Dear Dorothy, My husband and I have been married for nearly ten years with two lovely children. Over the years I noted that my husband had an eye for beautiful women and I suspected that he cheated on me from time to time, yet I tried not to let this bother me or seriously affect our relationship. However, in recent months he has started to go out on weekends, giving one excuse after another. I suspect he is having an affair with someone special to him who is taking him away from me. This turn of event is making me…
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David Mba, De Montfort University Why are Nigeria’s universities in such a sorry state? Some would say it had to do with just one word: money. Sadly this is part of the reason. But not entirely. Nigeria’s universities have been under-funded for decades. Like a talented but under-achieving football team, fail to achieve goals because the country hasn’t invested enough in their structure, their facilities and their people. Higher education in Nigeria includes universities (federal, state and private) as well as polytechnics (skills-intensive and experiential learning programmes) and colleges of education. With over 160 universities, 128 polytechnics and 177 colleges…
Tolu Olarewaju, Staffordshire University One estimate is that 40% of Nigerian women are entrepreneurs. This fits into a pattern in sub-Saharan Africa which has the highest female entrepreneurship rate globally. While this is good news, there’s a need to distinguish between high and low value female entrepreneurship. High value implies higher incomes and innovative goods and services and low value the opposite. Entrepreneurs are also usually classified into necessity-driven and opportunity-driven types. Necessity-driven entrepreneurs are those who are pushed into starting businesses because they have no other source of income. Opportunity-motivated entrepreneurs are those who enter business ownership primarily to…
Kobus Maree, University of Pretoria The world of work is changing all the time. In the past, people would probably choose one career and stick to it for the rest of their lives, gradually climbing up the ladder with clearly demarcated and structured relationships. They might even remain at one company throughout their working lives. But today, people move between careers and jobs several times; they have to navigate many work-related transitions. The problem is that career counselling hasn’t, for the most part, adapted to these new realities. In the developing world, traditional career counselling approaches are still the order…
Today, the Crystal Ball™ brings to you, the outlook for the Nigerian oil and gas industry in the next four years. While the current reform in the Nigerian Oil & Gas Sector (PIGB et Al) appears to have stalled, this new tenure promises to bring renewed progress in the efforts to restructure the industry. In addition, President Muhammed Buhari’s administration has expressed its desires to withhold renewal of over 40 Oil Mining Leases that will be due this year. This will bring about competition and tenders by new players for these OMLs. It is expected that a larger percentage of these leases…
Carina Bruwer, University of Cape Town The world’s oceans are at the centre of transnational organised crimes committed by profit-driven networks operating across borders. The United Nations Security Council recently convened to discuss the threat this poses to international peace and security. While Somali piracy in the Western Indian Ocean focused the world’s attention on the oceans, numerous other transnational organised crimes are taking place across the globe. The Western Indian Ocean also serves as a highway for multiple ton shipments of heroin, Somali charcoal and illegal wildlife products. Piracy and armed robbery are also found off South East Asia,…
Bonny Ibhawoh, McMaster University As long as unresolved historic injustices continue to fester in the world, there will be a demand for truth commissions. Unfortunately, there is no end to the need. The goal of a truth commission — in some forms also called a truth and reconciliation commission, as it is in Canada — is to hold public hearings to establish the scale and impact of a past injustice, typically involving wide-scale human rights abuses, and make it part of the permanent, unassailable public record. Truth commissions also officially recognize victims and perpetrators in an effort to move beyond…
Nick Haslam, University of Melbourne; Melanie J. McGrath, University of Melbourne, and Melissa A. Wheeler, University of Melbourne Values such as care, compassion and safety are more important to us now than they were in the 1980s. The importance of respecting authority has fallen since the beginning of the 20th century, while judging right and wrong based on loyalty to country and family has steadily risen. Our analysis, using the Google Books database and published in Plos One, showed distinctive trends in our moral priorities between 1900 to 2007. How we should understand these changes in moral sensibility is a…
Barry Morton, Indiana University South Africans have for decades been hoodwinked by unscrupulous pastors. Recently a spate of incredible “miracles” by these self-styled, flashy miracle men offering healing and prosperity have again been in the headlines. The latest prominent one is a “resurrection” perpetrated by Pastor Alph Lukau of Alleluia Ministries International. In a widely circulated video, Lukau called on a “dead” man in a coffin to “rise up”. It was so farcical that the #ResurrectionChallenge, in which people are mocking it, has been trending on social media ever since. There have been other notable examples. Three years ago, Paseka…
Dawn is all yours my son to readjust your sail and achieve more than Columbus, It’s all yours, my son, to readjust your power and achieve more than caeser, It’s yours, my son, to learn the follies and mistakes of the greatest men. Where they failed and missed it, Where they rushed and missed it, What they feared that ruined them, Where they ruled and missed it, Where they searched that wrecked them, Who they rushed that drowned them, Dawn is all yours my son. Dawn is all yours to correct their follies, To correct what they couldn’t,…