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Monday, 14 February 2022 12:43

Techno-optimism and the rule-of-threes: Why the world will soon enter an era of mass flourishing

Mark Mills Historically, periods of mass flourishing are underpinned by technological revolutions. Currently, we are undergoing a technological revolution unlike anything the world has ever seen. KEY TAKEAWAYSMaturing technologies in the realms of information, machines, and materials are paving the way toward an explosion in human progress and productivity. In this excerpt from the book The Cloud Revolution, Mark Mills describes how "overnight success" stories like the iPhone are actually built upon previous technologies, which themselves often took decades to develop. Ultimately, technological revolutions of the kind we are now experiencing bring greater per capita wealth, improved health and well-being,…

Monday, 14 February 2022 06:09

Ekiti: APC, PDP primaries of controversies (2) - Bola Bolawole

On June 1, 2018, there was pandemonium (“b’oolo, yaa’mi) at the All Progressives Congress (APC) rally in Ado-Ekiti as a chieftain of the party, Opeyemi Bamidele, was accidentally shot by a policeman at a rally organised by the APC; the rally was to welcome Kayode Fayemi, its governorship candidate in the July 14, 2018 Ekiti State governorship election, to the state after his resignation from the Federal Executive Council where he had been the Minister of Mines and Steel Development. The shooting took place at the APC secretariat in Ajilosun, Ado-Ekiti. Opeyemi was a sitting member of the House of…

Monday, 14 February 2022 05:58

The West must accept reality in Ukraine - Nancy Qian

The buildup of Russian forces near Ukraine’s border has led to fears of a new war. But the conflict is hardly new, and nor are Russia’s objectives. Ukraine, which has been indirectly controlled or directly repressed by Moscow-based governments for centuries, wants NATO to protect it from future Russian incursions, like the one the Kremlin launched in 2014. But Russian President Vladimir Putin is demandingthat NATO promise not to expand into any more Eastern European countries that border Russia (which already shares a border with five NATO members). NATO, led by the United States, is refusing Putin’s demand on the…

Sunday, 13 February 2022 06:23

Sofiat’s murder and our booming human body parts market - Festus Adedayo

With the shock, anger and general revulsion that followed the gruesome killing of 20-year-old Sofiat Kehinde, allegedly perpetrated by her boyfriend and three of his accomplices in Oke-Aregba, Itoko-Tuntun, Idi-Ape in Abeokuta, Ogun State on January 29, 2022, an end ought to have naturally come to our naivety about the pestilence that ritual killings for money has become among us. Or oughtn’t it? Only yesterday, in same Abeokuta, in an area called Leme, 43 year-old Kehinde Oladimeji and his wife, Adejumoke Raji, were arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for being in possession of fresh human breasts,…

Sunday, 13 February 2022 06:21

Fresh anointing for fresh glory - Taiwo Akinola

But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil ~ Psalm 92:10. Introduction: Yesterday’s win won’t qualify you for today’s trophy, and yesterday’s anointing won’t be sufficient in the face of today’s challenges. We all need fresh anointing for every new day, if we are to enjoy the freshness of God’s glory. God’s age-long desire and primordial passion is to fill the earth with His power, glory, splendor, beauty, excellency, life and love (Numbers 14:21; Habakkuk 2:14). This divine desire is realizable only through the children of God. Hence, the…

Sunday, 13 February 2022 06:20

Article of faith: The blessing of forgiveness - Femi Aribisala

God made a promise to Abraham: “I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing.” (Genesis 12:2). What exactly was the blessing the Lord promised Abraham? Was it that he would be rich in cattle and in lands and houses? If that was God’s intention, what would happen to the lands and houses after Abraham died? Abraham would have to relinquish them so they would stop being blessings to him. What difference would it make if God made Abraham’s name great after he died if Abraham does…

Friday, 11 February 2022 06:22

Mountain facing Yahaya Bello - Azu Ishiekwene

Even though the All Progressives Congress (APC) has repeatedly denied zoning the position of chairman to the Northcentral, there’s hardly any credible analysis which does not feature candidates from the zone in the first three spots. Days to the party’s first national convention in four years, there is growing public interest in the outcome of the convention, because how it ends may not only indicate if the party is over, it might also provide an indication of who the party’s flag bearer would be for next year’s presidential election. The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been a bit more…

