CARTOON: Nuhu Ribadu Wanted Dead

SOURCE: GUARDIAN NEWSPAPERS

Bizarre Happenings Around The Globe

You’re not gonna believe this. The Japanese workers have been told to leave work early to avoid demographic disaster on the basis many couples are simply too tired to have sex after long hours cracking their laptops. In a conducted survey, many couples said they haven’t had sex in a couple of months because they did not have the energy.

With the Japanese birth rate dropping dramatically and the fear of population instability, Japan's labor ministry now plans to exempt employees with children under the age of three from working long hours, so they could have enough energy for procreation. Ain't that something?

Japan has the lowest birth rate and if it continues, its population would drop by almost 30 percent by 2050, and that would be a serious demographic problem. Whatever happened to Viagra and those dangerously fantasized pills? I did not make this up. Seriously!

Well, if the labor bill passes with paid time off to guarantee a greater sexual drive, the Japanese population may explode to nearly 200 million by 2050.

Now hear this. In another related survey conducted by the Singen Institute of Condom Consultancy, a German consultancy group that provides counseling on condoms, the study showed the French need the largest condoms which suggest they have penis measuring about 6.09 inches or more while the Greek had a moderate size.

The survey was conducted by asking 10,500 men from 25 different countries to measure their penis and enter the number into a database. I wonder if Nigerians, Liberians, Zairians, Ghanaians, South Africans and Cameroonians were in this survey because of their increasingly desire for sex. Amazing!

The Mexican drug lords are scarring every part of that Latino enclave to death. The hospital scene in “The Godfather” has, for sure, been replicated in a typical Michael Corleone saving his hospitalized father from a deadly hit squad. But the difference here is that in Mexico doctors are caught in the middle of fierce drug war where an estimated 5,000 people have died so far this year.

In Nigeria, politics of intimidation has become the order of the day with the continuous harassment of the nation’s former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Czar Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, who for the past couple of weeks has been on the eye of the microscope concocted by the fat cats of allegedly the James Ibori gang and Orji Kalu's demonic gangsters who have been in a position to buy politicians by reason of their loots from the treasury and their illegal campaign contributions.

As the bizarre intimidation of Ribadu continues making a mockery of our democratic dispensation, I see the press for not rising to the occasion. The press is not doing much which makes Nigeria journalism dangerously weak.

Ghana's Kate Menson is Africa's New Face

Photo courtesy of African Futurist

A highly criticized "Face of Africa" contest came to an end Saturday, November 29 when Ghana's 23-year-old Kate Aba Techie Menson beat the other nine finalist in Sun City's Super Bowl, South Africa. The nine finalist were Alli Balogun (Nigeria), Hamamat Montia (Ghana), Hiwot (Ethiopia), Joana (Angola), Lucy torr(Uganda), Maria Hiwilepo (Namibia), Noxi (Zambia) and Sasa (South Africa).

Menson who was discovered in Accra earlier this year takes home $50,000 plus a modelling contract from Oluchi Onweagba-Orlandis' O Model Africa.

Kamala Harris for 2010 Primaries

Kamala Harris last month announced her intention for the post of California Attorney General for the 2010 primaries upon Barack Obama's election victory, there are now talks Obama might invite her for a post at Washington before her anticipations for California's top cop. She has already filed her papers for the June 2010 primary election. Harris is also the first Black woman district attorney in California.

In Harris tenure, more than 1200 domestic violence offenders have been convicted in San Francisco. She is just another woman of substance and her dedication to servive is paying off.

News Desk (Early Edition) Wednesday, December 3, 2008

The travails of Nuhu Ribadu

SINCE his appointment as Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the country’s anti-graft body in 2003, Malam Nuhu Ribadu was able to cut a niche for himself as a fearsome anti-corruption czar who used everything at his disposal to do the job he was assigned by the Obasanjo administration. READ MORE>>>

Bakassi: Nigeria embarks on aggressive boundary demarcation exercise

To avoid future agonies and traumatic experience of the ceding of the oil rich Bakassi peninsula to Cameroun Republic, the Federal Government has embarked on aggressive boundary demarcation exercise in order to ensure that her boundaries between other African countries are properly demarcated. READ MORE>>>

Homeless W/Cup: Nigeria Shock Italy

A Nigerian selected by Search and Groom- Youth for Development Centre from the just concluded Street Soccer League Cup team comprising players from the slums in Lagos, Ajegunle, Abesan/Ipaja, Agege, Ikorodu, Ikeja and Ibadan are doing the country proud in Melbourne, Australia at the moment. READ MORE>>>

Nigeria should generate 10,000MW from nuclear sources’

Nigeria’s quest to generate electricity from nuclear sources should be ambitious, with the target being to generate 10,000 mega watts, the Director-General, Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority, Prof. Shamsideen Elegba, said on Tuesday. READ MORE>>>

CARTOON: The Party is Over

SOURCE: DAILY SUN

Noella Coursaris, Super Model and Superb Humanitarian

Who is more courageous than Congolese-born Noella Coursaris of Congolese mother and Cyprus father whose father passed when Noella was just five years old? Without a doubt, she was a girl with destiny.

