Africa often shines with ideas and is always the origin of good and prosperous ideas. The oldest known possibly mathematical object is the Lebombo bone, discovered in the Lebombo mountains of Swaziland and dated to approximately 35,000 BC. It consists of 29 distinct notches cut into a baboon’s fibula, (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LebomboBone.html). The Ishango bone, found near [...]

The world statistics congress organises a biannual conference through the International Statistics Institute (ISI) hosted in different parts of the world. It has organised such events since the year 1885. I have been very luck to have participated in two most recent ones, that is the ISIDurban2009 and ISIDublin2011. How I am continuously hopefull that [...]

The national development programme NDP for most developing countries have good intentions in empowering their citizens and moving positively on the way out of poverty towards better and affordable standards both at individual and national levels. The NDPs for Zambia and Uganda, for example desire a movement from low income to medium income societies in [...]

I was invited and sponsored by GIZ, a German organisation for International Cooperation that attracted over one thousand seven hundred thousand participants from all over the world. For us the GIZ sponsored participants, it all started with a pre-conference workshop that was held on the 24th May, 2011 which introduced to us among others the [...]

Science is the Art of logical implementation of discrete objects while Art is the Science of the appearance of discrete objects. To say that Science and Art are two mutually exclusive academic disciplines is very unrealistically criminal because of the following reasons derived from the definitions above: First principles show that Science is an Art [...]

I would like to thank all those who wished me a happy new year 2011 and also take the opportunity to wish you all a happy new year, 2011. Year in year out, people send out messages via whatever media wishing their dear ones a happy new year. Infact, some happy new year messages begin [...]

Air traffic delay is not only a source of inconvenience to the aviation passenger, but also a major deterrent to the optimisation of airport utility, especially in the developing countries. Many developing countries do less to abate this otherwise seemingly invincible constraint to development. The overall objective of this study was to investigate the dynamics [...]

I would like to wholeheartedly thank all those who turned up at my PhD defense on the 21st October, 2010. Did you know that my birthday was on the 25th October! I also deliver my appreciation to all those who managed to turn up for dinner on the same day at Imperial Royale. May God [...]

The level of difficulty of any human solvable challenge is in the attitude of the beholder! However, it also depends on the level of the stairs one stands. Hence, the best way to make any judgement or criticism  should not only be multi-dimensionally approached, but also should take into account different degrees of statistically significant [...]

The stochastic nature of political and social processes determines economic development of the world’s poorest continent, Africa! History plays a fundamental role in all these interactions! I was either unfortunate or fortunate not to have studied history, not because it was a very difficult subject for me since I was the best in my senior [...]