It is another mourning period for the Nigerian movie industry. This time is the death popular Kannywood actress, Aisha Dankano.
It was reported that she died in the early hours of Yesterday, Tuesday, February 23, 2016. Aisha breathed her last in her home in Kano State after a brief illness.
Family sources say she has been buried according to Islamic rites.
Not only has candidate Clinton demonstrated a mind-numbingly callous indifference to the impacts of fracking, she could end up leading us toward "Climageddon."
Hillary Clinton takes a lot of heat politically, much of it personal, mean-spirited and unfair. Too often the criticism has to do with her personal life, her character and other celebrity-type issues that are frankly irrelevant to her politics, including her recent role as U.S. Secretary of State.
But as primary choices loom, we have just seen the latest reports on global climate change, and they are dour, to say the least. We have crossed the tipping point where runaway, devastating changes to the natural balance are almost inevitable. And the prospect of a Clinton-In-Chief bodes very poorly for our chances of arresting that change. In fact, according the Washington Post, Clinton has actually become more conservative on Energy Policy than she already was. "Hillary Clinton's appearance at a clean energy convention in Las Vegas on Thursday night turns attention to yet another aspect of the likely Democratic presidential candidate's policy platform for 2016: energy. As usual (and perhaps to her detriment), Clinton is not expected to actually delineate any specific policy goals on energy production. But if she did, it's safe to assume we know what she would say. There's no reason to think Clinton's positions on energy have, in the main, changed since 2008. If anything, they've shifted to the ideological right slightly."
A candidate for president who can't "delineate any specific policy goals on energy production." That's simply not good enough. And thus, Hilary Clinton must be weighed very, very carefully on her environmental record. Forget what she says she believes in now.
That's political shop talk.
Let's look at the facts. And do something for me, open a separate Google windows on your computer and type "Hillary Clinton fracking."
It started back in 2014, with an article just published in Mother Jones magazine details some of Clinton's political wranglings that deserve some severe criticism. According to reporter Mariah Blake, Clinton has been using her State department clout to intervene globally on behalf of giant fossil fuel companies such as Chevron, pushing natural gas fracking on countries that in many cases are resistant to this technology's environmental wake of destruction.
In Bulgaria, for example, the report says, "shortly before Clinton arrived, tens of thousands of protestors poured into the streets carrying placards that read 'stop fracking with our water,' and 'Chevron go home.' Bulgaria's parliament voted overwhelmingly for a moratorium."
But Clinton was not taking no for an answer. She "urged Bulgarian officials to give fracking another chance," and fly in 'the best specialists on these new technologies to present the benefits to the Bulgarian people.'"
But Bulgaria was just the beginning. The article notes that the Obama administration has seen global fracking as a huge, untapped source of fossil fuel that will allow the U.S. to continue business as usual for another 50 years. They argue that it's cleaner burning and will reduce greenhouse gases, but that contention is hotly debated by environmentalists. The photo at right (we added the map) shows all of the many places around the world where fracking is now being pushed, many of them directly or indirectly thanks to Clinton.
As I've written many times before, fracking for natural gas should be banned outright. It's polluting fresh water sources that could be ruined for centuries. We simply don't have the right to poison the world's fresh water to fuel our addiction to dirty power. And politicians without the moral fortitude to figure that out should be held accountable.
Clinton has now changed her position and says she opposes fracking in the U.S.
It's not often that a journalist is compared to "James Bond." Not even the spy-level tactics that the Edward Snowden story required of Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras earned them the comparison.
But Ghanian investigative reporter Anas Aremeyaw Anas is called the 007
His Excellency John Dramani Mahama has said he is happy that the Catholic Bishops of West Africa chose Ghana as the country to host the second plenary assembly.
On Thursday Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi SJ announced that after Pope Francis celebrated his usual morning Mass, he canceled the rest of his appointments
The very interesting man who runs Aiba, the governing body for amateur boxing, sent the sport into a minor frenzy this week when he suggested – not stated – that professionals would be able to box in the Olympics ...
Thanks for that Lionel, old chum. So much for those 71 minutes of precarious but wholehearted team defence. Pack up your anxious, scampering Arsenal counterattacks. Put any fragile hopes of an improbable two-legged team-mugging back in the box. Those divine, restlessly scurrying feet have decided enough is apparently enough.
At times watching Lionel Messi you get the feeling real sporting genius lies in being able to do the outlandishly good every day, to be routinely out of the ordinary. If there is a criticism, it is perhaps simply that on a night like this his match-turning moments can almost seem too humdrum, too reliably ever-present.
