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The UN: where words go to die The headline in yesterday’s Financial Times (FT) spoke volumes. It declared: ‘Enfeebled’ UN fights for relevance in divided world: A cold war-style stalemate over Ukraine and Sino-American tensions have left the Security Council at a low ebb Most notably, the FT reported that: For diplomats and UN veterans, the swirl of this week’s General… Read more.
Alas, earthquakes, coups, floods, famine, tribal warfare, corruption, etc. all just seem part of the African game of dysfunction… Read more.
If you’re an American, you probably don’t know any more about FIFA, the international body that governs soccer, than you do about the IAEA, the international body that governs nuclear weapons. So imagine US law-enforcement authorities announcing the indictment of former MLB commissioner Bud Selig on criminal charges for fraud, criminal mismanagement and forgery, and… Read more.
Because, if you think African migration is bad now, you ain’t seen nothing yet. The Nasarawa State Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule has said that only corruption is stagnating Nigeria from competing with other developed countries like the United Kingdom and the United States. … ‘Nigeria by all intent and purposes is not a poor country,… Read more.
In an article entitled “TCI Commission of Inquiry: no further comment”, which was published here a week ago today, I wrote the following: Now that this process is underway, however, I feel obliged to follow my own advice to be patient and let justice take its course … with no further comment (until the Commission issues… Read more.
A woman has accused Premier Hon. Dr. Michael Misick of rape. And her accusation is spreading like wildfire. Everyone in the Turks & Caicos Islands (TCI) is shocked. But no one is surprised. Michael Misick accused of rape Rumors are that his premiership is going down in flames. Even supporters of his ruling Progressive National Party (PNP)… Read more.
Force Misick to resign like Nixon Premier Michael Misick of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) has become as hopelessly compromised a national leader as President Richard Nixon was in 1974 Of course, in the fall of 1973, Nixon had every right to feel invincible. He was still reveling in a landslide re-election victory, had rendered his political opponents… Read more.
