THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: THE POLICY FOR NIGERIA AND AFRICA By Emeka Chiakwelu www.Afripol.Org Emeka Chiakwelu is the Principal Policy Strategist at Afripol Organization. www.Afripol.Org Africa Political and Economic Strategic Center (Afripol) is foremost a public policy center whose fundamental objective is to broaden the parameters of public policy debates in Africa. To […]
IMF loan will be last option: Zardari
President Asif Zardari has said while cash-strapped Pakistan is still averse to resorting to IMF aid, the country must consider the IMF option as a cure for its ailing economy. Zardari will visit Saudi Arabia tomorrow (Tuesday) for talks with King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, custodian of the two Holy Mosques, to solicit support for […]
Global warming danger of the earth.
Global warming is the increase in the average measured temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and oceans since the mid-twentieth century, and its projected continuation. The time period for which reasonably reliable near-surface temperature records exist from actual observations from thermometers with quasi-global coverage is generally considered to start in about 1850 – […]
Rationalizing Fuel Price: So far a half done act
If you have hundred taka to give subsidy, whom do you give it to? A labourer to buy food or a private car owner worried about rising fuel price? Also, don’t treat fuel and fertiliser similarly. Why, would you ask? The way we are going to open this article may seem like dramatizing, but it […]
Social Justice Tea Parties to Do Away With the Caste System
‘A house divided against itself cannot stand’.It is a famous quote from the former US President Abraham Lincoln’s speech, when US was divided on racial grounds and US was on the verge of civil war in the year 1865.The enigma was solved by Lincoln by issuing the famous declaration of emancipation of slaves. But in India, […]
Zardari or Nawaz Can Be the Next President
Helpless victims of General Pervez Musharraf for years, Mian Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari, who were in political wilderness until just a few months ago and who have suddenly become the virtual controllers of the country’s destiny, realise that they have to get even with the establishment through a systematic, comprehensive and calculated joint […]