The decision by the government to retain the services of a public relations firm to improve Kenya's image is misguided and a waste of taxpayers' funds.
Corporate stewardship in a battered economy is not a bed of roses.
Many years before Englishmen invented the phrase devil's alternative, the folks in my village were singing a local folksong in celebration of impossible choices. We inherited this old song from our grandparents and used to sing it on our way to primary school. It was something like:
In European literature, there is the famous character Faust created by the great German writer Goethe. Seeking infinite knowledge and more, Faust made a fateful pact with the Devil. You can guess the rest of what happened.
Former President Moi was audacious enough to share his theories on environmental issues with us last Wednesday.
On December 3, President Kibaki was returning home from the Commonwealth Conference in Trinidad & Tobago, Kofi Annan was in town to continue with his nannying-duties on us, Bill Gates came to follow up on his charity activities and Raila Odinga was at a Knut conference.
Najib Balala informs Kenyans that 2012 will be a battle between "the old guard" and "the youth". So what is the big deal? Whom does the Tourism minister think he is impressing by singing a tune as old as Shimba Hills? Why can't he tell us anything fresh?
Arise, Oh compatriots, Nigeria's call obey..." You ever heard a school of pupils sing that? What does it mean? I mean, what does it carry across to you as its beyond-the-surface meaning?
Foroyaa had been informed that Judges of the High Court, namely, Justice Nguie Mboob Janneh, and Justice Amina Saho Ceesay as well as the Judicial Secretary Mr Haruna Jaiteh were being subjected to some form of enquiry before a Commission established at the level of the judiciary. It was rather strange for us to hear that judges of the High Court who are suspected of misconduct would be subjected ...
AFTER going around the Karas Region for about a month, I am still battling to understand the logic of job allocations by big companies in the south. Practically all jobs - in the fishing, mining, the grape projects along the Orange River and elsewhere - are occupied by people from other areas. There are virtually no southern indigenes in these industries.
Mounting scepticism and deadlocked negotiations have culminated in an announcement that the Copenhagen climate conference that opens tomorrow will not result in a comprehensive global climate deal. Disappointing? Certainly. But the summit was always meant to be a transitional step. The most important thing to consider is where we will go from here.
In a normal country, if someone in power told the voters that he wanted the next set of MPs to be dimwits, they would not be amused. Uganda is different. Since President Museveni said that he would be happy if legislators slept during Parliamentary debates, as long as they woke up to vote for the NRM position, the remark has mostly passed off as a joke, something used to make fun of Uganda's NRM ...
This hilly, Swiss-like picturesque sprawling community, surrounded on all sides by marshy swamps, cannot escape the eye when driving along the Tubman Boulevard shooting out of derelict Monrovia. Its shiny zinc-roofed huts dotting the evergreen landscape just behind the New Defense Ministry, conceals the squalor beneath-no toilettes nor water system. The smelly marshes around are now a huge ...
OF late, there has been much talk or discussions revolving around reports that quoted President Jakaya Kikwete saying that he would like his next administration after the 2010 general elections, if re-elected, to comprise youths.
The launch and signing of the new partnership between The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAIDS) and the Millennium Villages Project to keep babies from Africa and Uganda free of HIV provides a ray of hope despite Uganda's increase in HIV incidence.
THE opening of the one-stop border post this weekend at Chirundu can only be the start of a process that leads to open trade in Southern and East Africa.
It's not entirely true that in this day and age, expectant mothers in a part of our country despise the idea of delivering in hospitals, preferring to do so at home, as a sign of heroism.
FOLLOWING the sudden demise of their colleague, Henry Balikoowa, (Budiope county), Members of Parliament demanded for the reinstitution of the ban on the movement of heavy trucks at night.
ONE of the most interesting aspects of the Namibian election drama now rounding up its last act, is surely not the predictable anti-climax of the outcome, but what is most striking to the careful observer is surely the underwhelming turnout of the masses.
The nation's political atmosphere is heating up unnecessarily over the issue of President Yar'Adua's ill-health. This is putting the entire question into a negative perspective altogether.
There is arguably none in the corridors of power today that may have endured as long as the President of the Senate, Senator (Brig. Gen.) David Mark.
The procedure of 'voice voting' by MPs in the Ugandan Parliament to pass bills is not only an insult to the intelligence of the humble constituents who elected them but also an abuse of the key democratic tool.
Recently, a local daily carried a story saying National Medical Stores (NMS) had discovered 100 ghost health centres. NMS should be commended for the discovery given that they were in the past known for stocking expired drugs. I hope the new NMS management will create a new chapter and ensure that they deliver drugs to only existing health units.
In about two weeks, Ugandan delegation will join the rest of the world at UN Conference of Parties 15th session in Copenhagen - Denmark in an effort to establish climate change global policy.
IF you're caught between a rock and a hard place, where do you go? Well, of course, it can't be a rock unless you're a ghost. I see little "teacher me" hands waving impatiently in the air. The answer would obviously be a hard place, right?
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