorists themselves could have intended. It you as much as have any liq
A dead man dishonoured
Sunday, 13 August 2006 10:08 A GMT+01
The burial of Funsho Williams was not without event from the sermons given to the way his supporters allowed their egos to get in the way of letting their leader lie in state.
Sweet dreams are made of these
Wednesday, 9 August 2006 8:08 P GMT+01
How I learnt that I could control my dreams and what I have learnt from doing so.
Daytime television a cure for current news
Tuesday, 8 August 2006 2:42 P GMT+01
Well, I have gone off the news, my remote control deliberately misses every news channel as daytime television seems a welcome relief.
The doctor says good riddance
Thursday, 3 August 2006 7:14 P GMT+01
I think it was clear that losing the leadership of the Economic Management Team was also going to lose us a Foreign Minister. She was no doubt humiliated by the manner of her removal - This minister is above the fray with her dignity intact.
Mind that language
Thursday, 3 August 2006 9:08 A GMT+01
A study shows that the Dutch are not as proficient in other languages as we all assume them to be. In fact, other Europeans who speak other languages have a better grasp of the languages they speak than the Dutch. Could that be true?
A doctor without a patient
Wednesday, 2 August 2006 6:02 P GMT+01
After the reshuffle of six weeks ago which moved the technocrat finance minister to the foreign affairs minister, she now loses the leadership of the Economic Management Team whilst negotiating in that position in London.
Condi knows nothing about birth pangs
Saturday, 29 July 2006 2:04 A GMT+01
Bombs and hostilities continue as birth pangs of a new Middle-East as the midwife returns to the woman in travail and extended labour to probably deliver the baby still-born. No new Middle-East can emerge with this belligerence.
The new ball order - Football meritocracy
Friday, 23 June 2006 5:31 A GMT+01
The World Cup levels the playing field of political powers and undue influence - little countries make minced meat of behemoths and if you cannot play you get beaten and go home. The Olympics has nothing on the World Cup.
Arise! Sir easy
Saturday, 17 June 2006 11:37 P GMT+01
The Chairman of easyGroup of companies is knighted in the Queen's birthday honours list- I suppose a new business can come out of this accolade - easyHonours?
Insemination Tax Credit
Tuesday, 6 June 2006 5:08 P GMT+01
If the President of the United States is really serious about strong marriages, he should stop going after gay marriage and rather strengthen marriage through Insemination Tax Credits.
Old-age Rum's field day
Friday, 5 May 2006 9:43 P GMT+01
A hapless septuagenarian was heckled during an important speech to his supporters, then accused of lying. How rotten! This is in empathetic concern and commiseration. Why badger a poor old man?
Why Brussels doesn't work
Sunday, 23 April 2006 8:25 A GMT+01
Europe and Brussels are synonymous, Brussels is a microcosm of Europe. What works works and what doesn't grates. We, the people of Europe have to protest vehemently to be heard but no guarantee of good results. This is Europe through storage lockers.
The people are high on opium - V
Friday, 24 February 2006 10:59 P GMT+01
I am saddened to see that the Mohammed cartoon saga is still costing lives around the world. We now need to examine the conseqences of exercising the freedom of expression. It is time also for Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten to take some responsibility.
No harsh tongue for Mrs Verdonk
Monday, 23 January 2006 8:48 A GMT+01
The Dutch have come up with a very innovative public places ban; whist we are still trying to stomach the smoking ban in some public places, we now have the prospect of banning other languages but Dutch in public places.
Setting democracy ablaze with gas
Tuesday, 3 January 2006 8:24 P GMT+01
This little Ukraine problem of gas supplies has more far-reaching consequences that could affect the whole basis of our democracy
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