Niyi Olarewaju

First and foremost, my prayers and sympathy go to the family of the people both young and old who had lost their lives so far in the latest rounds of hostilities in Gaza. I share in their pains and grieves, but again let's come to the reality, deaths like these had and will always be the reality of war. In a war situation, soldiers are always the currency, and humans an d property are the objects of trade subjected to (wilful) destruction. At best we can say, we are better-off without wars and conflicts of such magnitude, but is that absolute state of peace possible in the world? Conflicts and wars have been a part of the human history and it's been dated as far back as the early existence of man. This does not mean, we can not reduce such conflicts to the barest minimum. Hence, all hands must be on deck to ensure peace thrives in the world. I am not attempting to justify Israel's latest offensive and strikes on Gaza, but i must confess i am enormously appalled and disg...

  I hope we are quickly coming to terms with the reality that the East-West ideological disparity will continue to grow rapidly, with greater and more precarious consequences to the World. The West handling of Russia with respect to the latter's role in Ukraine and the economic sanctions which the West continues to slam on Russia are now driving a new type of deviance from Russia and it's allies in the East, and at the end of this ideological conflict, i foresee the creation of two economic worlds, and a radically reduced inter-dependency between the West and the East and vice-versa.   A good behavioural characteristic of humans is, when we are exposed to some challenges, we innately tend to rise up to confront these challenges and proffer solutions to whatever effect they have on us. This perfectly defines Russia's response to the cold economic war it has been fighting with the West since the annexation of Crimea and further outbreak of violence in eastern Ukraine....