The Russia-Ukraine crisis has thrust many countries, including those in Africa, into a geopolitical conundrum. As different global actors navigate the troubled geopolitical waters resulting from the attempted hegemonic shift in global power, it is important that neither the East, the West and its European allies nor Russia take...
The word "audit" derives from the Latin word “audire” which means "to hear.” According to Wikipedia, during the days of old when manual bookkeeping was prevalent, auditors in Britain used to “hear” the accounts read out for them and checked that the organisation's personnel were not negligent or fraudulent...
As the morning rises
He rises from a bed
Not of roses
He misses sleep
He battles wakefulness
And wakes from sleeplessness
As the morning progresses
He jumps out of his automobile
His new model
And hurries into one of their rickety mini-buses
Trusting to cut fuelling stress
And prune running expenses
He wades through the traffic
The fare he pays
Makes no...
As I sat down quietly to listen to a radio conversation about the current Finance Minister’s position over his decision to initially reject the IMF programme but subsequently accept it brought to mind how the game called poker is played.
Pot committed is a term used in playing the poker...
Recent headlines seem to augur a global debt crisis. The United States is teetering on the precipice of a self-inflicted default. Egypt, Ghana, Pakistan, and many other countries are in grave financial difficulties. Italy and Japan’s debt burdens have grown heavier. And the Chinese are delaying or hampering multilateral...