The Fourth Republic of Ghana is historical for many reasons. It has more women in higher public office than it has ever had, in its 51 years as an independent nation. This post highlights some of the women at the height of power. The Speaker of Parliament Joyce Adeline Bamford-Addo (born 26 March 1937) is [...]

The Ghana 2008 Presidential/Parliamentary elections has been over since about 12 hours ago and I find it interesting that many of the leading Western media outlets have not made a mention of Ghana 2008 Elections. Perhaps, Ghana does not exist on their radar screen. Ghana, like the rest of black Africa will only pop-up on [...]

I couldn’t stop the tears of joy streaming down my black face as I watched Senator Barack Obama give his thanksgiving speech this dawn, live on CNN. This historic, smashing victory over the status quo only goes to emphasize a philosophy I always believed in: “Nothing is impossible”. Now I can add this famous one [...]

The furore that followed the arrest and illegal detention of Jonathan Elendu of ElenduReports.com has yet to die down when the news broke that yet another blogger had been arrested by the State Security Service (SSS). According to Committe to Protect Journalists: NIGERIA: Second U.S.-based Nigerian blogger held Emmanuel Emeka Asiwe, editor of the Arlington, [...]

I had the opportunity to watch a Nollywood (Nigerian movie industry) action thriller movie directed by Fred Amata on Africa Magic yesterday, titled: Anini. The movie was released in 2005 and features Nollywood stars like Bimbo Akintola, Fred Amata, Jeta Amata, Segun Arinze, Chidi Mokeme, Ashley Nwosu among many others with Jonathan Gbemuotor as Director [...]

I regularly glance through the leading Nigerian Internet-based discussion forum Nairaland, to keep an eye on the current trends in Nigeria. Knowing the typical lack of a sense of priority of some Nigerian leaders, I wasn’t very surprised to see the topic: “Lagos Assembly Launches Website For Obama” on the Webmasters section of Nairaland last [...]

One would have thought the accusations against former President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo would have been limited to corruption allegations. But a sex scandal? Geez. What is this world turning to? This is the height of moral decadence if indeed it is true. Gbenga Obasanjo (Olusegun Obasanjo’s first son) is accusing his wife of having [...]

[Some criminals have deemed it fit to reference the blog post below in their 419 scam emails. I wish to disassociate myself from such mails. I do not have anything to do with scammers. Do not reply their mails!] As of today, I am not sympathetic to any political party in Nigeria neither am I [...]

Just after the recent AU Summit in Accra, I saw some video clip’s on B.K. Oduro‘s Not Exactly The Nuuz.* They were very hilarious. Scene 1: Thomas Yayi Boni, President of Benin Republic, yawning tiredly. Scene 2: Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. President of Equatorial Guinea dozing. Scene 3: Levy Mwanawasa, President of Zambia. Quietly asleep. [...]

I saw a leading news headline on Yahoo News this morning. (Yahoo! is fund of deleting news items after sometime so I am unable to link to them.) I was quite impressed: President Umaru Yar’Adua revealed personal wealth of $5 million on Thursday, saying public financial disclosures should be standard practice as Nigeria battles official [...]

Politicians (especially in Africa) are always so eager to prove to their constituents that they are competent to lead, that they sometimes goof, indict, or even implicate themselves. A classic example of this, is Governor Umaru Yar’Adua of Katsina State of Nigeria, who is also the ruling party (PDP)’s presidential candidate for the April 2007 [...]

Africa, once a great continent, has sadly been dropped to the bottom of the ladder, in every sense of the word, globally. Every thing negative is in abundance here. Name it: Corruption, Mediocrity, Civil wars, Famine, Bad leadership, poorly managed economies, Poor infrastructure, HIV/AIDS, Low GDP, High Mortality rate etc. The political atmosphere in many [...]