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Tuesday, 23 May 2023 03:48

‘Colo-mentality’ as bane of Yoruba-Igbo South and Middlebelt original African existence - Justice J. Faloye

We have been made to believe everything foreign is better than ours. The 'White is Right' Colonial Mentality which is aptly known as Coloniality of the Self/Being. In addition to the high rate of bleaching, there is a deep-seated racial inferiority complex that affects the quality and length of our lives, from our foods, architecture, dressing, religion, medicine, family organization, work ethics, employment practices and social responsibility. Our worldviews have been so warped that even if God dropped a first class industrialized economy or democratic system on our laps, we might not patronize it, or even sabotage it. There are…

Tuesday, 23 May 2023 03:47

I was adopted from China. People ask if I feel 'lucky' — and my answer isn't what they expect - Iris Anderson

The first time I was in China, I became one of her lost girls. As I was taken from my birth mother’s arms and placed at a nearby train station, I became a statistic ―another baby uprooted by the country’s one-child policy. At 11 months old, I was plucked from China’s embrace and placed into that of my parents. My roots began to grow in the soil of a different land. When I was old enough to comprehend the gravity of my truth, my parents sat me down and told me that I had been adopted from China. This supposed…

Monday, 22 May 2023 04:29

Trump was right: 'Russian collusion' was a hoax. Good luck regaining public's trust - Ingrid Jacques

After four years, we finally have the full 316-page report from Justice Department special counsel John Durham, and it’s a damning indictment of some of our country’s leading institutions. Durham said the FBI should have never launched an investigation into alleged Russian collusion with Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, given the slim evidence. That is a huge win for Trump, who has for years called out his unfair treatment by the FBI – and a media all too willing to find blame in the former president’s actions. The investigation into the "collusion" clouded Trump’s entire presidency, and Democrats harnessed the tale…

Monday, 22 May 2023 04:28

10th NASS leadership and the burden of morality - Hassan Gimba

In the system of governance we practise, there are three arms – the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. The Legislature is said to be the first among the three. The arms are characterised by the principle of separation of powers as each is supposed to be independent of the other. The doctrine of separation of powers was first formulated by one of the most important 18th Century political scientists, the French political philosopher, Baron de Montesquieu, in his work De l'esprit des lois, or ‘The Spirit of the Laws’ (1748), which states that “There can be no liberty where the legislative…

Sunday, 21 May 2023 03:29

Lamidi Apapa’s missing cap - Festus Adedayo

Turbulent anger of Obidients landed on Lamidi Apapa last week. By the time their anger petered out, Apapa had lost his cap to a God-knows-who. Esu Elegbara, the trickster deity of the Yoruba people, it will seem, lives in caps. Though most of the exploits of Esu exist in myths, Yoruba constructed a pantheon of beliefs that implicate the Esu as divisive and full of tricks. One of such, sauced in mythology, was translated into a very sobering track by ace Yoruba Awurebe musician, Dauda Akanmu Adeeyo, popularly known as Dauda Epo Akara. Famous for his anecdotal offerings affixed to…

Sunday, 21 May 2023 03:28

Fulfilling destiny together in godly marital unions - Taiwo Akinola

Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war ~ Proverbs 20:18. Introduction Starting right, going great and finishing excellently is God’s plan for every marital union. Nevertheless, the holy union can be fulfilling only when and where God's purposes are fully tracked, clearly understood and lovingly embraced. Every marital union established on earth is assigned to a clear agenda from heaven, and in order to excel in it, couples must choose never to settle for ordinary relationships, but rather strive to glorify God through a kingdom-focused togetherness, till the end of time. In normal godly Christian…

Sunday, 21 May 2023 03:27

Article of faith: Do you want to go to heaven? - Femi Aribisala

As a young believer, the Holy Spirit told me something that shattered me. He said heaven is not for me. “There is no food in heaven. There is no sex in heaven. None of the material possessions you crave is in heaven. What would you want to do in such a boring place?” He asked. The truth of the matter is that Christians are not interested in heaven. The earth is where all our treasures are in. Jesus asked a man sick for 38 years if he would like to be made whole. Would you believe the man did not…

