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This country is in serious trouble. It’s a broken nation, to say the least. Economist, Paul Collier, in his TED talk “New Rules for rebuildi...

Growing githeyoirus? Here’s how you do it: put some soil into a pot, add a bit of cow dung, plant a few seeds and just water the pot everyda...

After I wrote a blog post on how to make loads of money in the Maldives , someone asked me if the ‘hakuru’ pushers really do make that kind ...

Today, I have a little research in freakonomics. After a friend of mine recently told me how he could quadruple Rf 3,000 in 2 days I became ...

Islam is a costly affair . So is the army . And so are the other institutions. Everything in this country is costly. Expensive. Obscenely ex...

Here’s another white elephant that’s going to get your knickers in a twist. 5 to 8 laari out of every rufiyaa we earn is spent on our Defenc...

Islamic Affairs Ministry has a budget of Rf 211million – that’s twice as much as we are spending on tourism, information and arts and a who...

This morning while having a chat with a friend I became a little curious on the corporate entities in which our Government holds shares. Af...

The blogger in me has hibernated for over nine months now. Visitors to this blog and my friends have at times questioned me about my long ab...

A finance minister is perhaps the last person to win a popularity contest during a recession. When Alistair Darling proposed his budget it ...