Monday, February 21, 2011

Crime and the Societal Conceptualization

Crime is a huge problem and to try to reduce it large amount of money have been invested in the combat of crime. The government has produced many schemes and plan to attempt to reduce crime but to no avail.
There is no simplistic framework to describe crime. The range of crime is enormous and it can also be contradictory in the way that people are fearful of crime yet at the same time fascinated by it. All types of crime impact everyone. The general given by students about crime is that it happens to others. There are two parties when a crime is committed. These are the criminals themselves and the victims. Criminals are often described as strangers and not like us. But the truth is they are often relatives of ours and most victims know the person who committed the crime. Victims at surface level are felt sorry for although it is always considered deep down whether they provoked it. Crime is part of everyday life. Everyone commits crimes as part of their everyday basis.
Crime is covered widely in the media for instance television viewings of criminal programmes has increased and become extremely popular. The programme that involve crime often prevail a false interpretation of crime and impact on the society. Such impacts are seen in women who would not walk on their own and make them more conscious of where they are walking. The same applies to the elderly who become more afraid that they will be attacked. To combat this increasing fear of crime, crime prevention methods such as locks, alarms, bank cards and security cameras have increased.
Most serious crimes include abuse, which can either be physical, sexual or emotional, but simple hazards like pollution, fraud and shoplifting cause us harm. We all commit crimes whether it be driving over the speed limit to simple dishonesty like taking pens home from work, or paying with cash to avoid Value Added Tax (V.A.T). All of these are crimes but where does the boundary lie between crime and hard crime and what is real crime.
It is on this imperative note that i say even if it divorce which is heinous crime against humanity. At the same time a crime even if it is going against traffic laws or what society calls minors crimes of sort.

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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Issues of Brain Drain and Gain

Hi dear reader, it is imperative at this point to have an in depth analysis of the rate of drain and gain in the national grid of knowledge, intellectuals, genius and scenius. Here, I want to bring to the fore, rate of brain drain as it supersedes that of gain. The discourse of the above national topic tends to expose what and what encourage brain drain. Likewise the article will also delineate those factors that encourage brain gain.
Hence below is the enlistment of some of this points which encourage and discourage brain drain in the national equation;
• Absolute Zero Employment: This is a situation whereby there is lack of employment. As well most jobs are kept for high echelon in our society and to who knows who. Some jobs openings are no more based on merit academically or on the job experience. At the end of the day, this forces genius to go in search of greener pastures in foreign lands.
• Lack of Power: Here, when a nation cannot provide its inhabitants with consistent and uninterrupted power supply that nation encourages brain drain and economic drain as well. This is exemplified in Nigeria where her businessmen are moving over Ghana for efficient and effective return on investment. Most economic versus business activities rely on power for its day to day operations.
• Inavailability of Financial Incentives: What I mean here is that it is the duty of both governments and its financial institutions to offer manufacturers, distributors etc loans and other financial support available. When there is a lack in such areas that brings about drain in the national knowledge base.
On the other hand, the only and essential commodity that brings about a brain gain is this; numerous other factors do exist.
• Investment Opportunity and Security: It is of paramount importance for the need of security in a state to protect both employers and investors from danger. In the same vein, investment opportunity is the only safe landing avenue to attract both local and foreign investors to thrive in a nation. This last two point go hand-in-hand and as well complement each other. It is because the inavailability of one can usher in the reduction or lack of the other. What is your own view to the game of brain drain and gain? Your answer can be found in your state national statistics.

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Sunday, November 14, 2010

The Power of Nudity and Fashion in Women

Let me start by defining nudity as it is expressed in the Merriam Webster Dictionary as being devoid of a natural or conventional covering especially not covered by clothing. The act of going nude is born out of fashion. At this point I would like to bring to the fore certain shifts from fashion to nudism. The reader before this generation entered both the jet and information age, women have been seen with so creatively sown clothing of all types.
Some of which are so interesting and appealing to behold; on the other hand acceptable. It is a truism to state without equivocation that it is crave for fashion that led women to dress and appear nude. Nudism which is practiced by the female folk all over the world existed through the evolution of fashion. It is against this backdrop that intellectuals captured it as the practice of going nude especially in sexually mixed groups. The so called evolutionary trend in fashion industry now led to go almost naked is something to be contended with.
Today, it has become a norm and socially accepted to dress anyway you like. It has been adopted without asking what the implications are. What are the effects to the society? The focus of this write-up revolves around the above questions and how to go about resolving this societal madness. Our women new fashion glamour is only intended for distraction to the opposite sex. In the days past women concentrate on whatever she lays her hand on. But today on seeing rudely dressed lady, her focus shifts to thinking on how to be the one wearing such bombshell called mini-skirt, body hug, tight jeans etc.
Consequently, this has brought in its wake girl-child rape, extensive spread of the almighty virus termed Human Immune Virus (HIV). Our society witnesses high rate of armed robbery, get rich quick syndrome, ritual killings to mention but a few. It is not only the issue of economic down-turn that makes the masses to suffer but on the contrary we have refused to put our priority right. The builders of our homes insist on joining the bandwagon of latest clothing seen in the market today. They have crossed the Rubicon as it concerns dressing modestly. In the female world, it is either you dress showing your private part or you are not in tune with modernity craze for nakedness of evil intention.

