“RELIGION IN MY FATHER LAND”

Credit: wikimedia.org

My thought on the issue of religion might be lame, but really, it’s my thought right? And I am entitled to my opinion. Religion in this country is so annoying and dwindling, if we look at the way it is being practiced (It is seems perfect in the way it is being preached)...Muslim think their religion leads to God, Christians think their religion leads to God while ATR (African Traditional Religion) think theirs also lead to the Supreme being(God). Really, no harm in these thoughts, but the misdeed is seeing your religion as the ultimate and only religion that channel one to God. If others don't receive answers when they pray to God, I bet they would have quit sticking to that religion; be it Christian or Muslim.

Jesus Christ said the ultimate thing is to love God more than you love yourself, while

Tired and Sick

Woke up from the bed, “I must have to prepare for work” I thought to myself…

Jeez, it is just 10:45pm, when did I sleep? I remember shaking with fever after eating noodles and boiled egg at about 7:00pm. Then immediately I went to sleep, thinking that will help me to feel better.

I slept back at 11:00pm and woke up again at 12:30AM, this time, I was scared to wake up, for I thought I was waking up at 3:00am (my odd hour of waking up every day)…

This feeling I must confess, I don’t want…can I just be well and strong again…?

A REVIEW; LINUS A. HOSKINS, “EUROCENTRISM VS AFROCENTRISM: A GEOPOLITICAL LINKAGE ANALYSIS”

JOURNAL OF BLACK STUDIES, VOL., 23, NO., 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: THE IMAGE OF AFRICA IN GERMAN SOCIETY (DEC., 1992), PP. 247-257

MATRIC NO: 150401

In this paper, the history of Euro-centrism is first looked at and it was traced back to the 15^th century, hence, according to the author, Eurocentric mentality or mind-set have characterized, fashioned and conditioned the European attitude or mind-set towards African peoples. However, the task of Euro-centrism or its scholars can be argued to be based in justifying the advent of Europeans in Africa or better put, Eurocentric arguments can basically be said to justify colonialism and imperialism. It is the case that the mind-set of these European people is championed or displayed through Euro-centrism and have attempted to alienate and cast into flames the history and humanity of Africans, thus, this is evident in the derogatory remarks some European scholars send to Africans and her race. One index why there are attacks and derogatory remarks to the people of Africa might be because of

#EBOLA: "This is a serious disease, we can’t just cut ourselves off from West Africa," Obama said

Photo Credit: http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2014-10-12-obama.jpg

President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Americans to remain calm about the Ebola virus that has thus far been diagnosed in three people in the United States and killed one, emphasizing that cautious practices on the part of health authorities as well as aid for the West African countries hardest hit by the disease are the best approaches to preventing it from spreading.

 “What we’re seeing now is not an ‘outbreak’ or an ‘epidemic’ of Ebola in America,” Obama said in his weekly video address. “This is a serious disease, but we can’t give in to hysteria or fear.”

“We have to keep this in perspective,” Obama continued. “Every year, thousands of Americans die from the flu.” The President also pointed out that five people who contracted Ebola in West Africa had been brought back to the U.S. and treated successfully without infecting others.

The Ebola outbreak has so far killed 4,500 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan, who was

PATERNALISM AND ITS IMPLICATION IN MEDICAL ETHICS

INTRODUCTION

The field called applied ethics has so many sub branches under it, for instance, under applied ethics we have the field called business ethics, medical ethics, legal ethics, journalistic ethics among many others. However, various branches of applied ethics or better still various profession have their own language and axioms guiding them. Consequently, this leads us to the term or concept known as paternalism. Paternalism is one that arises in many different areas of our personal and public life. As such, it is an important realm of applied ethics. But it also raises certain theoretical issues. Perhaps the most important is: what powers it is legitimate for a state, operating both coercively and in terms of incentives, to possess. It also raises questions about the proper ways in which individuals, either in an institutional or purely personal setting, should relate to one another. How should we think about individual autonomy and its limits? What is it to respect the personhood of others? What is the trade-off, if any, between regard for the welfare of another and respect for their right to make their own decisions?

AFRICAN EPISTEMOLOGY AND THE QUEST FOR DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA

This long essay was written by me as a graduating student from the department of philosophy in the University of Ibadan, year 2014.

INTRODUCTION

It is a truism that issues of development have preoccupied African scholars for many years; both scholars in the sciences and the humanities are presumed to be concerned with achieving for Africa development. In fact, there are those scholars who suppose that a cardinal goal of the African philosopher cum scholar is to fashion a developmental approach which would extensively respond to challenges of social transformation engulfing Africa. Scholars, like Olusegun Oladipo, defended the assumption that until African scholars cum philosophers begin to realize that their reflections as Africans should bother essentially on the plethora of challenges or developmental issues facing Africa, they may not be able to fashion a web of relevance for their philosophical explorations.¹

INTERESTING ENTERTAINMENT NEWS THAT INTERESTED ME THIS WEEK… #Roluseye

OOPS!!! NAOMI CAMPBELL CALLS MALALA “MALARIA” AND CONGRATULATES HER ON “NOBLE” PRIZE ON TWITTER

 

Campbell

Malala

Twitter Capture

Oh gosh!!! Miss Campbell has now become infamous for her terrible spelling skills. She caused quite a stir over the weekend when she misspelled Pakistani child education activist’s name, Malala Yousafzai when congratulating her for winning the Nobel peace prize. As well-wishers were all over the social network sending out their good-will messages to Malala for her great work and recognition from the most noble and prestigious world organization, the Noble Foundation; they also sent lashes and insult to one of the great American Model Naomi Campbell for her bad spelling manners.

