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We used this column in this week's Wednesday edition, to call for the dismissal of three key players of the national soccer team, the Black Stars. The players - Micheal Essien, Asamoah Gyan and Sulley Muntari - showed gross disrespect to the nation, the Football Association, and manager of the team, Milovan Rajevac, by refusing to join the rest of the squad to honour an international friendly ...
THE intrigues and simmering tensions that played out last weekend over the nominations to the presidium exposed yet again the political shenanigans within the various factions in ZANU-PF that are repositioning themselves to influence the party's succession.
WORLD opinion remains sharply divided over the United States of America's role in global politics given its partiality, hypocrisy and double-standards in its dealings with other nations.
WITHIN days of introducing toll fees on the country's major highways in August this year, more than US$500 000 had been raised from motorists, specifically to rehabilitate Zimbabwe's deplorable roads.
In what appears to be the first ever move between two of the world's biggest movie industries, award-winning Indian-origin film and television producer, Parminder Vir is set to bring Bollywood and Nollywood practitioners together at this year's edition of the ION international film festival billed to kick off from December 9 through 13, at the garden city of Port-Harcourt, Rivers State capital.
It was a good thing that our Eagles have picked the ticket to South Africa even though the way and manner we got the ticket was questionable.
He lost his father just a few months after he was born but Trybson has shown that childhood setbacks are not enough to hold one back from destiny.
Two weeks ago in this column Dealing with Fake and Expired Product, the alarming rate at which consumers consume fake and expired products and how it is difficult identifying them at a given time was discussed. It was also discovered that the more we consume these fake products, the more we suffer from mysterious illnesses and sometimes we blame it on witchcraft.
As the CBN approves the harmonisation of the two association in the microfinance sector, the Association of All Microfinance and National Association of Microfinance Banks of Nigeria, the CBN and the umbrella body regulating the activities of microfinance banks in Nigeria is hereby advised to launch deep in bringing sanity in the sector.
And who among you readers does not know that coaches are the first people to be whipped, abused and fired every time a club performs badly?
Travellers on the Gaborone-Kanye road must have noticed something special just before they reach the village of Kumakwane.
Despite considerable hours of flying, this writer will never get used to the idea of being thousands of feet up in the air, in places where in the past only angels dared to tread.
Some months ago, a friend who resides in Cape Town called me a lesbian. She did not give me that honourable title because I do the things which lesbians do - which I do not know - but because I sleep late and wake up early and I do not buy pirated DVDs.
EVENTS surrounding the debate on the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Amendment Bill which was passed in the House of Assembly on Wednesday dramatically highlighted an important but often forgotten point: that a strong parliament is essential for democracy.
IN Zimbabwe almost every aspect of our lives has a political dimension. Hardly surprising since it is the politicians and politics that have brought so much misery and stress into the lives of so many of us.
DURING the night of March 10 1985 US President Ronald Reagan was deep in slumber when he received a phone call: Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko had died. He was the third Soviet leader to die in two years. Yuri Andropov had died on February 9 1984 after only 15 months in office. Prior to that Leonid Brezhnev had died in November 1982. Brezhnev had ruled from 1964. Stalin had ruled for 26 years ...
Over the last twenty years, President Yoweri Museveni has baffled observers with his relations with the Ugandan media. He has simultaneously been the strongest promoter of press freedom and its biggest threat. He has jailed and prosecuted as many journalists as he has dined with.
The Mo Ibrahim Award for excellence in African leadership has in its short lifetime become one of the world's most talked about honours.
In its editorial, the New Vision of September 22 agreed with President Museveni's analysis that corruption and youth unemployment were the root causes of the riots.
On October 16, 2009, Oxford's Prof. Paul Collier gave a talk at Serena Hotel in Kampala on the prospects of an oil windfall in Uganda. Unlike in most of his work, this time Collier did not focus on how the international community (read the West) can help Uganda use its oil revenues well; his entire speech, though sounding like a primary school headmaster advising his pupils, was about what we ...
Will the Marriage and Divorce Bill finally give women hope?
Wainaina denies leading African lit renaissance but offers tips on how it can succeed - via mobile phone
Wakiso LC-V Chairman Ian Kyeyune was humiliated by his electorate recently for what they said were repeated lies and inability to deliver on promises made to tarmac Busabala road in Wakiso district. He was made to walk 12km after they showered him with dust and made him sit on the ground as they vented their anger and frustration.
The question of re-branding keeps re-occurring. To re-brand a country with hydra headed socio-economic, political paralysis, with comatose economy, inaccessible road network, epileptic power supply, corruption, crime, poverty, structural unemployment, dearth of social amenities and electoral flaws is a challenge as some citizens takes a wave of anti-social activities as means of livelihood.
Ordinarily one would have now allowed this matter to rest but for the recent activities of a directionless and visionless party called Action Congress (AC) in Edo State and its band of "wasters", who keep insulting our sensibilities by continuously advertising their collective ineptitude in our national dailies.
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