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Monday, 13 July 2020 05:47

Will universities learn from lockdowns? - Kenneth Rogoff

The Covid-19 crisis is likely to bring about further rapid and far-reaching shifts in the economic ground beneath us. But we need not view these changes with dread if the pandemic also propels a transition to better and more universal higher education. Will Covid-19 finally trigger a long-overdue technological disruption of higher education? Throughout the world, sudden mid-semester lockdowns aimed at combating the pandemic forced universities to switch to distance learning almost overnight. But while this rapid transition has been tough for faculty and students alike, some good might yet come of it. Like many businesses, universities are struggling with…

Sunday, 12 July 2020 04:44

Magu, maggots and Maga dogs - Festus Adedayo

Again, the system felled Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) last week. It had always done that. Olusegun Obasanjo, the maiden president at inception of Nigeria’s fourth republic, first erected the crucifixion upon which a crime-fighting czar was hung. While employing the old Yoruba verbal denunciation of thieves by way of pouting lips, clapping both hands repeatedly, literally poking hands into the face of the accused and shouting Ole! Ole! E ki’gbe ole, ole!, Obasanjo did all that against former Inspector General of Police, Tafa Balogun in January, 2005. He did more: Obasanjo asked…

Sunday, 12 July 2020 04:43

Overcoming satanic resistance - Taiwo Akinola

And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan... Zechariah 3:2 Introduction: As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, uncertainty has become the predominant word throughout the world today, and endemic fear runs rampant in many hearts. Yet, you must be reminded that our God is big, all-powerful and He’s on top of it. Nothing can overrule God or set aside His great agenda for the ages (Habakkuk 2:14). May we all be alive long enough on the other side of the crisis and be able to say, “we never had it so good”, in Jesus…

Sunday, 12 July 2020 04:11

Born Again in the eyes of the Mystics - Kola Oyefeso

At last we will be discussing mysticism at length having made it clear that we only need mysticism, if the religion we are in falls short in enabling us access the WORD of God, which is resonating in us ceaselessly all the days of our lives, from the moment of conception all through our exiting the mother’s womb and till we shed the mortal coil, which state we refer to as death. Primarily, we must come to terms as to the meaning of Mysticism. This will assist us understand the nitty gritty of mysticism vis-a-vis the subject being discussed -…

Wednesday, 08 July 2020 16:23

I’ve lost all trust in medical research – the financial muscle of Big Pharma has been busy distorting science during the pandemic

Malcolm Kendrick Evidence that a cheap, over-the-counter anti-malarial drug costing £7 combats Covid-19 gets trashed. Why? Because the pharmaceutical giants want to sell you a treatment costing nearly £2,000. It’s criminal. A few years ago, I wrote a book called ‘Doctoring Data’. This was an attempt to help people understand the background to the tidal wave of medical information that crashes over us each and every day. Information that is often completely contradictory, viz ‘Coffee is good for you... no, wait it's bad for you... no, wait, it’s good for you again,’ repeated ad nauseam. I also pointed out some…

Tuesday, 07 July 2020 05:24

The Covid class war - Yanis Varoufakis

The European Union's proposed recovery fund to counter the pandemic's economic fallout seems destined to leave the majority in every member state worse off. Finance will again be protected, if badly, while workers are left to foot the bill through new rounds of austerity. The euro crisis that erupted a decade ago has long been portrayed as a clash between Europe’s frugal North and profligate South. In fact, at its heart was a fierce class war that left Europe, including its capitalists, much weakened relative to the United States and China. Worse still, the European Union’s response to the pandemic,…

Monday, 06 July 2020 17:13

Priorities for the Covid-19 economy - Joseph E. Stiglitz

With hopes of a sharp rebound from the pandemic-induced recession quickly fading, policymakers should pause and take stock of what it will take to achieve a sustained recovery. The most urgent policy priorities have been obvious since the beginning, but they will require hard choices and a show of political will. Although it seems like ancient history, it hasn’t been that long since economies around the world began to close down in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Early in the crisis, most people anticipated a quick V-shaped recovery, on the assumption that the economy merely needed a short timeout. After…

