Post Tagged with: "Barack Obama"

Of Commentaries, Reactions and Over-Reactions

Of Commentaries, Reactions and Over-Reactions

by / on January 12, 2010, 8:43 am

In the BusinessDay of January 12, 2010 December 25, 2009: A Nigerian-born male, with secondary education in Togo and university education in London, said to have been radicalized during his university days in London, and to have been further radicalized in Yemen, attempted to detonate an ‘incendiary device’ that he had sown into his underwear before getting on a flight [...]

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Thinking about Evolution

by / on November 4, 2009, 6:39 am

There is at least one sense in which Nigeria and the US are very similar: having a remarkably high proportion of religious people – or as the present fad expression goes, people that “have a personal relationship with God” – and of course also having a high proportion of creationists, which follows, so it seems, quite easily. This was the [...]

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Obama’s face of Africa that is too often overlooked.

Obama’s face of Africa that is too often overlooked.

by / on July 26, 2009, 10:08 am

The message, In 1985, around 85,000 people visited the tropical country; that number has now skyrocketed to around 600,000. In June of this year, the Ghana Tourist Board launched a promotional initiative with the aim of attracting 1 million annual visitors by the end of 2012.

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