Happy Birthday to you Papa ! Thank you very much Grandmum we love you

Queen Elizabeth II grants Princes their own households
Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Prince William and Prince Harry have been granted their own royal household by their grandmum, Queen Elizabeth II. It doesn’t mean that the royal hotties have scored their own apartments or houses, but they have been awarded staff who will support the heir and the spare in their public duties and private lives. The two princes will share one household with three main staff members including Sir David Manning, the former British ambassador to Washington who will work as a part-time adviser to Wills and Harry. But the real score is that the boys received cyphers (logos) to announce their household. William’s cypher is red - the same color used by the Queen and his father, Prince Charles - and consists of a “W” topped with a coronet. Harry’s cypher is similar, but has an “H” and is blue - a similar shade to that used by his late mother Diana, the Princess of Wales.








The Prince was handed a cake sporting a bus pass
Prince Charles chose to begin his milestone 60th birthday by meeting young people at a project run by his own charity in east London.
Showing no signs of fatigue after a lavish banquet in his honour the night before, the Prince, accompanied by the Duchess of Cornwall, could not escape the fact it was his special day.
He was greeted with cheers of 'Happy Birthday, sir', from assembled photographers, birthday banners were pinned to the wall and he was handed a cake sporting a bus pass by the Sun newspaper.
One passer-by even broke protocol to give the heir to the throne a birthday kiss on the cheek as he got into his car.
He was marking his 60th by launching the Prince Trust's Youth Week, which aims to highlight the positive contribution young people make to society.

When I asked him for the kiss he just leaned forward and went for it
Naiyer Qureshi
His first destination was a pavilion in Beckton where members of the Trust's Team programme, which teaches life skills, have reclaimed a disused bowling green for the community.
He admired murals before sitting and playing with three-year-olds who use the building's nursery.
Ibrahim Mehmit, who helped to paint the murals, shares the Prince's birthday, albeit with 40 years' difference.
"I wished him happy birthday and he wished me one back. Then he asked if I was 24 and I said 'No, I'm 20', and he said 'You're still young. I can't remember when I was 20," he said.
Ibrahim, who makes music and wants to work in the industry, said the Prince had defied his expectations.

The Team project teaches life skills to help young people get work
"I thought he would be stiff and just stand there, but he came across as a nice person and can talk to people, he's really down to earth," he said.
The royal party then moved onto the nearby Beckton Community Centre to meet a variety of young people the charity has helped with practical and financial support.
The Prince's Trust works with 14-30-year-olds who have struggled at school, been in care, are long-term unemployed or have been in trouble with the law.
Since its 1976 inception, it has helped 575,000 people and supports 100 more every working day.
Charity's work
Among the guests was Steve Godwin, 27, who left school with no qualifications and found it hard to get work.
After years of drifting in and out of jobs he was advised to speak to the Prince's Trust about a business idea.
A £2,700 grant allowed him set up a leafleting business that offers information packs with ideas on activities young people can safely take part in outside of school.
"I now just feel really happy. Before, my whole life was failing, I had no hope for anything. I just think it's the most important charity you can come across, it actually makes changes for people," he said.

The Trust has helped 575,000 people since 1976
Cynics might say the life of a 60-year-old prince is a world away from the young people he met but on the day many said his charity's work provided relevance to their lives.
Steve Godwin said: "He must be a very nice man if he set up the Prince's Trust. It completely changes the lives of so many people, it plays an important part in youth culture."
In a speech launching Youth Week, the Prince congratulated the young people who he said were making "a fantastic difference" by leading and inspiring others.
He said: "A lot of the future is going to depend on all of you, and all you have been doing over all of these years, believe it or not, is investing in the future.
"So I hope you can provide the kind of return I've been expecting in terms of what you can do for your own communities and other people."
There was one more birthday surprise for the Prince as he left for his second birthday engagement, when Naiyer Qureshi from Beckton gave him a birthday peck on the cheek.
Speaking after the royals departed for a classical concert organised by The Prince's Foundation for Children and the Arts, she said she could not believe she had done it.
"He's not proud or stuck up and I just thought 'why not?'. The police didn't seem that bothered about keeping us back," she said.
"When I asked him for the kiss he just leaned forward and went for it. I thought should I go for the other cheek but I could see his wife in the background."

