Prince Philips knighthood is a dishonour to our real Australian heroes
People such as Prof Janice Reid, a former vice-chancellor of the University of Western Sydney, who saw the university grow into one of Australias largest tertiary institutions, giving kids in Western Sydney a chance to get a first-class education.
Kingston Council failed to help woman who was later murdered
An independent report has found unacceptable levels of complacency at a council which failed to help a woman who was later beaten to death. Charito Cruz, 37, was bludgeoned with a hammer by her partner Muhammed Niazi, in front of her two-year-old .
President Jonathan Commiserates With Singaporeans Over.
���The President and people of Nigeria, for whom the globally acclaimed achievements of Singapore under the leadership of Lee Kuan Yew have been a great source of inspiration over the years, join his compatriots and many��.
Lessons From Lee Kuan Yew
WITH elections over and new leaders about to take office in Nigeria, the exemplary leadership of Lee Kuan Yew is a good template for the in-coming class. That Singapores founding father Lee Kuan Yew who passed on the other day was an architect and .
Emulating Lee Kuan Yew - Diaspora Scope
Lee kuan. It is no longer news that Lee Kuan Yew, the innovative architect of modern Singapore died on March 23rd at age 91. During his 31 years as prime minister, he astounded global leaders by his problem-solving. On December 9, 2013 a national newspaper reported that: ���Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday said Nigerian politicians lacked the virtues of great men and that none could be compared to the late former South African President, Dr. Nelson Mandela.
Lee Kuan Yew: Lessons from the wise man of the East.
This is why the memory of the benevolent leadership provided by Lee Kuan Yew, the founding Prime Minister of Singapore, who died on March 23, 2015, would remain evergreen in the minds of his people. He was a charismatic and transformational leader, who brought great wealth and. Nigeria has a lot of lessons in charismatic and transformational leadership to learn from his leadership. It is pertnent to state that the failure of a nation is a failure of leadership; a leadership that is��.
Migrant Workers in Russia Hit by Ruble Collapse, Xenophobia
As Shaun Walker and Alberto Nardelli reported in The Guardian this week, nine countries, all of them in the former Soviet Union, are directly affected by the rubles decline. According to the World Bank, Walker and Nardelli wrote, ���21% of Armenias.
The Lagos International Airport- The Guardian | TheCitizen.
In the early 1960s, former Prime Minister Lee Kwan Yew, the man whose government transformed Singapore into the development miracle it is today, ordered a comprehensive beautification of the road that led to the nations airport. Trees and flowers were. Lawlessness rules as cars, most of them belonging to highly influential Nigerians, are still parked on the roads leading to the arrival and departure halls, seriously obstructing the flow of traffic. Certainly the airport��.
Singapores Lessons for an Unequal America - NYTimes.com
Lee Kuan Yew, Singapores first prime minister, who was in power for three decades, and his successors took a broader perspective on what makes for a successful economy than a single-minded focus on gross domestic��.
The Guardian view on Lee Kuan Yew: a new generation should build on his.
Singapores founding father Lee Kuan Yew is being mourned within his country and beyond its shores. In three decades as prime minister he oversaw the separation from Malaysia in 1965 and the transformation of Singapore into a business and financial .
Is Lee Kuan Yews role in Singapores rise overrated.
Singaporeans will remember Lee Kuan Yew today, upon his passing, on largely positive terms, and his place in history is secure as the founding father of modern Singapore and, in many ways, modern Asia. His legacy to world politics may even be his role translating the cultural divide between China and the United States, more then any lessons from the bespoke Singapore model. But todays.. March 28: Nigeria ��� presidential and parliamentary. March 29:��.
Lee Kuan Yew: Legacy of vision, modernisation and.
Crucially, one of the most single leadership values and national governance template that Nigerians and indeed the political elites and power mongers must distill from Lee Kuan Yew is the spirit of national integration and��.
Quarantined: How Ebola Derailed Sierra Leones Postwar Recovery
. what lies ahead. Tamasin Ford is a BBC correspondent based in Abidjan, Cote dIvoire. She has spent the past five years reporting from West Africa, including Sierra Leone, Liberia, Burkina Faso and Mali, mainly for the BBC, the Guardian (U.K.) and NPR.
Under The Angsana Tree: Lee Kuan Yew passes away on.
Guardian Nigeria: Singapores founding father, Lee Kuan Yew passes on at 91. The Guardian: Lee Kuan Yew is gone. Where does. Hindustan Times: Lee Kuan Yew: The Singapore leader had lessons for Modi, India
Roast or toast? Mapping changes in violent men
Recognising that we have reached a stalemate in dealing with violent men, and an impasse in policy and research on perpetrator programmes, there is fresh interest in whether men can be engaged in a process of change. Million Women Rise March, London .
From Pol Pot to ISIS: ���Anything That Flies on Everything That Moves���
On September 25, a headline in The Guardian read: ���Faced with the horror of Isis we must act.��� The ���we must act��� is a ghost risen, a warning of the suppression of informed memory, facts, lessons learned and regrets or shame. The author of the article.
