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Putting off the crunch meeting of the ministerial World Trade Organization won’t defer the chronic malfunctions of the world economy. The currency and debt crises experienced by developing nations, the eurozone’s turn to austerity and the great financial crash are symptoms of a broken trading system built on the global role of the dollar. Deeply embedded within the world’s trade and capital regime is a hierarchy where cheap labour goods from developing nations keep rich world wages down. Meanwhile, elites in the developing world run their nations in order to be able to consume in the manner of the developed…
It is heartwarming to read through the 2021 Report of the United Nations Secretary General titled “Our Common Agenda,” and to see his assertion that the world is at the inflection point. According to him, “[i]n our biggest shared test since the Second World War, humanity faces a stark and urgent choice: a breakdown or a breakthrough.” A breakdown or a breakthrough has a great impact on the future of the world. This is the honest opinion of an honest individual and I share this opinion having researched for sometime how to create a new world order rooted in equity…
The vastness of Eurasia is becoming bracketed by belligerence. On the western front, Russia has deployed a growing number of military units to the regions near its border with Ukraine, inviting a flurry of speculation about its motives. And in the east, China’s behavior vis-à-vis Taiwan has grown increasingly worrisome. A widely reported war-game study by a US think tank concludes that the United States would have “few credible options” were China to launch a sustained attack against the island. In both cases, the aggressor’s strategic intent is clear. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s government has made a point of calling…
Sunday, 28 November 2021 06:23

Madam, are these yours? - Tatalo Alamu

Despite the fact that the federal authorities appear to have eaten the humble pie and have taken back their word on the ownership of the diamond-studded braziers, the public and an increasingly vocal bar were in no mood to let the matter pass just like that. It was a case of “trouble dey sleep and yanga go wake am” as the illustrious Abami Eda himself would put things. A new organization with headquarters in the highbrow suburb of Victoria Island calling itself the International Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Politically Exposed Women (ISOPCPEW} has vowed to drag the…
Great Ife! Great Ife! Africa’s most beautiful campus! Conscious, vigilant, progressive! Aluta against all oppression! Forward ever, backward never! For learning and culture, sports and struggle! Great Ife! I love you! There’s only one Great Ife in the universe! Another Great Ife is a counterfeit Great! Great! Great! Great! Great! On Saturday, December, 2021, all roads lead to the Marriott Hotel, 122 Joel Ogunnaike Street, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos where the authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University (formerly the University of Ife), Ile-Ife will be conferring “Distinguished Great Ife Alumni Award” on 60 distinguished alumni of the institution. According to the…
Last week, as Minister of Information and Orientation, Lai Mohammed, was engrossed in his theatrics on television over the Lagos #EndSARS panel report; I was wrapped in sobriety as I listened to Manchester-based UK pop group of artists called the Hollies. Renowned for being one of Britain’s leading musical groups of the 1960s and into the mid 1970s, especially with their unique and distinctive blend of a three-part vocal harmony style, Hollies’ renown got catapulted to the zenith through their highly evocative song entitled He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother. The song was composed by Bobby Scott and Bob Russell.…
Sunday, 28 November 2021 06:18

Singing a new song - Taiwo Akinola

I will give her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth ~ Hosea 2:15. Introduction: This year is rapidly advancing to a close, with the prospect of greater opportunities ahead. No doubt, it has offered diverse experiences to different people in very many distinct circumstances. Whatever the case, God is saying that our springs of joy and gladness are not gone forever. Please be informed that it is quite normal that certain experiences in the journeys of destiny show up with remarkable…
What shall we do that we might be good Christians? Just believe in Jesus Christ, He will make us good. But He will do this in His own time because our times are in His hand. (Psalm 31:15). “(God) has made everything beautiful in its time.” (Ecclesiastes 3:11). “In (God’s) presence is fullness of joy; at (His) right hand are pleasures forevermore.” (Psalm 16:11). However, our sins separate us from God. (Isaiah 59:2). They prevent us from having a relationship with Him. Sin is not just wrong-doing, it is wrong-being. It makes us like Satan and not like God. Accordingly,…
Perilous time is here! One of the cheapest commodities in Nigeria these days is death. It is so cheap that human life has lost its sacred value. Hardly there is any day in the last 10 years without bloodshed. Apart from natural disasters like flooding, inferno, road accidents and sickness-induced deaths, insurgency, banditry and kidnapping have become major sources of premature deaths. Like leaderless society, security of life has become elusive and Nigerians have resorted to seeking divine and hired security services. Death is inevitable but how it comes is a matter of concern than when it happens. The way…
Thursday, 25 November 2021 05:45

The revenge of supply - John H. Cochrane

Policymakers should not have been caught off guard by surging prices and shortages of goods and labor. Practically the entire post-pandemic agenda is built around policies that stoke demand and discourage work, making supply-side constraints entirely predictable. Surging inflation, skyrocketing energy prices, production bottlenecks, shortages, plumbers who won’t return your calls – economic orthodoxy has just run smack into a wall of reality called “supply.” Demand matters too, of course. If people wanted to buy half as much as they do, today’s bottlenecks and shortages would not be happening. But the US Federal Reserve and Treasury have printed trillions of…
June 13, 2025

Oil soars more than 9% after Israel strikes Iran

Oil prices surged more than 9% on Friday, hitting their highest in almost five months…
June 14, 2025

Tinubu's pardon of 'Ogoni Nine' rejected by Ogoni people

Ogoni activists on Friday rejected a posthumous pardon for nine members executed three decades ago…
June 12, 2025

Self-made millionaire shares the hardest money conversation he had with his wife: ‘I’m sweating thinking about it’

Self-made millionaire, author and TV host Ramit Sethi knows a thing or two about money.…
June 14, 2025

Traditional healer treats the sick with snake bites

Rosalio Culit, also known as Datu Kamandag among his fellow Manobo tribe members in Surigao…
June 15, 2025

Over 100 feared dead as gunmen attack Benue communities in night of horror

At least 100 people have been killed in a brutal overnight attack on Yelewata, a…
June 15, 2025

Israel and Iran strike at each other in new wave of attacks

Israel and Iran launched fresh attacks on each other overnight into Sunday, stoking fears of…
June 13, 2025

Your favorite alcoholic beverage linked to deadly form of cancer, study finds

Nicole Saphier joins 'America's Newsroom' to discuss the surgeon general pushing for cancer warning labels…
May 13, 2025

Nigeria's Flying Eagles qualify for World Cup after dramatic win over Senegal

Nigeria's U-20 national football team, the Flying Eagles, have secured their place at the 2025…

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