I am so surp-rised what great things God Almighty is doing in my life , everyday I have tons of miraculos responds to my Hope ,,, and even J J wept ,

As the crowd from all walks of life white and black, young and old, rich and poor, poured in the Grant Park in Chicago in their tens of thousands there stood one of the greatest Civil rights architect of all time Rev. Jesse Jackson weeping emotionally and uncontrollably.

At long last the curtains between the holy of holies and the Outer court of American and world politics have been finally rented and the words ‘All things are possible’ keeps reverberating and echoing loud in the minds of all creation.

Today after a long wait to see the first Black President of the United States of America, history has been made. A little over 200 years ago, slave trade was abolished; 44 years ago the civil rights law was passed in the United States of America by the 36th President of the United States of America President Lyndon Johnson enabling all men including Blacks to be able to exercise their franchise.

A year before that on the 28th of August 1963, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the march on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a defining moment of the American Civil rights Movement was recorded when Dr. King delivered what I see as a national prophesy to over two hundred and fifty thousand civil rights supporters, the speech is often considered to be one of the greatest and most notable speeches in history and was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address.

Just 18 years ago, the Blackman had no say in democratic issues in his own country in South Africa, but in 1994, Nelson Mandela’s election as South African President brought a glamour of hope to the Black continent and ended White minority dominated rule known as apartheid in South Africa.

I came to know about Obama in the summer of 2006 when I visited North Carolina to preach in a Local church. There I prophesied and declared that this man would rule the world shortly. At the time people thought I was too over zealous and questioned the Blackman’s readiness to rule America, anyway I have news for you, just this morning I read this email from President elect Barack Obama;


I know some people have argued that Barack Obama is not a black person anyway. I beg to differ. Barack is a first generation son of a Kenyan farmer from Kogelo in Northern Kenya, a Luo who migrated to America. Barack has always referred to himself as black. He has visited Kenya on many occasions and even has a school named after him in Kenya. Almost all the media houses in America, they refer to him as black as they do to anyone with a pint of black blood in his bloodstream.



Obviously I don’t expect Obama or America to solve all of Africa’s problems but it will in no doubt give hope to the hopeless, motivation to the young under achieving school drop out that truly all things are possible. Obama had a difficult life at some point in his up upbringing even to the extent of experimenting with drugs on some occasions but that was not enough to write him off from coveting the most important job the world has to offer today.

Where as I admit that this article might not resonate with everyone, I strongly believe there is some one out there just like the slaves that were forced out of the shores of Africa against their will, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther-King, Jesse Jackson amongst others, who have been buttered, bruised and abused not through any fault of theirs but because the skin of their colour. Who might have shed a few tears with Oprah Winfrey, Jesse Jackson and I through out last night when Barack Obama was declared the winner of the 2008 presidential election.

Today, America has shown that it doesn’t matter your colour or creed but the content of your character and what you have to offer. We have made so much progress in a short time since the late 1960s and I am very confident that this will change the face of world politics and the lives of young and old, black and white and Asian and Hispanic and anyone that wishes to achieve bigger things in life.

As Jesse Jackson wept, I could imagine what went through his mind. The America I grew up in has changed and that change has come at last through decades of priceless toils and bloodshed.

There is now a feeling of opportunities and possibilities. We can truly say that with ‘God all things are possible’. I can’t wait for the life story of Obama to be played by the likes of Will Smith in Hollywood, probably I will be one of the first to lay hands on the movie. Thank God at least this is not a movie but a reality.

Arise, arise my brothers and sisters and let’s take a clue from this as we build Africa and mother Ghana. Let put our house in order (Let the fighting cease, stop the corruption etc) and make it easy for ‘Nana’ Barack Obama to rule. To Barack I say kudos! Come on Barack! May The Lord Almighty help you rule with the wisdom of Solomon and the distinction of King David.

Shalom! Shalom ! Shalom!

