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Ifeanyi Uddin

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Bolshevik | Fond of the price mechanism | Critical of the living | I also speak ill of the dead | Leader Writer/Columnist @PremiumTimesng.

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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 12d

Bí omodé ó bá te, àgbà kìí ní iyì.

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 2m

Let's be clear, the exercise of the presidential pardon by a Nigerian government was always going to be fraught.

The Tinubu administration's list of pardoned felons is, alas, an extremely poor commentary on the country's ranking of its law-and-order priorities.

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 8m

A major goal of any reforming Nigerian government would be ending our culture of impunity.

Juvenal's time-worn question ("Who will watch the watchmen?") is the most immediate obstacle to the achievement of this goal.

Time is the only thing the country has on its side in this regard.

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 33m

"Across the world strongmen are gaining in power and prominence. The African experience offers a warning. However promising charismatic leaders may look at the start, big men eventually lead to big trouble." | The Economist

Africa’s leaders-for-life offer a warning to the world

The longer autocrats stay in power, the worse they become

www.economist.com

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 47m

Our understanding of culture and tradition is too conservative.

Most of what we take very seriously are archival material - fit for museums and art exhibits.

Culture must include embrace of new things, especially when the utility of these is beyond question.

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 2h

What to make of the populist nationalist challenge to democracy, By Uddin Ifeanyi

The global response to Israel’s two-year war against fighters of The Islamic Resistance Movement (better known by its Arabic acronym, Hamas) in Gaza, underscores an old, and in today’s much changed ci...

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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 3h

One of the finest prescriptions for social entropy that I've come across is the Yorùbá invitation:

"To conduct ourselves as our forebears did, in order that our outcomes will be both familiar and acceptable to them".

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 3h

CAPSAT's pivot away from the government in Madagascar marks the beginning of the end of Andry Rajoelina's tenure as the country's president.

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 4h

From The Economist's Espresso.

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 1d

"One study attributes 30-50% of American productivity gains between 1990 and 2010 to skilled migrants. When it shuts the door to mobile talent, America is giving up one of the main ingredients of its success." | The Economist

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 1d

"The president wants to turn America into a fortress that keeps out foreign incursions. In fact, he is cutting America off from the very goods and talent that helped make its economy the envy of the world." | The Economist

Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America

The pain from trade and immigration restrictions cannot be postponed forever

www.economist.com

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 1d

"Certainly anti-Zionism can inspire antisemitic acts, but it is possible to criticise Israel without hating Jews." | The Economist

What people talk about when they talk about antisemitism

Its meaning has changed markedly over the past 150 years

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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 1d

"Nightingales are put in cages
because their songs give pleasure.
Whoever heard of keeping a crow?" | Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 1d

May our dead bodies not be exhumed from a more foolish man's back yard.

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 1d

It will never make sense.

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 1d

Amen.

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 1d

Why do you want to control?

Why do you want assurances that your effort today will be blessed with large take up tomorrow?

Is it not enough to believe, and then, act?

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 1d

If, as you suggest (and I'm inclined to agree with you), we don't have research workers in these fields, then my original question as to what they are doing is moot.

As to sensitising our people to how we are linked to our environment, that's a long-term, thankless task.

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 1d

This takes the problem way back.

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 1d

"On April 2nd President Donald Trump unveiled his 'Liberation Day' tariffs, holding a board covered in figures showing just how unfairly the world treated America. The numbers were nonsense..." | The Economist

Why Donald Trump’s tariffs are failing to break global trade

Six months on from “Liberation Day”, things look surprisingly rosy

www.economist.com

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 1d

In response to global warming, The Economist reports that "Chinese researchers mapped where tea plants can thrive today, and where they will be able to in the 2050s and in the 2090s".

What are Nigerian researchers doing about our staples?

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 1d

Just learnt that the "Lion Man's" daughter called on Cameroonians to vote for anyone but her father in today's elections.

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 1d

What was Gianluigi Donnarumma thinking?

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 1d

Americans ought to see that the only way the Republican's current weaponisation of the state against opposing views makes sense is through a descent to totalitarian rule.

Otherwise, any change of government will have them at the receiving end of their prescriptions.

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 1d

Mateo Retegui's spotkick was all show and no substance.

Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 1d

Time was when Sinisärgid would have thought twice about going full tilt at Gli Azzurri.