Egyptians began
voting freely on Wednesday for the first time to pick their president in a wide
open election that pits Islamists against men who served under deposed leader
Hosni Mubarak. The contest is a novelty for a nation where elections during the
30-year rule of a man some called "Pharaoh" were thinly attended
rigmaroles in which the result was a foregone conclusion.
Have you ever done
something then afterwards you sit down and wonder ‘why did I react like that,
was it necessary?’ If you find yourself in this position most of the time, then
this article is about you.
The
number of people who would refuse all asylum seekers to Hungary has increased by about 10%
in the past five years according to a March poll, Tárki reported on Wednesday.
SWINDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Chelsea’s Champions League
hero Didier Drogba was given a rapturous welcome as he carried the
Olympic flame on Wednesday, the day after announcing he was leaving the
club.
The essential question
of the role of a man in modern Kenyan society continues to generate more questions
than is readily answerable. Surely but gradually, the archetypal masculinity of
man is being windswept into the ocean of gender equality.
Whitney Cerak lives a pretty normal life nowadays. Which seems just fine with her. Six years after being mistaken for dead, Cerak is now a wife and mother. In fact, she married her soldier boyfriend, Matt Wheeler, in the same church where her family had held her funeral.
S'Africa Nigeria tidy
trade ties, free entry for nationals By Oghogho Obayuwana
Nigerian FAM, Aishiru
THE Federal Government is
leading the campaign for free entry into South
Africa and Nigeria for diplomats and holders
of the two countries' official passports. The proposal was presented
to South Africa yesterday at
the on-going Eighth Nigeria-South Africa Bi-National Commission (BNC) confab in
Cape Town.
Africa Day 2012: a moment for reflection & celebration
By
Samwin Banienuba
Late Dr. Nkrumah
25th May is
Africa Day. For many years it has been a celebration of African unity. It dates
back to 1963 when the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was founded in Ethiopia on the
25th of May. Before then 15th April, which marked the first Conference of
Independent African States held in Ghana in 1958, was upheld as
African Freedom Day.
The
is one ill which has bedevilled the educational system and if honestly
confronted head-on and eliminated will change the perception which the comity
of nations do have about Nigeria certificates and thus make our certificates
acceptable and by extension Nigeria good place where honesty and transparency
is venerated.
Sir, the attack on the convoy of the Chairman of Independent
National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega while emerging from the
palace of Emir of Kazaure, Alhaji Najib Hussaini Adamu in Jigawa State is
unwarranted. One now questions when it has become a crime to attend or honour
wedding invitation of an Emir whose daughter is being wedded.
Zimbabwean
President Robert Mugabe reportedly told a former minister in his government
that he wants to retire but fears his party would disintegrate, an independent
weekly said on Sunday.
I contacted
Emeka Obasi, the Chief Media personnel to Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, the unconquerable
former governor of Abia State, immediately I saw the report on a blog.
Individuals of Charisma are often sincerely called to mind,
eulogized, remembered and or immortalized while still alive for their colossal
humanitarian disposition not only to the poor, the less privileged, the
unemployed but also to persons who genuinely needed to be helped given the
availability of resources at the givers disposal and prompting of the donor’s
spirit.