THE other day, I sat up and took notice as I read a BBC News report that “poor numeracy is blighting Britain's economic performance, and ruining lives... Millions of people struggle to understand a pay-slip, a train timetable, a household bill!” [Judith Burns, BBC News: March 1, 2012].
I really do not understand the phrase leaders are born, not made. Or is it the other way round? I mean, even before the baby is born it has to be made in the name of conception, right?
A FEW weeks ago a friend of mine told me this story. His little son fell ill and had developed a very high body temperature. Being a man with a certain awareness of medicine, he noticed that the child was having difficulty in swallowing food so he suspected some pain in the throat.
FAILURE to thrive is a delay in physical growth and weight gain that can lead to delay in development and maturation. Failure to thrive is a diagnosis given to children who are considerably underweight or who do not gain weight for unclear reasons. There are many causes.
WHERE there is no obvious doubt, there is always plenty to doubt. A couple that always wears a jovial smile in public is actually awfully unhappy behind closed doors. People playing goody two-shoes often turn out to be the neighbourhood hussies or petty criminals. And it goes on and on.
In our recent series of articles, we have discussed growing lawlessness in urban life in a number of aspects. We saw increasing lawlessness with regard to the urban transport sector.
Thursday morning greeted me with all sorts of shamra-shamra celebrating and commemorating Women's Day. Every radio station played music celebrating women and the presenters took the time to voice out the intensive research they had done towards the various issues affecting women. 
WE were to catch MV Kigamboni, a ferry plying the common creek of Kigamboni in Dar es Salaam to reach our destination. Had the MV Kigamboni been the only vessel plying the creek, my wife, daughter Penina and I, would have been disappointed deeply on this particular Sunday last week as we were going to visit another daughter Judy, Penina’s elder sister.
THE newly introduced Monday slot in the ITV programme christened dakika 45 (forty five minutes) is a new found political fire-line pulling a good number of viewers.
