THE PLACE OF INFORMATION The development of a nation is directly proportional to the mental strength of its people. A people with creative mental ability produce a developed nation. Hence, the destiny of a nation lies in the hands of its people. No nation can build itself. It is the responsibility of its people to build it. Suffice me to say that any under-developed nation has itself to blame and the developed nations have their people to thank. In the light of the above, we can simply assert that our mental capacity as a people has kept Africa the way it is currently. One of the ways of going forward and developing this continent of ours is for us to fill our mind with the right information. Information in this context can be seen as knowledge. No person can act beyond what they know. In fact, the ...
What makes a man is not the number of BEARDS he has; not the number of YEARS he has spent; not the amount of TEARS he has shed; but the number of FEARS he has overcome. HIS Excellency...*
THE POWER OF THE MIND (1) While embarking on a research one day, I came across a puzzling question that I saw on one of the editions of Awake! (a monthly publication of the Jehovah’s Witnesses). The question bordered on if instincts guide animals, what guides humans? Hmmm!!! Since then, I have been thinking on it. In fact, I didn’t even want to go into the details of their own opinion about the question because I was bent on generating a more satisfying answer myself. Though unconsciously, this question lingered in my mind for years until now that I have been able to unveil a ‘probable’ answer to it and hope to get your own opinion from it. As a science educationist, I have come across several aspects of science that have exposed me to life generally. Most animals (and even micro-organisms) have brains just like humans or at least ‘brain-like’ s...
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