Ghana's President, Professor John Evans Atta Mills, eleven months into his administration has still not moved into the purpose-built executive office and residential accommodation facility called Jubilee House.
Most weeks, our news scene is not very exciting. There is little controversy or scandal to liven debate and spice conversation.
THE Namibia Premier League must decide to either spend thousands of dollars on lawyers' consultation and sitting fees or reschedule the abandoned premiership match between Eleven Arrows and United Stars.
As the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen kicks off, one thing is clear: for millions of people around the world climate change is not simply a future threat, it is a current reality.
The UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark that kicked off yesterday is a significant occasion in environmental diplomacy as the international community commits itself to new strategies to combat global warming. The Summit comes at a time when severity of climate change is being felt in all corners of the world.
December 1, World Aids Day came with all the facts, figures and pictures about the current status of the HIV/Aids pandemic. Most were frightening. The scariest of them all is that ironically a person in a stable monogamous relationship like marriage stands a higher chance of being infected with the virus that causes Aids than a sex worker exposed to hundreds of partners!
As Uganda celebrated the International Day of People With Disabilities (PWD) on the December 3, it was important to take stock of the achievements of the disability movement. There have been great strides made in alleviating the plight of PWDs by the government and various bodies. A significant achievement is constitutionalising the rights of PWDs, especially enacting enabling laws like National ...
Rebels put down their weapons when Didier Drogba says so, and an aspiring president loses the election when Zinedine Zidane speaks out. It is the power of football that Ugandans have chosen to appreciate from afar; the attitude of government, our football administrators and the general public who think they are doing more important things and that football is trivial doesn't help.
AS "the centre of knowledge and wisdom", the city boasts a strong arsenal of communicological smart tools of power in the form of radio and television and newspapers with which to shield its citizenry from rapacious, nefarious foreign propaganda exported to Zimbabwe in order to destabilise and confuse the mind for political gains.
LINGUISTICS is the systematic study of language, and the result, according to Jean Aitchson in her book "Language Change: Progress or Decay?", is that it is a field of study whose expansion has been embraced by psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, anthropologists, teachers, speech therapists and many other disciplines.
BY the time you are reading this article, I will have been worlds away from home attending the United Nations convention on climate change, COP 15, which is being held in Copenhagen, Denmark this year.
Nigerians seem to have borrowed the policy of the monkey in their expectations from annual budgets of the Federal Government. "Seeing is believing" is in fact so strong in the monkey kingdom that it is the origin of the proverb "the talisman of the monkey is its eyes."
An interesting fall out of the international outrage at Uganda's anti-homosexuality Bill has been the unmasking of fundamentalist forces driving the born-again hype in Uganda. Ugandans witnessed a wave of evangelical frenzy across the country as papyrus reed churches mushroomed around the country recruiting people for Jesus and the NRM-O. By the 2000s 'born again' churches had become powerful ...
THIS column almost didn't happen. On Sunday evening a violent storm wrecked power lines and at midday yesterday my ADSL line was still on the blink. This is not the first time this has happened, but I do note that it takes Eskom much longer to restore power than it used to do. Its call centre used to be a fount of facts -- now it's nearly dry and the driblets of information are few and offer ...
First the caveat. I am not a lawyer although I have been admitted to read for the LL.M. degree as an external student of the University of London. No, I don't have an LL.B degree. The University of London aggregated the papers I passed at the inter LL.B stage and the courses I passed for the Masters Degree in International Law and diplomacy and came to the conclusion that I am fit and proper to be ...
IT's nearly Christmas, which means it's time to count our blessings. There is one blessing that we should be thankful for above all, and that is the global economic rebound. You get a strong sense that South Africans are only dimly aware of how close to the edge of a very real cliff the global motorcar has been speeding .
CUTTING carbon emissions will not cut death and suffering. More than 75 world leaders are meeting in Copenhagen over the next two weeks to attempt an agreement on climate change. They should start by admitting the political and economic failure of the Kyoto Protocol: its prohibitive costs will prevent us from addressing other, more pressing problems.
THERE is something abhorrent and disturbingly ironic about the Gauteng legislature's portfolio committee on health and social development trying to take the moral high ground in answering the tough humanitarian question of what to do with Zimbabwean refugees at the Central Methodist Church (CMC) in downtown Johannesburg.
THE announcement by the US Treasury that the 700bn Troubled Asset Relief Programme (Tarp) will cost about 200bn less than previously thought is good news. But it's also the kind of good news that is meant to be received as good news.
As Justice Ayo Isa Salami last week took over the headship of the Court of Appeal from Justice Umaru Abdullahi, Davidson Iriekpen writes on expectations of appellants from the new president of the appellate court
It has been accepted that the intractable problem of poverty in Africa is a consequence of failure of leadership in the continent, affecting almost every facet of our lives as black-skinned humans.
As world leader gather this week in Copenhagen to seek a new deal to address the danger of climate change, several critical issues are at stake. One is the ability of developed countries, led by the United States to commit themselves to deeper cuts in their emissions of harmful greenhouse gases.
The truth is that people running away from Buhari mostly do so because of his zero tolerance for corruption, injustice and dishonesty. But they try to hide their stand by claiming that he is too rigid.
Like mercenaries, majority of the so-called party agents believe more in the reward than the cause. Can anybody, including my boss, Bashir Yusuf Ibrahim, deny the deadly influence of money in our national politics and why men like Buhari are finding it hard to achieve their ambitions merely because of the assumption that their integrity would automatically give them victory? Other honest retired ...
The Ledum Mitee report contains substantially what it takes to uplift the Niger Delta region and the Federal Government has since set aside the sum of N114 billion towards the execution of projects. This commitment is extra to the amount budgeted by the state and local governments, contributions from the European Union and the oil companies to the development of the area. The projects proposed for ...
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