Helon
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Obiwu, Director of the Writing Center at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, United States,
and winner of Phi Beta Delta Award: his first published book, Rituals of the Sun, was published by Klamidas Books.
Points of Interest
Which goal do you score first?
Goals
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Are some people happy by nature?
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Detoxifying
Nigeria's toxic assets...
One of Nigeria's foremost bankers,
Chief Dennis Odife, faults the bill for an act to establish Nigeria's Asset Management Company. It's "another
name for a bail out of the same assets which only recently we all described as ‘toxic assets'. The first question
is whether ‘toxic assets' can or should qualify for a bailout by the Government without first being ‘detoxified'?"
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Not as simple
as A-B-C
Livescience.com's Christopher Wanjek reports
that "Studies showing the negative or null effects of vitamins supplements are so common. Doctors in Australia provided
nearly 1,900 pregnant women with either supplements of vitamins C and E or a placebo to see whether the vitamins would lower
the risk of developing high blood pressure during pregnancy. It didn't work. (Read article)
Why Africa
must re-brand
Nigerian author Dr. Bukar Usman thinks Obama's
affection for truly democratic African states should prod the rest to re-examine their acts. "With or without American
employment of the triple mechanism of military might, diplomacy and developmental aid, in their quest to shape societies elsewhere...it
remains true that Africa holds its destiny in its hands." And the time, he says, has come for Africa to re-brand itself.
(Read this article)
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