Monday, 06 July 2020 05:34

As the Ondo governorship election hots up ...(9) - Bola Bolawole

Today is the concluding part of the series on the Ondo governorship election which we started a few weeks ago. Last week we ended on the note of the allegations of nepotism against Governor Rotimi Akeredolu. The allegations in that regard are four-fold. One: That Akeredolu has Owonised/Oghonised Ondo State, placing his Owo/Ogho people everywhere. That the unofficial language in Akure, the capital of Ondo State, has become Ogho/Owo). In that way, Akeredolu is said not to be better than Muhammadu Buhari. While Buhari’s nepotism is clear for everyone to see, however, the allegations of nepotism against Akeredolu have been…

Sunday, 05 July 2020 05:18

The Hushpuppi, Woodberry jibiti generation - Festus Adedayo

Until their arrest and extradition last week by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the United States, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, also known as Ray Hushpuppi and his accomplice in cyber-heist, Olalekan Jacob Ponle, known as ‘Woodberry,’ played second fiddle only to Emmanuel Nwude, former Director of the defunct Union Bank of Nigeria, known to have swung the third largest jibiti in world banking history. Nwude himself was only bested by Nick Leeson and Quasay Hussein. Leeson, ex-English derivatives trader, was a rogue trader whose most fraudulent and notorious heist led to the bankrupting of the Barings Bank, UK’s oldest merchant…

Sunday, 05 July 2020 05:17

Total dominion, the Believers’ heritage in Christ - Taiwo Akinola

Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Luke 10:19 Introduction: The heritage of total dominion is one of the choicest gifts God bestowed upon the believers in Christ Jesus. Indeed, no man can be as privileged as God’s Children; however, you still need to be truly aware of this and walk in the consciousness of it before you can fully enjoy it. If you don’t know who you are and what you have, you suffer unnecessarily under the burden…

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Sunday, 05 July 2020 05:15

Religion and mysticism in juxtaposition - Kola Oyefeso

The promise was to clearly define what true born again means and to do justice to the matter, it becomes compelling to bring in Mysticism although the acceptable word is Spirituality. When we hear mysticism, the biased fickle minds are wont to conjure some sort of vodoo, occult practices, sorcerers, all kinds of magical incantations, spells and conjurations. This is how poorly mysticism has been misunderstood and badly imagined to be. Because of this, some are so scared stiff of any assembly that has no façade of a religion. We would rather label some mystical schools such as the Rosicrucian,…

Sunday, 05 July 2020 05:14

Covid-19 is here to stay. People will have to adapt - Leader, The Economist

It is astonishing how rapidly the pandemic has spread, despite all the efforts to stop it. On February 1st, the day covid-19 first appeared on our front cover, the World Health Organisation counted 2,115 new cases. On June 28th its daily tally reached 190,000. That day as many new cases were notched up every 90 minutes as had been recorded in total by February 1st. The world is not experiencing a second wave: it never got over the first. Some 10m people are known to have been infected. Pretty much everywhere has registered cases (Turkmenistan and North Korea have not,…

Friday, 03 July 2020 05:16

After all, it is Abu’s money - Dare Babarinsa

Finally, the Federal Government has conceded that inter-state movement can be permitted despite the ravaging pandemic of Covid-19. Nothing really has improved in our battle to stem this costly importation from China, only an admission that the government has not really succeeded in stopping unnecessary interstate movements. In the South-West, movements have been going on all the same despite the ban and law enforcement agents, knowing that toll-gate is good in a democratic society, were happy to create their own. The Covid-19 pandemic would not go away quickly and we know that for many more months to come, the body…

Thursday, 02 July 2020 16:20

How China scammed Hong Kong - Yi-Zheng Lian

After many years of rejecting the people of Hong Kong’s persistent demands for genuine universal suffrage and other rights, China made its position clear again on Tuesday with the legislative equivalent of a cracking head bash. It chose the eve of July 1, a triple anniversary — of the birth of the Chinese Communist Party (1921), the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China (1997) and a break-in of the city’s legislature by pro-democracy activists (2019) — to pass a draconian national security law that will forever harm Hong Kong’s political freedoms and hobble its economic relations with the…

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