Archive for May, 2011
Posted by Contributor on May 24, 2011 at 5:28 pm in Feature Articles, Other Top Stories
US Congressman Brad Sherman (Democrat, California) thinks in the wake of NATO’s expensive operations in Libya to contain Muammar Gaddafi’s attempts to kill protestors and the budget battle on Capitol Hill, the seized Gaddafi money, totaling over US$100 billion, should be used to pay for the Libyan no fly zone operations. That makes sense because [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 5:22 pm in Feature Articles, Other Top Stories
By Emmanuel Kwablah My immediate impression (you could call it cultural shock) of the Niger Delta was that of a territory under some sort of siege. The heavy military and police presence right from the point of entry, the Port Harcourt International Airport, through the 35km drive to the centre of the city, and indeed [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 5:17 pm in Feature Articles, Other Top Stories
As the 21st century unfolds, the face of Nelson Mandela is instantly recognizable around the globe. That of Kwame Nkrumah, who was once the Nelson Mandela of the 1950s and 1960s is less known to a new generation of Africans on the African continent and in the Diaspora. Therefore, it is essential that the achievements, [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 5:01 pm in Feature Articles, Other Top Stories
By Kwasi Adu After the menu of insults and verbal abuse served by ex-President Rawlings and his wife on certain people in the NDC, that they are “greedy bastards”, “ungrateful bastards”, etc; while some of the ladies are described as “money-grabbing whores”, etc, the tagging has recently graduated into people who are and who are [...]
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Posted by Contributor on May 19, 2011 at 7:21 pm in Top Story
Stephen Jennings said: “I think it is probable that in the coming decades large parts of Africa will outpace the growth enjoyed by Asia. In the 1950s and 60s it was Asia that was considered the over-populated, politically incompetent, war-riven basket case.
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Posted by Kofi Akosah Sarpong on May 18, 2011 at 3:38 pm in Feature Articles, Other Top Stories
By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong Forget the fact that Dominic Nitiwul, the main opposition National Patriotic Party Member of Parliament for Bimbila, has LLM from the University of Westminster, UK, MBA in Corperate Finance from the University of Glamorgan, UK, and BED (Science) from the University of Education, Ghana. Despite his unversity degrees and the fact that [...]
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Posted by Kofi Akosah Sarpong on at 3:36 pm in Feature Articles, Other Top Stories
By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong All progress starts from the mind. The better the mind, the better the progress. How better the mind is driven by how serious, sophisticated, and deep the thinking is. If the society thinks poorly, its development becomes poor. This is glimpsed from the society’s intellectuals, their Big Men. Why? Because the intellectuals, [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 3:31 pm in Feature Articles, Other Top Stories
Source: Pan-Africanist International The International Solidarity Committee of the Pan-Africanist International calls upon all Africans and friends of Africa, lovers of Peace, Freedom, and Justice, to boycott the investiture of the leader of the Western-backed rebels and the alleged winning party of the Ivorian civil war, Alassane Dramane Ouattara, who recently confirmed that he will [...]
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