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We all owe it a duty to arrest the march of banality and restore the reign of humanity. In a letter attributed to Mother Theresa of Calcutta, the timeless message begins on a note of forgiveness:...

While many students spent hours proving that the chair did not exist, the student, who in a class of over 200 got a distinction, did not spend up to a minute to submit his script....

As humans, language is the essence and quintessence of our existence. There is hardly anything we can do or achieve without the instrumentality of language, the most remarkable characteristic that sets our species apart from other…

Prof. Mahfouz A. Adedimeji The Third Industrial Revolution or Industry 3.0 marked the beginning of another era, which is otherwise known as Digital Revolution. Digital Revolution, a manifestation and result of the emergence of…

Prof. Mahfouz A. Adedimeji It was the Greek Philosopher of the 5th Century, Heraclitus, who once examined the concept of change and posited: everything flows and nothing stays. He further reflected and concluded that “you can’t step into…

Seven years ago, precisely on Thursday, December 5, 2013, the world was jolted by the news of a colossus who breathed his last. As expected, the entire world was in a frenzy not just mourning his death but also celebrating his life of…

But if we consider the original list of Gandhi’s blunders, we appreciate the necessity of finding our global compass and redirecting our lives to the path of rectitude...

In our today’s world, time travels at a dizzying speed. The mantra on many lips is that “there is no time”. Hardly does a day begin before we realize it has ended. In fact, the year 2020 started just like yesterday but now..

In his congratulatory message to the United States President-Elect, Joe Biden, and Vice President-Elect, Kamala Harris, on November 7, 2020, former President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria struck a chord in millions of people across the…

Meanwhile, there had been a surge in Islamaphobic rhetoric in France starting with the publication of the offensive cartoons, originally published by the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, by Chalie Hebdo, a rhetorical magazine, on February…

The most populous African country with over 200 million people, Nigeria witnessed unusual moments of madness last week. The tragedy of those moments shows that peace is fragile and all hands must be on deck to carefully keep, build,…

That one loves everybody does not really mean that they deserve the love but one deserves the peace that comes with emptying one’s mind of garbage. There is reward in applying ahimsa as the person who does so has peace of mind which is more…

In a letter attributed to Albert Einstein, which was supposedly addressed to his daughter, Lieserl, the physicist noted that when he proposed the theory of relativity, very few people understood him and what he would reveal would collide…

The truth is that we are not only homo sapiens (human being) but are also homo religiousus (religious being), the latter being a phrase coined by Sociologist Mircea Eliade. According to Eliade, the “homo religiousus always believes that…

Everywhere around us, people are busy talking on air, ‘in print’ and online so much that one often wonders if anyone is listening. It is a global disease that we talk too much and there is hardly anything great we can show for it than…

It is Gaur Gopal Prabhu who talked about the needlessness of worry. I found that submission compelling for everyone’s peace of mind. “Do you have a problem in life?” If no, which is seldom the answer, there is no cause for worry....

...Though the world is no longer at the panic mode it was in February and March with the gradual relaxation of systemic lockdowns, the reality of today is that the pandemic has brought out a new normal in virtually all sectors....