Why Poverty Continues To Prevail In Our World

By Ahmed Olayinka Sule, CFA Remember the poor – it costs nothing Mark Twain Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. Barack Obama [...]

IN SUPPORT OF THE JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON MARTIN

All, I guess you must have been following the Trayvon Martin saga http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin Well despite it been almost a month since Trayvon’s life was tragically cut down, the police is yet to make an arrest. This apathy by the police in the pursuit of justice has created an outcry in the States with thousands of [...]

Prime Minister Cameron:Please Don’t Forget the Powerless

Prime Minister Cameron:  When Protecting, Supporting and Encouraging the Powerful, Please Don’t Forget the Powerless   by Ahmed Olayinka Sule, CFA suleaos@gmail.com Introduction As the Great Recession enters its fifth year, governments, businesses and individuals all over the world and especially those in the developed world have been significantly impacted. The USA has witnessed a [...]

Russia & China’s Veto on Syria and the Hypocrisy of the West

A generation, which ignores history, has no past: and no future – Robert Heinlein   To know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain forever a child.         – Cicero   History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. – Mark Twain   History does not usually make real sense until long [...]

Martin Luther King’s Letter To #OCCUPYNIGERIA

Transcribed by Ahmed Olayinka Sule, CFA   suleaos@gmail.com http://about.me/ahmedsule   16 January 2012   In the United States, the 16th of January 2012 is Martin Luther King Day. The day is a public holiday to commemorate Martin Luther King’s birthday. During King’s life, he championed justice, equity and freedom. In Nigeria, the masses, who have [...]

The Maladjusted Non Conformist

“The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.” ~Martin Luther King Jr. Maladjusted: badly or unsatisfactorily adjusted, especially in relationship to one’s social circumstances, environment, etc. ~Entry from Urban Dictionary Every society honors its living [...]

Worthy and Unworthy Racial Discrimination in England

Results from a Google Search conducted on 23 November 2011: 8:50 pm  using the following terms: Baroness Flather Racism – 4,570 results Luis Suarez Racism – 451,000 results David Starkey Racism – 521,00 results John Terry Racism – 2,950,000 results Sepp Blatter Racism – 3,900,000 result Introduction With the fourth year of the global financial [...]

Fuel Subsidy, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Nigerian Masses

  by Ahmed Olayinka Sule, CFA suleaos@gmail.com http://about.me/ahmedsule   The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim [...]

A big idea that is worthy of credit

By Ahmed Sule (China Daily) http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2011-09/16/content_13716831.htm Since I penned an article titled “Time for a new credit rating lifeline” (China Daily European Weekly, Aug 19) in which I argued for the formation of a BRICS-led credit rating agency (CRA) to rival Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s Investor Service and Fitch Ratings, a number of events have [...]

Time for a new credit rating lifeline

By Ahmed Sule (China Daily European Weekly) http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2011-08/19/content_13151109.htm Credit rating agencies play a significant role in the financial world. They help clear up confusion in the capital market by providing investors and lenders with information so they can make informed decisions about the credit worthiness of debt obligations and financial products. But they can also [...]

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