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Thursday, 28 November 2024 04:54

Transforming pedagogy for Generative AI era: A vision for the future - Beata M. Jones

Education is at a pivotal crossroads. As generative AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and NotebookLM continue to advance, their potential impact on education is undeniable. Expertsforecast that by 2025 universities are projected to invest up to $20 million over the next five years in AI-driven curricula, a clear sign of the growing commitment to integrating AI into higher education. They also predict that AI could boost graduation rates by 43%. AI tools are not just supplementary; they are transformative, capable of generating information, providing feedback, and suggesting creative solutions, among countless other functions. The question for educators is no…

Tuesday, 26 November 2024 04:39

The president may be angry, but we’re hungry - Ahmed Aminu-Ramatu Yusuf

Nigerians are hungry. But who will tell our President? Who will dare convey such treasonable tale to President Bola Tinubu, especially when he is so busy seeking investors for us? Which of his throng of information couriers and propaganda merchants would jeopardise their juicy positions by bearing such information? Anyone who dares may in fact be an agent of the opposition. I respect the Presidency. And fear his powers. Didn’t the African wise man counsel that we the commoners should be as close to the king as a thousand metres and be as far away from him as two thousand…

Monday, 25 November 2024 04:06

140 years after the Berlin West Africa Conference - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu & Chepkorir Sambu

Described by one scholar on its centenary as “perhaps the greatest historical movement of modern times”, the Berlin Conference West Africa Conference began shortly after noon on 15 November 1884. Interrupted only by a short break at the end of the year and the beginning of the next, historian, Adu Boahen, records that the conference ended on 31 January 1884. On 26 February 1885, the powers gathered at the conference ratified the General Act of the Berlin Conference, which embodied their agreements. The week before the ratification of the General Act, according to historian, Godfrey Uzoigwe, the Lagos Observer newspaper…

Sunday, 24 November 2024 04:41

Obasanjo and Tinubu’s Tańtólóhun dogs - Festus Adedayo

In ???????????? ???????????????????????? ???????????????????????? ???????????? ???????????????????????? ???????? ???????????? ???????????????? – ???????????? ???????????????????????? ???????? ????????????????, ???????????? ???????? ???????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????: Essays by Ulli Beier, edited by Wole Ogundele, (2001) Horst Ulrich Beier, famously known as Ulli Beier, had an engaging narrative about the power and powerlessness of dogs. He entitled the narrative, Dog Magic of Yoruba Hunters. In it, Beier related how his dog, which he provocatively named Tańtólóhun, (who can compare with God?)’s weird tantrums, which occurred in Osogbo in the early 1960s, could mirror the insufferable power and limitations of dogs. The motive of telling the story, he said, was…

Sunday, 24 November 2024 04:40

When mercy speaks - Taiwo Akinola

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need ~ Hebrews 4:16. Introduction It has been shown over the ages that God’s mercy is a major all-time need of man. Why? Man doesn’t always get what he deserves, but what mercy delivers to him: “it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy” (Romans 9:16). Naturally, the journey of life is too cumbersome and very difficult to predict. Sometimes, certain unwholesome events come calling, when they…

Sunday, 24 November 2024 04:39

Article of Faith: No other father but God - Femi Aribisala

Paul maintains that Abraham is the father of believers. He says: “(Abraham) received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe.” (Romans 4:11). “Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.” (Romans 4:16). However, Isaiah says: “But…

Saturday, 23 November 2024 04:31

Kemi in bed with the enemy to become leading Black White Supremacist - Justice Faloye

The UK Conservative Party was created in the mid 1800s during Queen Victoria's reign 'to Conserve the White sociocultural, economic and political sphere', following the 1830s abolition of African slavery. This Conservative mantra, to institutionally restrict freed Blacks from competing with Whites, spread across Western Europe as Christian Democratic Parties and to the US Republican Party. Therefore it is oxymoronic for an African to be a Conservative of the Western or any other civilization. A Black White Supremacist. This was why Kemi Badenoch has to publicly deride Nigeria, the world's most populous Black nation, the origin of humanity and source…

