Society

In your journey to success, always avoid shortcuts if you want to reach your destination on time. In the journey of life, shortcuts might look faster but are always dangerous. The story of shortcuts hardly ends well. They may appear to save costs, but at the end, they are always very expensive. Since shortcuts lack […]

The Asians who placed oranges beside the grave of a beloved one, the Africans who cooked delicious food, or the Europeans who placed flowers on the grave of their loved ones are all doing the same thing with the materials they are at home with. “Nku di na mba na-eghere mba nri”. A non-African might

This is Riya Karumanchi, the Canadian high school student who designed the smartCANE, “a device with advanced sensing technology to help the blind better navigate.” At the age of 16 she has already developed this. Actually, the white cane—that simple tool that helps the blind identify obstacles—was invented by James Biggs in 1921. Until 2018

“It is said that a dispassionate young man approached the Greek philosopher and casually said, “O great Socrates, I come to you for knowledge.” The philosopher took the young man down to the sea, waded in with him, and then dunked him under the water for thirty seconds. When he let the young man up

One thing we cannot take away from Christian mission in Africa, especially in Nigeria, is the alternative education system and also alternative to health care management that came with it. Sadly, these achievements have been blurred by the fact they diabolized and demonized our culture and tradition in the process. If the missionaries had introduced

By Rev Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu (written on 26.10.2020) 1) My dear gallant fallen youths; you went out to peacefully march on the streets in order to sooth the scars of your wounded Nation. Carrying nothing in your hands but placards and the flag of the Nation you loved so much. You carried out the

Did the animal painted by so many religious stories actually exist at any time? The answer is No. It was just a mere imagination of the authors that connoted various things. “The first dragon myths appear with the Sumerian legends of the god-mother Tiamat who transforms herself into a legged, horned serpent, and of the

Around 5 centuries before Christ, the Europeans you know today had exactly the same religious mentality we have in many regions of Africa today. They once believed that our day-to-day actions and events are determined by some spiritual forces up there. When it rained, they believed that it was Zeus, the god of rain who

This is Plutus, the Greek god of wealth, prosperity, abundance, and agriculture. His name is derived from the Greek etymology “ploutos,” which means “wealth.” Thousands of years ago, many Greeks believed that calling upon Plutus can open the doors of wealth for someone. Today, they classify all those beliefs as mythology, which means nothing but