Nigeria is a nation that grapples with perennial power outages. Grandiose Parlor blog highlights why executive irresponsibility crippled the eight-year multi-billion dollar intervention of the past administration. Excerpts: Good governance demands an impeccably transparent public sector; it simply calls for administrators that are responsible, responsive and respectful of the rule... [view entry]

Etisalat, a United Arab Emirate based-telecoms company is the 5th GSM operator to tap into the burgeoning Nigerian mobile phone market. Etisalat will provide the technical backbone to Emerging Markets Telecommunications Services (EMTS), a Nigeria company and the owner of the license. Hakeem Belo-Osagie, chairman of EMTS, stated “Etisalat’s success... [view entry]

DMX wallows in the pitiful mud of ignorance! He “can’t believe anybody would have a name as ridiculous as Barack”. And “Ask This Black Woman” blog fires back: Just when I was riding the wave of post-racial bliss and feeling lots of love toward my fellow humans, an ignorant comment... [view entry]

Earlier this week, Obama Barack faced one of the most difficult challenges of his political career: How to deal with the unfortunate and incendiary remark of his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who blamed U.S. foreign policy for the 9/11 terrorist attacks and “ranting about “rich white people” controlling the nation’s... [view entry]

We all have heard on the radio, watched on cable news, read on blogs and entertained heated discussions among our friends on how the so-called “Super delegates” will be the decisive factor in choosing between Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama as their presidential nominee during the Democratic National Convention scheduled... [view entry]

DMX wallows in the pitiful mud of ignorance! He “can’t believe anybody would have a name as ridiculous as Barack”. And “Ask This Black Woman” blog fires back: Just when I was riding the wave of post-racial bliss and feeling lots of love toward my fellow humans, an ignorant comment... [view entry]

Nigeria is a nation that grapples with perennial power outages. Grandiose Parlor blog highlights why executive irresponsibility crippled the eight-year multi-billion dollar intervention of the past administration. Excerpts: Good governance demands an impeccably transparent public sector; it simply calls for administrators that are responsible, responsive and respectful of the rule... [view entry]

There’s Somali and Somaliland. Although the two share similar names they are different. Somaliland is situated on the eastern horn of Africa, where it shares borders with Republic of Djibouti to the west, Federal Republic of Ethiopia to the south and Somalia to the east. Somaliland is not much talked... [view entry]

Guinea Bissau: “The value of cocaine passing through the nation dwarfs the legitimate economy…” Guniea Bussau (GB) can be rightly described as a narco-state. A former Portuguese colony, Republic of Guinea Bissau, is one of the smallest nations on the African continent. The cumulative effect of its tumultuous past -... [view entry]

Etisalat, a United Arab Emirate based-telecoms company is the 5th GSM operator to tap into the burgeoning Nigerian mobile phone market. Etisalat will provide the technical backbone to Emerging Markets Telecommunications Services (EMTS), a Nigeria company and the owner of the license. Hakeem Belo-Osagie, chairman of EMTS, stated “Etisalat’s success... [view entry]