Friday, 22 November 2024 04:33

The trouble with giving to Caesar - Azu Ishiekwene

It’s a famous story in Christendom. Palestine, a vassal territory under the Roman Emperor Caesar, was obliged to pay tributes and taxes to Rome. A radical teacher in the territory, Jesus, taught things that the teachers of the law and local administrators in Palestine were uncomfortable with. After setting traps for him but missing, they pitted him against Caesar by asking him a question that could have gotten him in trouble and possibly gotten rid of him for good. “Is it lawful to pay taxes?” the Pharisees asked him. “Give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and unto God what is…

Tuesday, 19 November 2024 04:34

Capitalism is driving democracy’s death spiral - Katharina Pistor

This US election marks what Germans call a Zeitenwende (“turning point”). Voters are signaling clearly that they want change, preferring a second Donald Trump administration to another caretaker government presiding over a regime that they reject. True, political parties that promised to protect the status quo have lost elections in country after country this year. But the significance of voters in the world’s oldest democracy rejecting their country’s constitutional foundations – the rule of law, an independent and impartial judiciary, due process, and an orderly transfer of power – can hardly be overestimated. The blame game started before the election…

Monday, 18 November 2024 04:49

Emmanuel Obioma Ogwuegbu: The last of a few good men? - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Phillip Adenekan Adekunle Ademola had everything it takes for an excellent career at the highest levels of a judicial career. He was the grand-son of a king, the son of a Chief Justice and a prince in his own right. In another era, he could easily have become the first second generation Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN. It was his destiny to make neither and many still believe that he could well have been the ablest Justice of the Supreme Court Nigeria never had. Born 27 July 1926, Adenekan Ademola finished his high school at Kings College in Lagos in…

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Sunday, 17 November 2024 04:14

Lagbaja: When Generals, the Olúóde, die - Festus Adedayo

The Yoruba believe in the law of causation, a principle of philosophy which says that, every change in nature is produced by some cause. To buttress this, they posit authoritatively that a tree will never fall in the forest and kill peasants at home. Following this causative trail, they also say that rafters will never sink and kill a passerby (Igi kìí dá l'óko kó pa ará ilé; àjà kìí jìn k’ó pa èrò ònà). Sakara music lord, Yusuff Olatunji, appropriated an ancient Yoruba words of incantation while paying obeisance to the powers and principalities of this world, otherwise called…

Sunday, 17 November 2024 04:12

Maximizing grace for glorious breakthroughs - Taiwo Akinola

And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me ~ Ezekiel 2:2. Introduction: It cannot be overemphasized that every excelling goodness on earth is a product of the grace of God. Grace is favour minus the sweat and the duress of labour. Gracebrings promotion without certain known and essential credentials (Romans 9:16). No matter how impossible things appear to be, there will always be a performance for the man who has contacted God’s exceeding grace. Even in situations where “able” men have had it…

Sunday, 17 November 2024 04:10

Article of Faith: Idol worship (2) - Femi Aribisala

Sometimes we pray to fulfil all righteousness. And after we have prayed, we come back to our senses and have panic attacks. A lady’s son was going back to the United States from Nigeria. He had an American passport and a Nigerian passport simultaneously. He came in with his Nigerian passport, which meant that he did not get a Nigerian visa. But if he tries to leave with his Nigerian passport, they would require him to show a visa for his destination, the United States. That meant he would have to show his American passport. But dual nationality had been…

Saturday, 16 November 2024 04:58

At the end of the day, you’re just one person - Tola Adeniyi

Has it ever occurred to you that you are after all just one person? As the great humorist and philanthropist extra-ordinary MKO Abiola used to say: “No one is a ‘four-man” [foreman]. “It is sheer flattery to call a man ‘four man’” he used to quip. And really and truly, no one is ever more than one. People who hold offices and find themselves surrounded by retinue of servants and hangers- on get so carried away that they hardly ever have time to reflect on their positions in life. When a man gets down from his car and about a…

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