Friday, 11 February 2022 06:20

“Warn Yahoo boys, ‘bad girls' are coming!” - Michael West

Danger is looming! We are still praying and strategizing how to peacefully navigate the cloudy political atmosphere between now and next year but the onslaughts of Yahoo ritualists is swelling the rank of predators like Boko Haram, killer herdsmen, kidnappers, bandits and armed robbers. Yahoo ritualists are more dangerous because they live among us. They are well known. They are encouraged by the corrupt and socially disoriented society. They're role models to some indigent, jobless and misdirected youths who crave for nothing but riches by any means humanly possible or forcefully attainable. The dimension that Yahoo scammers and ritualists are…

Thursday, 10 February 2022 06:31

Nigeria needs a new kind of politics - Financial Times Editorial

There is more than a year to go until Nigeria’s presidential and legislative elections, not that you would know it by the election frenzy already gripping the west African nation of 200 million people. Potential candidates from the two main parties are jostling to succeed Muhammadu Buhari as president of Africa’s biggest economy. For those disenchanted with the past seven uninspiring years, a transition cannot come soon enough. Who wins is a matter for Nigerians only. The outcome, however, should be of interest to everyone. Nigeria’s population is set to double over the next 30 years to 400mn, by which…

Thursday, 10 February 2022 06:17

ASUU: Time to think out of the box - Bola Bolawole

Writing here last week on the report that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) chapter was mooting the idea of another strike action over its disagreement with the OAU Management on the sharing formula adopted in respect of the earned academic allowance released by the Federal Government, I expressed my worry and disappointment this way: Another strike at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)? No matter how justified, this is one strike too many”. I had then promised to say more on the matter today. Again, writing in…

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Tuesday, 08 February 2022 05:58

CNN's collapse is now complete - Joe Concha

It all began 42 years ago — Ted Turner's creation of a 24/7 news network that would exist on something called cable TV. Few believed it could succeed. And, for its first decade, CNN largely chugged along but wasn't seen as a game-changer or a true competitor to big broadcast news entities based in New York in the form of CBS, NBC and ABC. That all changed when war broke out between the United States and Iraq in 1991. On the night war exploded over Baghdad, CNN was the only news organization that was able to broadcast from the city…

Monday, 07 February 2022 06:00

Cowardly Nnamdi Kanu and the rise of Yahooism - Hassan Gimba

I once had cause to quote Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s 1980 hit song, “Authority Stealing”, where the Afrobeat maestro sang “You be thief” while the chorus chanted “I no be thief”, “You be rogue”, “I no be rogue”, etc, The song readily comes to mind because Nnamdi Kanu denied being an Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) member. Like Judas Iscariot, who gave Jesus Christ “the kiss of death” and betrayed him, two weeks ago in the court, Nnamdi Kanu, who Igbo separatists see as their infallible and courageous leader, denied them vehemently. The “lion” of Isiama Afara, who calls on his…

Sunday, 06 February 2022 06:12

Ekiti: APC, PDP primaries of controversies (1) - Bola Bolawole

The All progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship party primaries have come and gone but the reverberations may not abate any time soon. Call them primaries of controversies and you will be right. Neither of the two leading political parties can lay claim to the bragging rights over the conduct and outcome of their primaries. And this is a shame! Credible elections are not just about casting and counting of votes and declaring the results on Election Day, the process actually begins with the delineation of constituencies, where the election umpire can apply what is called…

Sunday, 06 February 2022 06:11

Atiku Abubakar and the sexual history of the Nigerian presidency - Festus Adedayo

In early 2014, the Zimbabwean public sphere literally caught fire. Rumours that the country’s former Prime Minister and the presidential candidate of the Movement for Democratic Change, (MDC) Morgan Tsvangirai, had suffered “a nasty blow from below,” euphemism for zero virility, spread like bushfire. At about the same time, the virility-restoring prowess of Emmanuel Makandiwa, a ‘miracle-working’ Pentecostal prophet, froze the stratosphere like snowflakes in winter. Estranged wife of Tsvangirai, Elizabeth Macheka, had lit the fire. In an interview she granted The Herald, which was entitled, Why I ditched Tsvangirai: WifeMacheka had been quoted to have said that she had…

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