The waiting period of single adults for marriage, especially women, is not funny at all. It is a season of anxiety and desperation for many of them. The irony of life is that while those who are yet to marry pray, fast and do ‘packaging' to attract suitors, some of those in turbulent or unfulfilled marriages are willing to quit. Today, BECKY OLORUNPOMI, a certified marriage counsellor, an author, speaker and convener of the annual Singles' Summit in Lagos, writes on the anxious period of waiting which makes waiting women vulnerable. She enriches this contribution with experiences as a means…

Understanding the advantages and limitations of economists’ methods clarifies the value they can add to analysis of non-economic questions. Equally important, it underscores how economists’ approach can complement but never replace alternative, often qualitative methods used in other scholarly disciplines. Economists have never been shy about taking on the big questions that disciplines such as history, sociology, or political science consider their own province. What have been slavery’s long-run implications for contemporary American society? Why do some communities exhibit higher levels of social trust than others? What explains the rise of right-wing populism in recent years? In addressing these and…

Eric Weinstein America is falling behind when it comes to leadership, and it's pretty much directly correlated to how we value people with technical brains. They aren't given enough power, so much of the American way of the last 50 to 60 years or so has been marginalized by middle management types. The reason, Eric Weinstein argues, is that these types don't trust the smarter and more technical minded men and women. One example Weinstein gives is that university presidents 60 years ago might come from a physics or math background—now they're much more likely to be middle management types…

It is becoming increasingly clear that two options await this country: The discarding of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) or the eternal lowering of the green-white-green flag that replaced the Union Jack's at Independence on October 1, 1960. Some reports have it that Auwal Yadudu, legal adviser to the vile dictator, Sani Abacha, authored the 1999 Constitution, cashing in on the inclement political weather of the time to favour his own race, religion, and region to the chagrin of other Nigerian stakeholders. Since the authorities dither and procrastinate on the first option stated above,…