Gordon Brown succeeds Tony Blair on Wednesday to become Britain’s 52nd prime minister, charged with healing wounds over Iraq and restoring public faith in a Labour government in order to win a fourth consecutive term. After waiting 10 years for Blair to go, Brown must contend with a resurgent opposition Conservative Party as he strives […]
The Top 15 Nigerian Scams you should stay away from.
The Top 15 Nigerian Scams you should stay away from. 1.Invitation to visit the country. Sometimes, victims are invited to a country to meet real or fake government officials. Some victims who do travel are instead held for ransom. In some rumoured cases they are smuggled into the country without a visa and then threatened […]
Iraq gov’t needs political will
Accept it or not, but the fact is the present leadership in Iraq is becoming more like a lame duck government. Despite the billions of funds and the manpower that the U.S. government poured into Iraq, it seemed nothing much had transpired, but observations of intensive bombings and sectarian violence that already killed thousands and […]
But I’m the Commander Guy!
Well, President Bush has invented another name for himself. On the heels of being “The Decider”, the president christened himself The Commander Guy a few days ago, when talking about why he was vetoing a war funding bill that had provisions that would force a troop withdrawal from Iraq by October of this year. The […]
Kofi Annan -Man of Indomitable Spirit
By: Daniel Aforo Since assuming the august office of the United Nations Organization, prominent people have described him in many ways. The former US Ambassador to the UN, Richard Holbrooke one’s said “Mr. Annan is the best Secretary General in the history of the UN”.As a Nobel laureate in 2001, the […]
Warnings for Obama
"If you will join me in this improbable quest, if you feel destiny calling, and see as I see, a future of endless possibility stretching before us; if you sense, as I sense, that the time is now to shake off our slumber, and slough off our fear, and make good on the debt we […]