FROM the lessons of Social Psychology, it is clear that nothing should be written-off as totally wrong because even a dead clock is correct twice everyday. All those who hate war with passion must wait till they see how war reconstruction efforts turned Hiroshima from a ghetto to an ultra-modern city after it was reduced to rubbles by the bombs of the Allied Forces in Word War II.

IN describing the Muhammadu Buhari administration as dumb I do not wish now to be understood as referring to what many commentators increasingly call the administration’s or, in fact, the president’s cluelessness (Is it not amazing that this administration has so quickly frittered away its goodwill in less than two years, to the extent that it’s now being described in the same unflattering register as the Goodluck Jonathan administration?)

“Soft loans must be made available to young graduates and I advocate interests rate which is as low as 2 or 3 percent. There should be a moratorium of 2 to 3 years before commencement of repayment.”

Everything happening in the world right now pinpoints the many failures of capitalism. The white underclass, betrayed by an economic system which promised a trickle-down effect if trade managers were allowed to operate without much challenge to conglomerates’ bottom line, opted for a world of barriers and suspicion, one which rejects the “other”, the migrant and “job thief”.

HALF of students who went to the University (University of Ife and later Obafemi Awolowo University) in the late 70s up till the early part of this millennium would not forget the name Dr. Dipo Fashina, that legendary teacher of Logic in the philosophy department and a rare gift to humanity.