Messi scored twice in Barcelona’s 2-0 first-leg victory at the Emirates Stadium, the second a penalty he won himself. Still, regular Messi-watchers would probably rate his performance against the favourites for the Premier League title as merely average, median-Messi. The world’s No1 player has a habit of befuddling English teams, with a highlights reel of death-blows and whirling moments of brilliance, including a performance against Manchester City at the Etihad last year that for 20 minutes or so was surely as good as anything ever seen on a football pitch in England. At the Emirates he restricted himself to some more everyday miracles. It is a very generous kind of attacking brilliance, the kind you never tire of finding words to praise, and the kind that will probably only really make itself felt when he’s finally gone. For now elite football’s glossily packaged inferno of greed and short-term planning has simply lucked out, blessed with a stroke of defining good fortune, a hand that simply keeps on giving.
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Perhaps, when Arsène Wenger has recovered from his post-match frustration, he may even take some heart from parts of his team’s performance. They came to see Messi, but for 71 minutes what they got was Per Mertesacker as Arsenal produced a show of wholehearted but doomed team defence. They had chances in the second half but lacked what Barcelona have in abundance: high-grade, relentless precision.
Messi alone has more than 400 club goals these days. Technically, his right-sided opposite number in red and white was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who played with heart and discipline but also missed Arsenal’s best chance in the first half, and has 14 goals in five years at the club. There is, of course, no sensible comparison here but that is also the point. There is no comparison. Arsenal are a club cautiously on the rise. But for all the improvements and additions of the last two years, they remain as far off this Barça of the divine attacking trident as they have ever been.
It is wrong to focus entirely on Barcelona’s glittering frontline, razor edge of the fine footballing machine behind. Plus, despite the fine practices and sugary rhetoric, this is still an extravagantly acquired supremacy. Arsenal’s entire starting team at the Emirates cost around £130m, less than Barcelona’s second and third best attackers combined. Messi’s total earnings from wages and sponsorship are close to £1m a week, or slightly more than the weekly take-home pay of Arsenal’s first XI.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Neymar can smell fear - Boateng
Bayern Munich defender Jerome Boateng has said that world-class players like Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo can smell fear and never give opponents a minute off during matches.
Boateng, 27, is out with an injury for his Bavarian club, but hopes to return for the end of the Bundesliga season and in time to compete for the German national team at the 2016 Euro in France.
Messi famously tied Boateng up in their 2014-15 Champions League semifinal first leg, causing the German to fall while the Barcelona talisman completed a brilliant goal.
Boateng laughed off that blunder, but maintains that when Messi or fellow Ballon d'Or winner Ronaldo have the ball in space, it's a major challenge for any defender.
Bayern's Jerome Boateng admits both Messi and Ronaldo can smell fear and take advantage of it.
"With Ronaldo or Messi, whatever option you choose is difficult if they come at you with open space," Boateng wrote in the The Players' Tribune.
"They're just so fast. Neymar and Messi are low to the ground and can turn quickly, so it's difficult for defenders like me, who are tall centre-backs. Ronaldo, he's got the height, but he's also got incredible speed, strength and a good header.
"You can't be lazy or caught on your heels with those players, because they will win and they will score. They are just too good for you to make even a little mistake. More than speed or technique though, as a defender you need confidence.
"Ronaldo, Messi, Suarez, Neymar -- they can all smell if you're afraid to duel with them. One whiff and then they destroy you. So you gotta show up."
Boateng's Bayern Munich team gave up a 2-0 lead vs. Juventus on Tuesday to finish in a 2-2 draw in their Champions League last-16 first leg.
The team will look to see out the tie on March 16, when Juve make the trip to Bavaria for the second leg and a berth in the UCL quarterfinals.
The youngster pictured wearing a striped plastic bag with Lionel Messi's name and number on it is now the proud owner of a real Messi shirt -- thanks to the soccer superstar and the United Nations
Lawyer Maurice Ampaw says Asamoah Gyan's latest injury setback is a payback for jilting his client Sarah Kwablah, who the Shanghai SIPG striker is alleged to have
A former chief of staff under the Kufuor administration Kwadwo Mpiani has insisted that Paul Afoko is still the national chairman of the New Patriotic Party, despite being on suspension.
The concluding part of the writ filed by Lawyer Maurice suit – number GJ/26/2016 against Asamoah Gyan for having undignified sexual relations with the plaintiff, Sarah Kwablah,
Trainer Freddie Roach says Manny Pacquiao suffered an eye injury to his right eye sparring this week on Tuesday at the MP Wild Card Gym in General Santos City in the Philippines.
Pacquiao was Wednesday off from sparring. Roach says it’s not
The government of Ghana said now that, he is going to put much resources into the infrastructure development in the country.
Much resource will be committed to developing infrastructures in the country in order to assist the citizens to enjoy living in the country.
