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If race-based admission violates the American constitution, so also is LEGACY admission that favors the majority of Caucasians. Almost half of admitted students to Columbia University (an IVY league school) are legacy admission (meaning, someone in their lineage had attended the school - father, mother, aunt, uncle, grandfather, etc....). What is good for the GOOSE is good for the GANDER......otherwise, the decision yesterday by the US Supreme Court comes short of being racist. It is going to perpetuate exactly what they claim they want to stem out....They are creating space for "white kids" whose generation has dominated admission to top schools in America and preclude those who the system has deliberately deprived of opportunities for centuries from enjoying the benefits of going to the same top schools or going to school at all. Perhaps, the SCOTUS should also abolish Minority Serving Institutions on the same premise they scrapped Affirmative Action - America in 2023 is CO...

One way to quickly gauge the "empathy quotient" of a government is by its policies. Irrational removal of subsidy, the purported plan to increase electricity tariffs, and proposing student loans to students who have less than 10% chance of gainful employment after school is nothing but cluelessness..... You need to think before you suggest or implement life-changing policies... Tinubu and his appointees will receive a 114% increase in salary and benefits while ordinary Nigerians are paying over 156% more for a liter of petrol. They said it is FAKE news after testing the waters of public reaction, and it was too hot to handle. There is no fire if there is no smoke... Politicians in Nigeria have perfected the art of impunity because many times, they get away with doing stupid and crazy stuff that doesn't make sense and won't be tried where the power to elect and unelect resides with the people. A government just hikes the price of petroleum products, one of the most e...

Majority of Nigerians agreed that fuel subsidy is a fraud forced on us by wicked Nigerians who destroyed four refineries and then began to siphon billions of dollars annually in the name of petroleum products importation. (What we did with cash crops, pre-petroleum discovery, we have resulted in the same. How will the rest of the world not think we are idiots?) Many did not import one gallon of anything but they have become billionaires from subsidies. All leading presidential candidates in the last election agreed we must rid ourselves of this 'agbana' (blood-sucking idols), but how do you do it in a way that will not further compound the suffering of already beating down Nigerians who were barely scraping by under the last president? Here comes the new man, on day one, he removed subsidy without a plan, without consulting the stakeholders, without addressing the people on his strategy on how the monumental effect of subsidy removal will be cushioned. He acted with impunity an...