Saturday, 20 May 2023 04:18

The flaws of perfection - Warren Zanes

I was in the car with my sons, listening to the Beach Boys. I picked some of my favorite songs: “Wendy,” “Girl Don’t Tell Me,” “Let Him Run Wild.” But when I played another track I love, “Wild Honey,” the boys cocked their heads. “Why did they put that out?” one of them asked. The lead vocal sounded wrong to him. Fair enough. Something was off. Carl Wilson’s performance on that song is not a typical Beach Boys lead vocal. You can hear him reaching for notes, at times barely getting there. There’s vocal strain, unmistakable pitch imperfections. But the…

Friday, 19 May 2023 04:58

What should Tinubu do about the Assembly? - Azu Ishiekwene

Two presidents in the last 24 years provide interesting examples of how to relate with the National Assembly. And between the two, the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, can decide how to model his relationship with the 10th National Assembly. The first example is President Olusegun Obasanjo. He was not only head of the executive branch, he was leader of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the de facto head of its Board of Trustees. But it didn’t end there. Obasanjo was also, in a manner of speaking, head of the legislature. That may sound like a misnomer in…

Thursday, 18 May 2023 04:08

Seun Kuti should have listened to his father - Abimbola Adelakun

Fela Kuti’s 1976 album, Ikoyi Blindness, featured a track documenting an encounter within Nigerian social context where violence is trite. The song, Gba mi leti ki n dolowo (slap me make I get money), is an encounter between an “Oga,” the quintessential big man who personifies the impunity of power, and an unnamed person who represents the disempowered masses. In the song, Oga reaches out to slap the Unnamed’s face. Rather than quake before Oga’s almighty power, Unnamed stands up to him. He taunts Oga to hit him saying the “systems of government in Africa” would arise on his behalf…

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Wednesday, 17 May 2023 04:30

ChatGPT’s lessons for economic development - Ricardo Haussmann

Spoiler alert: I am not going to talk about how ChatGPT responds when prompted about economic-development strategies. It basically regurgitates reasonable, but mediocre ideas that it has seen in its training set. But ChatGPT’s design, which has given it far greater capabilities than its creators anticipated, offers a valuable lesson for tackling the complexities of economic development. For more than a decade, deep neural networks (DNNs) have outperformed all other artificial-intelligence technologies, driving significant advances in computer vision, speech recognition, and translation. The emergence of generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT continue this trend. To learn, AI algorithms require training, which…

Monday, 15 May 2023 03:58

Change must begin with the leader - Hassan Gimba

This writing was first published on 6 July 2020. With changes of leadership soon at the federal and state levels, I see it as relevant. The first part in particular. However, do we forget the lessons in the second part? The world is changed by your example not by your opinion – Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Lyricist and author of The Alchemist. Allah (SWT) said in the Qur’an that He does not change the condition of a people until they change what is in their hearts. It is a verse widely quoted out of context by people wanting to give their…

Sunday, 14 May 2023 03:30

Will north, the Shrew, bite the APC’s nose? - Festus Adedayo

The ongoing fight-to-finish for principal officers’ positions in the 10th National Assembly by the All Progressives Congress (APC) has only one fitting corollary: It is the famous mythic, destructive squabble between the Shrew, Squirrel and a seemingly impartial arbiter, the Tortoise. Unless carefully resolved, what appears to be a fancy of conquest by the APC, leading to the party magisterially pronouncing who would be its legislative Man Fridays, seems to have boomeranged full throttle at its teething stage. Only last week, the party’s National Working Committee, (NWC) in a peremptory, you-may-go-jump-inside-the-lagoon manner, announced its choice of former Minister of Niger…

Sunday, 14 May 2023 03:29

Finding the right partner for marital success - Taiwo Akinola

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her … She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life ~ Proverbs 31:10-12. Introduction: The family unit is the basic building block of the human society. When it flounders, every other thing follows that pattern. No wonder, the state of happiness that a group of people, a nation or even a Church community enjoys is determined by the degree of harmony in the individual homes that make it up. Many people today…

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