My Opinion on the Michelle Obama tape release

1. ronreagan Says:
   November 28, 2008 at 7:14 am

   I agree 100%. I was concerned and hoping that the tape would not be released Wednesday or Thursday, Thanksgiving Day. It would have been a very bad idea to do so.. Plus, if it had been released on Thursday, it would have received virtually zero media coverage.

   It would not be good to make the release on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday either.

   The best time to release the tape and birth information would be Monday or Tuesday, between 8am and 3pm EST. If released by 3pm EST, it may be picked up by the major network news for their 6pm broadcasts.

   For maximum exposure the tape and Kenyan birth register should be released before 11am EST, for Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and all the other talk show hosts to find it, and pick up the story and run with it, in addition to all the bloggers in the blogosphere. If all that is done it may very well end up in the major network news that evening and the newspapers the following day.

   If this tape and the Kenyan birth register are not released by 3 pm EST Tuesday afternoon then I do not know what to say. There is just absolutely no excuse that can justify postponing this past Tuesday. Monday will be the 47th day that we have known about this.

Nigeria: Desertification affects 35 million nigerians

This is because the Sahara desert is said to be moving southwards at the rate of 0.6 kilometres per annum, just as the rate of deforestation has been about 350,000 hectares per annum.

This was part of a report presented to the House of Representatives Committee on Environment when it received a joint delegation of officials from the Agricultural Development Company Limited, Israel and the Federal Ministry of Environment.

The Isreali firm and the Nigerian government are collaborating under the Desert-to-Food Programme to eradicate the menace of desertification.

Chairman, House Committee on Environment, Honourable Duro Faseyi, who while receiving progress report on the Green Wall Project / World Bank project on Tree Planting and Green Wall Sahara, said the House was worried about the devastating effect of desertification in northern Nigeria and was prepared to collaborate with relevant organisations and institutions working in that area to stop desert encroachment.

Faseyi expressed dismay that the Federal Ministry of Environment has not been carrying the parliament along in the projects, and assured that the committee will provide the enabling legislative framework to encourage tree planting and enhance successful execution of the Green Wall Project in the country.

Director of Desertification, Federal Ministry of Environment, Mr Ononina Nkem, who briefed the committee on the state of desertification and progress on the Green Wall project, said desertification was posing serious threat to the nation’s economy, food security and employment.

According to him, about 35 million people in the northern parts of the country are suffering from the menace of desertification. He noted that the Sahara desert is moving southwards at a rate of 0.6 kilometres per year, adding that the rate of deforestation between 1978 and 1995 alone was about 350,000 hectare per annum.

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API/source.This Day (Nigeria)- November 24, 2008.