INTERPRETING  what someone else has written is no mean job especially when the writer and the interpreter have no common meeting point but that is exactly what law courts do every day. Justices, judges and magistrates sit in their hallowed chambers on daily basis to interpret the constitution and other laws made by the legislature to govern the proper conduct of people in society.

In every sane and forward looking society, the progenitors and harbingers of different traditions and social innovations are celebrated. Such honour is meant to motivate more productive thoughts, which are capable of stimulating inventive ideas that will impact positively on the socioeconomic and academic domains of any society.

THE popular saying that an old woman will never be tired of the dance she knows was brought to the fore recently, when  award winning writer, author and activist Ekanpou Enewaridideke added two new books to the array of of books in his collection.

All is now set for the first colloquium in memory of late Tayo Aderinokun , founder  of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, who was a patron of ANA Lagos chapter. The colloquium which is put together by the Association of Nigerian Authors ,ANA, Lagos Chapter, is scheduled to kick off  on October 24, but according to the association, neither the family of Aderinokun nor GTB have shown any support.

Stoicism, the system of philosophy in which Marcus believed, was originally a product of Middle Eastern thought. It had been founded some 300 years before Christ by Zeno, a native of Citium (now Larnaka) in Cyprus, and received its name from the ‘Stoa’, or colonnade, at Athens where he was accustomed to discourse.