SEVERAL weeks on, the people of the West African nation of Guinea are still reeling from the tragic incidents that were recorded on Monday September 28, in their national capital. Conakry, when gun-wielding soldiers loyal to the military junta of Moussa Dadis Kamara shot scores of innocent civilians dead.
It must take great insouciance for someone in President Jakaya Kikwete's position to sleep well at night these days, but if the man is even slightly worried, he's not showing it.
Visiting the Microsoft India Development Centre in Hyderabad last week was an eye-opener.
We can expect at least a week of calm, courteous and reasonable behaviour on the political front. Phew!
In an effort to shine a light on the darkness at the heart of the world's deadliest conflict since the Second World War, the Enough Project travelled to eastern Congo to better understand how the 3Ts (Tin, Tantalum, and Tungsten) and gold make their way from Congo's killing fields to our cell phones, laptops, MP3 players and video game systems.
When the East Africa Community celebrated its 10th anniversary by signing a protocol to introduce a Common Market in 2010, it was reaffirming that size matters in the global economy.
The discovery of oil reserves in Uganda, Kenya's determination to locate and exploit its oil reserves and the impressive mineral wealth of Tanzania, all point to a prosperous future for the region.
ONE or two persons may be tempted to consider Dr Okey Ikechukwu's "Still On Anambra's Ijele" (The Guardian, Monday, November 23, 2009) a neutral piece on the February 6, 2010 gubernatorial election in Anambra State. But the article is a veiled--but failed-- attack on the deep and popular conviction that with the emergence of Professor Chukwuma Soludo, the immediate past governor of the Central ...
The article of one Danlami Baban Takko, as guest columnist, in the Daily Trust of Friday, November 27, 2009 makes very interesting reading. He wrote his piece "Re:Saving Buhari, serving self" as counter-attack to the rejoinder of Bashir Yusuf Ibrahim, entitled "Saving Buhari, serving self", which appeared in the Daily Trust of November 22, 2009 in response to an earlier article by Shehu Mohammed ...
Certainly, Shehu Mohammed Funtua's article, "Saving Buhari" (Daily Trust, Friday Nov. 13, 2009) was one of the most controversial I have ever read. Unfortunately, most reactions to his arguments tend to be laden with sentiments and presumptuous assumptions by those who wrote to vilify Funtua rather than subjecting his points to critical objective evaluation.
Labour party goes for its convention this weekend in Abuja. Political discourse has largely (and perhaps understandably) focused on the doings and perversities of the ruling People Democratic party (PDP).
Even while former President Olusegun Obasanjo was busy playing the typical Nigerian type of politics over who will succeed him, the issue of bad health has been associated with President Umaru Yar'Adua, who at the time was the governor of Katsina State. Some then had claimed he had a terminal illness, while some said he was just simply ill. We all were on this when suddenly he emerged the Peoples ...
As I write this piece, Nigeria is still without a functioning President. The regularity of our President's disappearing acts reminds me of Ola Rotimi's play, Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again.
WOW, 20 years since we first voted in Namibia. We are all still here and not doing so badly! But it was this 20 year interval that got me thinking as it seems, on reflection, to conveniently divide life into the four stages of man. Infancy, adolescence, adultery and, well something!
SUCH a technocrat, with a track record of good performance in his or her chosen field, of course, should be supported by deputy vice-chancellors who are thoroughbred academics.
The November 22 MTN Marathon brought a bit of relief to many Ugandans whose daily menu is about robbery of state coffers by those entrusted. I think these marathons ought to be held more often for two reasons. First is that marathons are just fun and healthy too. But also, I think that frequent marathons (at least on a quarterly basis) would give people a drive to practice because they would want ...
If the Nigerian rumour mill were to be human and wealthy, resourceful Nigerian lawyers would have by now grossed billions in pay offs and commissions from litigations instituted by aggrieved individuals. But since Mr Rumour is so faceless, it gets away with practically every crime and injury known to law. Law enforcement agencies are impotent in reining in this fellow, even when it can be ...
WHO does Senate President, David Alechenu Bonaventure Mark think he is? Is he anything more than the President of the Senate?
THERE has been a tendency to play safe on the part of the Nigerian media with regard to the latest hospitalisation of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua. The Tribune Newspapers have been the boldest in covering all angles it believes relevant to the developing news.
THIS week we celebrated World AIDS day. Though celebration is hardly the right word for such an occasion, it was an opportunity to highlight the fact that AIDS is still with us and take stock of the progress which has been made in combating this epidemic. In Uganda, the picture regarding AIDS is mixed - we have taken some steps forward and also gone backwards. The overall rate of HIV is now lower ...
The strides we have made, sometimes just make me sit back and wonder at how far we have come. A long time ago, there was no Fida to run to if your man just walked out on you and refused to provide for the upkeep of your children.
JUST before the Presidential elections of June 12, 1993, Alhaji Aliyu Dasuki, a business man of international standing and a man considered in business circles as very generous, died. Added to this was the air of integrity which many could swear, Dasuki wore as an armour.
Thirteen ministers who sat on the Cabinet Subcommittee for organising the 2007 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kampala have become the central focus of the ongoing Parliamentary probe into alleged misuse of some Shs400bn spent to host the summit.
I’ve served my country around the world as a career diplomat for 33 years now. I’ve seen firsthand what successful cooperation among governments and peoples can accomplish in the pursuit of shared goals. Yet, one of the strongest examples of results-focused partnerships underway is what I am now witnessing unfold in the Kingdom of Lesotho in southern Africa to improve life-saving ...
On October 2, 2009, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), after the audit of 14 banks in collaboration with the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), took over Equitorial Trust Bank (ETB). In the same mode of "corporate abduction", members of the bank's Executive Management were eased out.
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