To address the sensitive issue of the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict equitably, the purpose of this essay is to utilize both religious and historical perspectives to justify the necessity for peace to prevail in the region.

The Middle East is also a place where threats that will menace the world in the 2030s may play out early, including nuclear proliferation, extreme weather and even greater inequality, as weak countries fall further behind

It was late at night; and sleep refused to come despite trying all the tricks known to me. As usual, I got up; opened my set to read some news of our world. Bored by the Israel-Hamas War report and the final selection of a Speaker for the US House of Representatives, I went in search of news which would be positive and uplifting. Suddenly, there it was. The story of Professor Gebisa Ejeta, a plant geneticist, teaching at Purdue University, USA, who was born in a poor village in Ethiopia; had a difficult childhood; trekked miles shoeless to school everyday, without breakfast and who overcame all those mind-boggling obstacles to become the person who can save Africans from mass starvation in the future.

At the time of his passing at the end of October 2023, Nwabueze was the most senior lawyer in Nigeria.

While there are disputes about the identity of the attackers which the state government claimed are aggrieved workers but the NLC says are thugs of the government aided by the police