Spelling Malala “Malaria” and Nobel “Noble,” is what to you….? Gross or pardonable?

Follow Richard Oluseye on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn: @Roluseye

INTERESTING ENTERTAINMENT NEWS THAT INTERESTED ME THIS WEEK…#Roluseye

Samklef and Wizkid Heat!

Wizkid

Samklef

For some time now, Samklef and Wizkid both popular music arts in Nigeria and arguably big act in Africa haven’t seem to be on same page. As Samklef is reported saying Wizkid refused to work with him again, he (Wizkid) is also going about dissing his (Samklef) talent. Below is an excerpt from Samklef who was once a close pal and producer to the young talented StarBoy CEO, Wizkid.

"I'm not happy with Wizkid. I like his music, but I don't like him as a person anymore. The reason I don't like him anymore is, why do you go about spoiling other people's business? I never spoiled your business, never came out to say anything bad about you for four years. So why would you go to an OAP and tell the OAP that the reason why you no longer work with me is because my beat is amateur. What does that mean? Those amateur beats was what brought you to limelight, was what made you meet the same Akon who first dropped 'Don't Dull' on your voice." – Samklef opines.

What do you think about this heat guys…? Because i personally think Nigerian musicians need to put their "sh*t" together...and move the industry further from where it is...

Follow Richard Oluseye on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn: @Roluseye

#ROLUSEYE #ROLUSEYE #ROLUSEYE

Picture taking by Tizzy Photos (Glitz Photographer)

Richard Oluseye is a young Nigerian entrepreneur, born on the 15^th of March, 1989. A graduate of the University of Ibadan, Department of Philosophy; he resides in Lagos, Nigeria. He is the publisher of #GlitzPlusMagazine (@Glitzplusmag) and the Managing Director of #GlitzPlusEntertainment (@Glitzplusent). He is currently serving in Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin for his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).

Richard Oluseye is an advocator for the implementation of The Millennium Developmental Goals (MDGs) in developing countries, especially in Nigeria. He is a blogger who likes to write on salient issues affecting not only his immediate society, but that that bothers around humanity (Politics, Entertainment, Socials et al.). He is also involved in rendering PR services and consultation on event. He has rendered PR services to the following brands; DATHREAT ENT. FUSE INC. among many others. Richard Oluseye is analytical in thinking and acting. He is vast at deduction and critical thinking (does that make him a genius? I would say Yes!)

Richard Oluseye has created a brand name for himself, popularly known as #Roluseye. Richard Oluseye is a philanthropist in the making and a prospective book writer and publisher.

His social network includes the following:

Google+, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn: @Roluseye

Email: richard4real55@gmail.com

#TWITTER IS TAKING THE UNITED STATES TO COURT FOR FIGHT FOR #TRANSPARENCY POLICY

Photo Credit: blog.twitter.com

As part of Twitter’s latest transparency report released in July, the company described how they were being prohibited from reporting on the actual scope of surveillance of Twitter users by the U.S. government. However, according to the board of the company, they claim that their ability to speak has been restricted by laws that prohibit and even criminalize a service provider like Twitter from disclosing the exact number of national security letters (“NSLs”) and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”) court orders received — even if that number is zero.

Thus, the company reported recently that it is their belief that they are entitled under the First Amendment to respond to the company’s users’ concerns and to the statements of U.S. government officials by providing information about the scope of U.S. government surveillance – including what types of legal process have not been received. The company (Twitter Inc.) concern is however that they should be free to do this in a meaningful way, rather than in broad, inexact ranges.

So, Yesterday (7^th of October 2014), Twitter have filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to publish our full Transparency Report, and asking the court to declare these restrictions on their ability to speak about government surveillance as unconstitutional under the First Amendment. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is already considering the constitutionality of the non-disclosure provisions of the NSL law later this week.

The company (Twitter Inc.) have tried to achieve the level of transparency their users deserve without litigation, but to no avail. In April, they provided a draft Transparency Report addendum to the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a report which we hoped would provide meaningful transparency for our users. After many months of discussions, we were unable to convince them to allow us to publish even a redacted version of the report.

Meanwhile, Twitter Inc. continue to look for comprehensive reform of government surveillance powers in the U.S., and support meaningful efforts such as the USA Freedom Act of 2014 as introduced by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), which would allow companies like Twitter to provide more transparency to its users.

“This is an important issue for anyone who believes in a strong First Amendment, and we hope to be able to share our complete Transparency Report”; the company Public officer (Ben Lee (@BenL) opines.