“Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the Lord showed him the whole land—from Gilead to Dan, all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the…
“On the whole, China depends more on domestic investment and consumption than on exports to generate its growth.” –Cambridge Dictionary The word Foreign Investment has dominated the economic space dialogue for a long time. It has been packaged in such…
BEING A PAPER PRESENTED AT THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY LECTURE OF ADELEKE UNIVERSITY, EDE, NIGERIA ON TUESDAY MARCH 09, 2021 BY DR. ALEX OTTI, OFR. The ability to extract maximum value from resources while creating minimum waste is a profitable skill to have.”― Hendrith Vanlon Smith…
Chinua Achebe was arguably the greatest writer of our time. His works remain evergreen and have been translated into numerous languages across the world. One of his titles that I can never get tired of reading is ‘Things Fall Apart’,…
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time” – T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) There is this popular Lagos saying that people…
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it”– George Santayana, Spanish Philosopher, 1863 – 1952 Emmanuel was my father’s younger brother. He was tall, lanky and handsome with a lot of courage. My father used to…
“Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.” – Thomas Sowell We live in a dynamic world where numerous ideas are constantly being introduced by…
“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” Steven Biko (1946-1977) Steven Biko was a revolutionary whose anti-apartheid struggles helped to abolish the despicable regime. As a student, he was so brilliant that on some…
“Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. … The means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favourable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an…
“The phrase “consumer society” complements the description of the present social order as an “industrial society.” Needs are tailored by the mass media to create a public demand for utterly useless commodities, each carefully engineered to deteriorate after a predetermined…