She is doing stuff and the world is grateful for what she has put together to help children in her native land the opportunity for a better education. Starting the Georges Malaika Foundation (GMF), in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a cause worthy for humankind, many disadvantaged Congolese girls have been able to attend school on the goodwill of GMF and the project is quite becoming.

Women of Coursaris magnitude are really a source of inspiration and she should be adored. With her and many others of that nature, Africa certainly will be a better place in a matter of time. According to the African Path website, Olivier Smekens ran the ING New York City Marathon on behalf of Round Table New York in support of the GMF.

CARTOON: Heavy Duty Passenger

SOURCE: DAILY SUN

Couch Potato Sunday

While I was switching in-between channels, that is, after all the professional football games and highlights, especially on the casts of Fox Sports Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Jimmy Johnson and Michael Strahan, the American Music Awards at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles came with a whole lot of fanfare. It was another electric show with glamorous women and all that noise about the Jonas Brothers.

Well, these young kids with all that fame reminds me of the heydays of The Beatles when Britain rocked the United States when Paul McCartney and his fellas stormed Yankee. Nevertheless, Chris Brown stole the show with three trophies and that unique performance that is bound to change the flavor and vibes of Hip-Hop. Adios, Hip-Hop, time is up!

Yesterday was just a whole lotta fun for me. Major League Soccer exploded with its final in a match-up that was a little bit one-sided until the better team starts scoring. Switching in-between channels, by the time I popped up ABC channel it was all over and Columbus Crew has drenched the New York Red Bulls 3-1 to lift the MLS Cup at The Home Depot Center in Carson, California, which is home to the Los Angeles Galaxy.

With all that couch potato stuff as in "The Best Damn Show, Period!" and the media frenzied armchair quaterbacks who scramble in their living rooms as if football is better watched eating hot dog and drinking Miller Genuine Draft, I became a living witness of how it feels to be an arm-chair quarterback. You will be glued until it's all over.

I wasn't carried away with all that even though I love football a whole lot. Of course, I love football because it's physical and a man's game in its totality. But anyway, I think the Giants will be repeating again judging by the way Eli Manning has been handling the ball. I don't see anything that can take it away from the Giants, for now.

So football and all that gone, though NBC's NFL action was pretty much around, I'm now changing channels between ABC and Fox. On Fox, I was bent on the much talked about Emmy Award and Golden Globe winning episode, "24: Redemption" starring Keifer Sutherland as Jack Bauer and my home boy Hakeem Kae Kazim who played a very awesome role as Colonel Ike Dubaku who tells the boys "your parents have made you weak, we will make you strong" in that fictional African nation of Sengala where child soldiers are trained definitely gave the Fox channel a boost and raised its ratings.

And speaking with Hakeem over the phone, he said the job was well done and he's happy the way it came out. Hakeem has agreed to sit on my hot seat and I'm sure it's going to be quite fascinating.

Seun Kuti Storms Abuja's Velodrome in MTV Africa Music Awards

Yes, like father, like son; and he is following the footsteps of his father, the legendary Chief Priest and Baba of Afro Beat, Fela. I watched this young kid perform last Summer here in Los Angeles and he was just a carbon copy of his dad, in gestures and performances. Seun started playing the sax and piano at the age of eight and by the time he was 15 he was already a master of the wind instruments.

Well, while there is still chaos in the Niger-Delta region of that troubled country called Nigeria, at the same time, the first ever MTV Africa Music Awards in Abuja, Nigeria, at the Velodrome, had already watered down and folks out there in that corrupt capital city, yes, corrupt (Nuhu Ribadu is locked up for no reason, remember?), were stomping and made some noise as Compton-bred The Game, Kelly Rowland, Flo-Rida and many other poerformers were in the house that was jamming with the wizard dribbler Austen "JJ" Okocha as presenter of some of the awards, political tussle in a do-nothing Umaru Yar'Adua's administration continued apace.

Seun who opened the show performed "Army Arrangement" and accepted the inaugural Mama Legend Award in honor of his late father, the Chief Priest.

According to media reports, the occasion was electric and Nigerian performers took home most of the awards on that Saturday, November 22, 2008, when it was all magic and not darkness. The vibes seems to be grooving with a newer generation and let's bring it down.

CARTOON: A Hustler and Bad Economy

SOURCE: GUARDIAN NEWSPAPERS