August 02
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Rigged... But Give Devil His Due [column]
Zimbabwe Independent
THAT this week's general elections results were discreetly rigged through a chaotic and flawed electoral process, before you even factor in the decisive shenanigans of the shadowy... Read more »
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Govt Was Wrong to Host Bashir At AU Summit [opinion]
African Arguments
A July editorial in The Sunday Trust opined that the Nigerian government was right to host the Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir during a recent African Union (AU) summit despite... Read more »
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Can Robert Sirleaf's Resignation Stop Corruption? [editorial]
NEWS
Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee has suggested that the son of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Robert Sirleaf, should resign as Chairman of the National Oil Company of Liberia... Read more »
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Observers' Polls Barometer Too Simplistic [editorial]
Zimbabwe Independent
The long-awaited general elections have finally been undertaken and although all official results have not been released, it looks like President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF... Read more »
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Mai Jukwa Finally Takes Our Cue [column]
Zimbabwe Independent
Muckraker saw a flyer from Zanu PF councillor for Ward 5, Abraham Samushonga. He said his party would "Indeginize (sic), Empower, Develop and Create Employment". Read more »
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Free but Not Fair! [editorial]
Zimbabwe Independent
Now that the results are being declared in this week's general elections, showing the MDC-T has been bruisingly defeated, Zanu PF is predictably basking in the glow of their... Read more »
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A New Economic Model for Africa [opinion]
New Zimbabwe
A BLOODLESS revolution is silently taking place in Zimbabwe. President Mugabe's Indigenisation of the land and the economy will set a precedent for the creation of a forerunning,... Read more »
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Time to Show Leadership in Defeat, Mr Tsvangirai [editorial]
The Herald
THE absence of violence before, during and after the harmonised elections posed a headache to Morgan Tsvangirai and company as it put their plans of using violence as the reason... Read more »
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Let Kenyans Discuss Oil Find [column]
The Star
That Tullow Oil Plc and its affiliated companies have found substantial quantities of oil which are commercially viable is indeed good news. It is even better news that it is... Read more »
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No Summer School This Year? [editorial]
The Point
We were left wondering after reading reports from a local newspaper of a purported memo discouraging school authorities from holding summer school studies this year. Read more »
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No Room for Lazy People in Hospitality Business - Okusi [opinion]
Vanguard
Taibat Morenike Okusi is an all rounder in the hospitality industry in Nigeria, having served in all sections ranging from front office to house keeping before berthing in the... Read more »
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In Politics We Are Amiss - in Economics, We're Amiss [opinion]
Vanguard
A friend took me to task last week on what he described as a "notorious" bias against the current President by the Nigerian media. To him, many commentators have not shown enough... Read more »
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Kenya Needs a New Cybercrime Strategy [opinion]
The Star
The theatre of war as we know it has changed. The skies are now filled with drones manned by a cyborg somewhere armed only with a joystick, a soft touch keyboard and a High... Read more »
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Big-Bang Disruption - Econet, Telecel Beware [opinion]
Zimbabwe Independent
IT'S all too easy to get lost in the emotional storm surrounding the barney between Telecel Zimbabwe and Econet , Zimbabwe's top two network operators, missing the real issues in... Read more »
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Travel Advice for Heroes Holidays [opinion]
The Herald
SHORTLY, a lot of people will be travelling within the country as we celebrate our 33rd Heroes holiday. We would like to urge all road users to be "heroes" by preventing all... Read more »
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Time to Press the Reset Button On Climate Change [opinion]
Greenpeace
I'm sitting in my office in full winter wear - heavy jacket, gloves, the works. But suddenly it gets too warm and I have to take all of these off. It leaves me baffled, are we in... Read more »
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Let Political Leaders Be Careful [opinion]
Vanguard
ALHAJI Bamaga Tukur, the former Chief Executive of the Nigerian Ports Authority, former Executive Governor of Gongola State, the only individual African to have been given the... Read more »
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Stop This Igbo Bashing in Lagos [opinion]
Vanguard
WHEN Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola was sworn in as the Governor of Lagos State, to take over from his mentor, I was one of those who vouched for him, urging my friends in our... Read more »
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Charly Boy Writes 'A Bullet for the Pope", Speaks Out On Gay Issues [opinion]
Vanguard
The first 20 years of my life, I seriously had this dream of being a priest. I was overfed with an overdose of religion which has always been a very serious business in my family.... Read more »
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Where Is the President I Voted For? [opinion]
NEWS
Liberia! A loving country and sweet as it was considered, at the start of the 80s encountered its first and perhaps most difficult and then bloodiest political shift with the... Read more »
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A Good Speech Without a Recipe [opinion]
NEWS
I am a student of Biology but I have keen interest in politics. Not that I want to be a politician, but as a Liberian citizen, I made it my habit to follow local and international... Read more »
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Taking Youth Devt to the Next Level [opinion]
This Day
It is a very significant fact for our national project today that Nigeria can rightly be considered as a country of young people. This is because more than 70% of Nigeria's total... Read more »
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A Case for 'True' Federalism [opinion]
Premium Times
No topic has generated as much interest in the ongoing bogus constitution amendment process as the issue of local government autonomy. That we have embarked on wholesale amendment... Read more »
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Teaching Children the Virtue of Self Confidence [opinion]
Daily Trust
There is still this debate on whether curriculum on virtue should be taught in school or not. I do not know if it should either, but one thing I know however, is that it is first... Read more »
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The Wicked Step Mother [opinion]
Daily Trust
The length some women go in maltreating their step children boggles the mind and makes one to question the inherent compassion in women. Read more »
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