2015: The Big Uniport Four (jonathan, Amaechi, Wike & Princewill) And Way Out Of The Rivers Macabre DanceWednesday, May 22, 2013 PREAMBLE Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a ... |
TSATSU, THE NDC LEGAL PARAMOUNT CHIEF HAS FINISHED!Wednesday, May 22, 2013 After 13 days of boring, repetitive, controversial as well as duplicated and triplicated cross-examination of the Star Witness of the petitioners, Lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata has finally ended his unenviable longest cross-examination at the Supreme Court amidst a hint of coming back to cross-examine again ... |
Gov. Amaechi And The Gossip Of AssassinationTuesday, May 21, 2013 Does the presidents power go beyond the Constitution? Many Nigerians of goodwill have asked the same question since the rumour mill had it that the security details to Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State might be withdrawn and he would be impeached and also go the road of his ancestors; all b ... |
Humanitarian Disaster And Political IllusionTuesday, May 21, 2013 The continuing carnage and atrocities sweeping across Syria and the savagery committed against innocent men, women and children defy the most nightmarish dehumanization committed by one against another. A government that slaughters its people and maims a whole generation is not a government with who ... |
Who Is Speaking The Truth: NDC Or NPP?Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Just as the auditing of the pink sheets under contention was about to start on Monday May 20, it emerged that some invisible hands had played a fast one at the Supreme Court SC. The 24 boxes of exhibits suddenly ballooned to 31. It must however be stressed that out of the original 24 boxes sen ... |
Akufo-Addo Should Not Buy Out-Of-Sight Goods!Tuesday, May 21, 2013 The caption of this article is not intended to unduly draw attention to the consanguinary nexus, however tenuous, between this writer and the leader of the main opposition New Patriotic Party NPP, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Neither is it intended to be gratuitously alarmist, although knowing the ... |
Ghana's President Is Naked!Tuesday, May 21, 2013 One of my favorite tales growing up was Hans Christian Andersens Emperors New Clothes. The story is about a self-centered Emperor who is deceived by two weavers into believing they have made a new set of clothes for him that is invisible to those who are unfit for their positions, are stupid or ... |
Where The Rain Began To Beat UsTuesday, May 21, 2013 Recently I got into series of arguments with some Nigerians on twitter on the causes of the Nigerian predicament. It was easy to deduce from what people were saying that most people tend to blame whatever government that is incumbent in the country, for the Nigerian predicament. Myopic as we are, ... |
Rand Paul, Cato Institute, AndThe Libertarian MomentTuesday, May 21, 2013 Libertarianism, thanks, among other factors, to the emergence of leading presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul, is coming to the fore. It is presenting itself in fresh, less eccentric, and increasingly attractive ways. Moderate libertarianism may be capturing the fancy of an overtaxed, fed-up-with ... |
Asantehene Addresses The Wrong AudienceTuesday, May 21, 2013 In the nations capital with a delegation of chiefs for a lecture on democratic political culture and governance, the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei-Tutu II, was reported to have paid a courtesy call on the 2012 presidential candidate of the main opposition New Patriotic Party NPP and admonished Nana Ad ... |
Ghanaian Politicians Are Dying SlowlyTuesday, May 21, 2013 Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life. To find a balance in them is a skill in itself. Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have. Finding them in each other - activity in rest and rest in activity - is the ultimate freedom. Sri Sri Ravi Sha ... |
The Mischievous Act Of An NPP Presiding OfficerTuesday, May 21, 2013 It does not take much effort for people to get diabolical. Therefore, when people set their minds to become mischievous, they go all length to get their evil acts in scope. The country is currently on semi-hold, thanks largely to the Supreme Court SC petition by the NPP that is seeking to overtu ... |
Somalia And The Slippery Slope Of ‘Jubbaland’Tuesday, May 21, 2013 If the latest development in Somalia gives you the feeling of being trapped in the Twilight Zonesomewhere between relative security and renewed bloodshedyou are not alone. Due to the array of competing internal and external interest groups and the federal governments lack of clear grand strateg ... |