Singapore bans protests at free-speech park after Lees death
Singapore on Monday indefinitely banned protests and other gatherings at the countrys sole free-speech park, declaring it a zone for honouring the late former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew. In a surprise move hours after��.
World leaders gather for Lee Kuan Yews funeral in Singapore
World leaders, current and former, were due to attend the state funeral on Sunday of Singapores first prime minister and founding father Lee Kuan Yew, The Guardian reports. The Indonesian president Joko. Singapore enjoys one of the worlds highest per-capita incomes and its residents enjoy near-universal home ownership, low crime rates and first-class infrastructure. But progress came at the. Independence Day �� Next: Militants Kill 39 As Nigerians Go To Polls��.
VIDEO: Keep Nigeria One, Obama Urges Nigerians.
In a video message from the White House, the American leader congratulated Nigerians on what they have achieved so far, and advised that they have an opportunity in the election to write the next chapter by voting... LEE. Today, the citizens of Singapore mourn the death of their leader, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, in words and deed. I share below the email sent to my professional listserve by a professional colleague in Singapore. As you read it I want you to imagine a day��.
Lessons for Nigerians from Singapore By Bolaji Tunji | Jimi.
A few days ago, precisely March 23, the death of former Singaporean leader, Lee Kuan Yew was announced. Days after his death, newspapers in Nigeria and most of the popular international news channels were awashed��.
The Irish Savant: Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew. Was going to write a piece on the amazing Lee Kuan Yew, the man who transformed Singapore from a malarial swamp into a technologically advanced First World nation.. (sigh) If only we had more of these hard working student salt of the earth true blue Dubs rather than them feckless Nigerians that are being imported! 31 March.. It is a measure of the depth of ideological delusion of post-modern liberalism that this abject lesson is not recognized.
Questions on Genocide and Reconciliation
( February 28, 2015, Sydney, Sri Lanka Guardian) The sensibility of the resolution passed by the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) requesting ���the ongoing United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL.
Beware the gravitational pull of mediocrity
In the early years of the last century, Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset proposed a solution to societys ills that still strikes me as ingenious, in a deranged way. He argued that all public sector workers from the top down (though, come to.
Re: Buhari V Jonathan: Beyond The Election By Dr. Kayode Fayemi
We agree with Professor Soludo that if the political parties, including ours, must justify the overwhelming enthusiasm of Nigerians about the 2015 elections we must remain focused on the issues that matter most to them, which is the progress of our.
Why Trouble Cannot Wish Buhari Goodluck | The Guardian.
Paul Kagame asked one of his advisers to enumerate the lessons (Fasholas Takeaways) that Rwanda could learn from LKY and his transformation of Singapore from a third world tropical no where to a first world where to be.. or doesnt go, that Olusegun Obasanjo heard about LKY and his transformation of Singapore at the end of his second term and wondered if he could have three times three terms, he could transform Nigeria from a third world to a first world.
Why Trouble Cannot Wish Buhari Goodluck
Paul Kagame asked one of his advisers to enumerate the lessons (Fasholas Takeaways) that Rwanda could learn from LKY and his transformation of Singapore from a third world tropical no where to a first world where to be.. we keep this as one of the.
Thinking of the CANDIDATE through the eyes of #Nigerian.
The previous post looked at the Campaign Team based on the lessons from Axelords Believer. Today we will jot down some points on THE. Lee Kuan Yew. In Nigeria, the Guardian UK reports ���countless millions of dollars have been lavished on the election campaigns, with commercials dominating television and newspapers for the three months���cities have been coated in placards and posters on a breathtaking scale���. On the same, Wole Soyinka observed that��.
icheoku: LEE KUAN YEW, A LEADER DIES AND A.
It takes a long time to make a nation out of a multi cultural and multi ethnic society - Lee Kuan Yew; and he went fort to put his money where his mouth is - clobbered a motley, disparate peoples, into citizens of a thriving first. Awolowo and Odimegwu Ojukwu, who both provided that type of leadership to their Yoruba and Igbo people of Biafra and may be Ahmadu Bello for his Northern people, no Nigerian leader ever had what it takes to join this class of leaders.
The Day the State Security Agency Started Investigating Opposition Politicians.
. state is pulled from the ruling partys womb by the unskilled hands of a trainee obstetrician. Over the course of the past few weeks, weve been (un)edified by so-called Spy Cables drama. Dribbled out by our info-meisters at The Guardian and Al.
Joe Biden apologizes for using anti-Semitic term
On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the most wisest man in the Orient, Biden said. He was speaking .
US Intel Vets Oppose Brennans CIA Plan
( March 11, 2015, Boston, Sri Lanka Guardian) The original idea of the CIA was to have independent-minded experts assessing both short- and longer-term threats to U.S. national security. Mixing with operations and politics was always a danger, which is.
Jcans nine-day wonder mentality ��� the source of our failure
MEDICINENET.COM defines amnesia as an impairment to or lack of memory. The type of amnesia that aptly personifies Jamaicas citizenry, with regards to our attitude when faced with betrayal of public trust by our officials is retrograde amnesia.