I am all amazed that even the prince cares a lot about the neglected , old and sick people in all the corners of our univers ,, ,,,

Prince William launches Centrepoint's 40th anniversary year and gives a speech

6th November 2008
Prince William helped youth homelessness charity Centrepoint launch their 40th anniversary year this evening and spoke of the reasons he became involved with the charity.
Centrepoint, of which Prince William is Patron, has helped more than 70,000 young people since it was founded in 1969.
The charity works with young people, aged 16 to 25, and provides them with accommodation and support services.
After arriving at the reception, hosted by HSBC at offices on St James’s Street in London, Prince William was introduced to 10 young people who have all been helped and supported by the charity.
Later in a speech Prince William paid tribute to his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, who had been the charity's Patron from 1992 until her death in 1997, for introducing him to the charity.
He said: “I feel very closely linked to Centrepoint. It is a charity with which both my mother and father became passionately involved.
“Indeed, it was while my mother was Patron that Harry and I had our first contact with Centrepoint.”
“But it began to open my eyes to the world that so many young London people face.
“Our visits with our mother ignited a deep and growing interest for the great work the charity does for the homeless.
“That example of selfless service that Centrepoint represents has stayed with me, and that is why it was the first charity that I wanted to be associated with.”
The Prince also spoke of his feelings of pride at being Centrepoint’s Patron.
He said: “Since becoming Patron, I have been privileged to witness at first hand, and with the utmost admiration, the great work of its volunteers.
“But I have seen something else too: the extraordinary courage of so many of Centrepoint’s young people in rising to meet such seemingly insurmountable challenges in their lives.
“I count myself enormously privileged to be associated with such individuals, and with such an organisation as this.”
In a more light-hearted moment, Prince William said: "I don't want to say too much because there's lots of food and drink going around and the young guys probably want to get more involved in that than listen to me talk."
Afterwards, all the guests at the reception were moved by an emotional speech made by a young beneficiary, Samia Meah, 18, from Bangladesh.
She said: "I left home when I had barely turned 17; my father died when I was four, both my brother and mother suffered with mental illness and I was a young carer."
But Samia told the audience how the charity helped her through her difficulties and allowed her to become the person she had always wanted to be, telling guests about her aspiration to become a photographer.
She said: "After my A levels I received a card from Centrepoint congratulating me on my results. It made me cry because I had never received congratulations on anything I've ever done before.
“Centrepoint has given me the rest of my life, so thank you."
Soon afterwards Prince William spoke to Samia to praise her for her bravery in talking about her experiences.
She said: "He noticed I was overwhelmed, he said I did better than him speaking.
"He was lovely, really nice and friendly and I always wanted to meet him, I even went to the Diana concert last year to see him but didn't get to so I was thrilled to meet him finally tonight, he's great."
Other young people had the chance to chat with Prince William and talk about their experiences.
Scott Ingram, 18, from Hammersmith, West London, said how he had told the Prince that one idea he had was to introduce a "noise time".
He said: "We're teenagers, we don't have bed times so in the hostels it would be good instead to have noise time where people reduce their volume after a certain time.
"He agreed and said that perhaps we could bribe somebody with a Mars Bar."
Hopea Wasame, 21, from central London, said William was "really bubbly, he's really fun and he understands what we are talking about".
She said: "It means a lot to have Prince William supporting us and shows people care and that you don't have to be royal or a high-flyer – you just need to care."
Prince William's attendance at the event in central London marks the start of a year of 40th anniversary celebrations for the charity.

Hillary's Universal Village ,,, I Never knew achieving universal village can be that easy Compared to the Atomic Bomb of Self Destruction

Former President Rawlings on Wednesday paid a courtesy call on the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and later the Bantamahene, Nana Amankwaatia V, to seek their consent to hold a rally at Bantama.

Issues discussed included the role influential traditionalists had to play to ensure transparent, free and fair general election on December 7.

At Manhyia Rawlings appealed to Ghanaians to scrutinize presidential candidates before voting them into power as that will eliminate politics of lies and atrocities and ensure lasting peace and harmony.

He noted that choosing a national leader is quite different from the process leading to the selection of a traditional ruler where kingmakers vet the person to ensure that the right person is selected to lead them to glory and honor.

A statement issued by Kofi Adam, Special Aide to former President Rawlings quoted Otumfuo Osei Tutu II as advising the Electoral Commission not to connive with any political party to mar the December polls but prepare adequately to avoid technical challenges.

Bantamahene



Nana Bantamahene receives ex-President Rawlings to Bantama
“He also warned politicians against bad utterances and insults, which bring confusion.”

“At the Bantamahene’s palace, Barfuor Amankwatia V commended the former president for his exceptional role in the country’s democratic process, which according to the chief has brought the country to the point where it is now, a role model for all Africa.”

He said his palace was always opened to the former President.