I HAVE been at Unam for three years now and I have been very close to student affairs. I have attended all the GSAs and go to student Parliament as an observer.
The Montserrado County Senatorial By-Election, which many political commentators contended was a diagnostic referendum on the failure of your administration, has ended. There is no telling what happened except to say that the well-prepared, well-funded, and well-articulated legislative platform of the Unity Party candidate lost miserably to a less articulate campaign of the opposition Congress for ...
In 1956 Lisbon, Portugal a meeting took place between seven delegates. The result was the formation of the Confederation of African Football abbreviated as CAF. As the name suggests this soccer body comprises all African National soccer teams. This was the equivalent to the European Championship in Europe, which is held every four years.
December 1 saw the people of Arusha celebrate World Aids Day by marching through the town centre. Music by the Pallotti Brass Band kept individuals walking from the Municipal Council to Sokoine Road through to the Shekh Amri Abeid Stadium. Most individuals were clad in the colour red, the international colour of World Aids Day. Children from the School of St. Jude's held a banner that epitomized ...
Tanzanian based entertainment firm, the Clouds is organizing a fiesta festival that will concurrently take place in the East African Community (EAC) member states.
The budget has come, and unlike other things it does not come and go.
ON September 28, the world awoke to fresh reports of unspeakable violence against women. In Guinea, the "berets rouges," the Presidential guard, raped women of all ages -- in groups, with weapons, and with such brutality that many who weren't immediately killed died soon afterwards of their injuries.
SYSTEMS of Governance are sets of political institutions by which governments are organized in order to exert power over body politics. Systems of governance must ensure separation of powers and checks and balances among the three branches of governance, the executive, legislative and judicial.
Legend has it, the famous line from the musical Evita was uttered by the equally infamous Che Guevara. Whether that is true or whether it is just a glib remark put in Guevara's mouth by Andrew Lloyd Webber, I do not know. But what is certain, is that it applies to any third world country where governance rests on pretence and rhetoric.
I always feel sorry for my two-year-old son when he says goodbye to my wife and I every morning as we leave for work. Sometimes he cries, sometimes he smiles at us. In his little brain, I am sure he does not know why we leave him behind five days of the week. This is one of the things that makes me look forward to the festive holidays-I want to spend a lot of time with my son at least for the ...
The common catch phrase has it that disability does not mean inability. This wise word is widely accepted and respected across the world; The Gambia not an exception. The plight of people with disability throughout the globe are to a great extent the same in terms of discrimination at homes, work places and access to other basic social amenities.
This masterpiece of modern, rational and scientific thought forced humanity to reconsider and re-evaluate it's position in the grand scheme of things. At it's heart, Darwin's theory of Natural Selection is remarkably simple. Those members of a species who are better adapted to their environment are the ones most likely to live long enough to pass on their better adapted genes to their offspring. ...
BE glad you are not a donor, because you would have to suffer through countless proposals demonstrating NGOs' commitment to intergrated community-based interventions.
After the signing of the common market protocol by the EAC heads of partner states, we should cease lamenting but direct more energy onto how opportunities can be tapped.
On November 29, Budiope MP Henry Balikowa died in Mabira forest on Kampala Jinja-highway a place now highly known as a"death trap".
Accidents are finishing us, and we need action from the President because it is a national concern.
Today 56 newspapers in 44 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.
In the years of yore, gambling and indeed gamblers were viewed with disdain. While the gambler gets all the kick from staking everything in the hope that a slip at the other end would compensate for all the loses, the non-gambler and the larger society see only the criminal content and to a large extent avoid contact with the gambler perceived as uninspiring.
Let's end the year with hope that art will with renewed vigour start the new year as a priority in better helping to heal the nation in all communities and societies at large.
As World AIDS Day, December 1, 2009 is commemorated, there is a need to reflect on the Namibian HIV/AIDS situation with the intention of renewing commitment to the fight against this pandemic in the country.
Congratulations Namibia! Kudos to the ECN! Notwithstanding, the arduous, meticulous and painstaking counting and verification process, mainly due to the tedious tender ballots as part of the logistical aspect of the electoral process, Namibians have done it again and proved those skeptics, alarmists and prophets of doom wrong.
What are the causes of corruption? Why do people choose to be corrupt rather than honest? In Namibia, corruption has been a topic of discussion and in most cases in churches pastors are preaching and praying that corruption has to be eradicated, in classrooms, university lectures and parliaments, but has there been a discussion on what really causes corruption in our beautiful land of the brave?
The AU meeting of the Committee of African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change (CAHOSCC) was held on November 16 at Addis Ababa.
Computer colleges that churn out half baked students under the pretext of offering training are headed to the recycle bin.
Many pundits - some of them learned friends - have been insisting that the State President in the draft constitution is maridadi or ceremonial.
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