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Friday, November 12, 2010

Corruption as a Virus to Economic Growth

The term above is as pandemic as it is endemic to national economy. Why? This is owing to the fact that virus as an organism behaves like a timing bomb and reproduces every millisecond of its young. Corruption has been described as a virus because it reproduces as it permits the fabric of the society. The words of wisdom say that “charity begins at home” and here and now Nigeria will be the focal point of my discourse.
The national reserves have seriously depleted, a lot of businessmen are moving their business to Ghana while internal borrowing is on the increase. All these are a pointer that the nation is infected with a virus diagnosed as corruption. More over, this has continued despite the instituted and the assumed anti-corruption crusade programme. The list of organizations fighting corruption includes Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) etc. Let me remind you that corruption is a virus which myriads of all these organizations cannot cure or eliminate.
I think and suggest once more that before our nation can tackle the venom; we need to cure People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Nigeria. This stems from the fact that the masses have learned and seriously visualized the modus operandi of the party mentioned. I can state categorically that every other ministry that makes up the polity buys corruption formula and implement same in their own sector. They do this to be able to suite the structural and organizational bottlenecks that exist in every sector and as well encourage the spread of the virus. The party in question has injected more power to the virus that it does have. How? They assume themselves as the only party that have the key and can steer the ship of the nation to their own advantage.
In addition to this, at the end of the day every other political office holders are all hankering for the national cake. At the same time adding more succours to the strength of advance fee fraud, organized crime is the order of the day. The economic development of the nation is nothing to write home about. Why is this situation lingering up till date? It is only because of a pathogen termed corruption virus ravaging all sectors of our economy. Then, in some months to come the nation will enter another election period to usher in new sets of leaders to continue the advance fee fraud or to steer the ship of the nation to the right harbor. Allow me to say this let the man who has the solution be in the position: you can find a reference point of this on the article entitled “civil society unrest and Guinea election”.

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Corruption as a Virus to Economic Growth

The term above is as pandemic as it is endemic to national economy. Why? This is owing to the fact that virus as an organism behaves like a timing bomb and reproduces every millisecond of its young. Corruption has been described as a virus because it reproduces as it permits the fabric of the society. The words of wisdom say that “charity begins at home” and here and now Nigeria will be the focal point of my discourse.
The national reserves have seriously depleted, a lot of businessmen are moving their business to Ghana while internal borrowing is on the increase. All these are a pointer that the nation is infected with a virus diagnosed as corruption. More over, this has continued despite the instituted and the assumed anti-corruption crusade programme. The list of organizations fighting corruption includes Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) etc. Let me remind you that corruption is a virus which myriads of all these organizations cannot cure or eliminate.
I think and suggest once more that before our nation can tackle the venom; we need to cure People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Nigeria. This stems from the fact that the masses have learned and seriously visualized the modus operandi of the party mentioned. I can state categorically that every other ministry that makes up the polity buys corruption formula and implement same in their own sector. They do this to be able to suite the structural and organizational bottlenecks that exist in every sector and as well encourage the spread of the virus. The party in question has injected more power to the virus that it does have. How? They assume themselves as the only party that have the key and can steer the ship of the nation to their own advantage.
In addition to this, at the end of the day every other political office holders are all hankering for the national cake. At the same time adding more succours to the strength of advance fee fraud, organized crime is the order of the day. The economic development of the nation is nothing to write home about. Why is this situation lingering up till date? It is only because of a pathogen termed corruption virus ravaging all sectors of our economy. Then, in some months to come the nation will enter another election period to usher in new sets of leaders to continue the advance fee fraud or to steer the ship of the nation to the right harbor. Allow me to say this let the man who has the solution be in the position: you can find a reference point of this on the article entitled “civil society unrest and Guinea election”.

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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Civil Society Unrest and Guinea Election

The spate of civil unrest in Guinea and its environs is a demon that cannot be captured so vividly on black and white. It is too appalling to behold or unheard of that women were publicly raped while some are carried away for military men mass rape. My dear reader the list is endless and indeed inexhaustible.
Let me once more delve into the civil society unrest so paramount in the Guinea today before corroborating it with election. It is said of recent that it is only the man with solution that can be in the position to bring about a change in the system. The dwindling state of affairs in the country in question ranging from bad governance, dictatorship, poverty, oppression and civil unrest is a resultant effect of the above saying. When the man in power is wrong or in a dictating form, every other thing will align to the same form.
Once upon a time, in December 2008 when the city of Guineans enters the state of deadlock following the assumption and enthronement of an officer of military face and colour. The man appeared to be Captain Moussa Dadis Camara as the President of the said state. My story goes through September 2007 and 2009 another level of chaos was witnessed by the State. Thus pushing this great country into a state of perfidy. Subsequently, all these atrocities are committed without recourse to the United Nations Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement officials in dispersing protesters in any country.
It is now being reported that one hundred and one of organizations condemned the mishandling of protesters in the city of Guinea. But all things being equal, Albert Einstein have once quoted and I paraphrase him as saying that evil triumph because good men do nothing to forestall evil. Let the Guineans, French and both the regional and international civil society not appear to be only talking tall without an equivalent action for eradicating evil.
Now it is being suggested and recommended as urging the two presidential candidates to walk the path of peace and enthronement of democratic values and norms into the fabric and garments of the Guineans. I think it is high time and in ongoing presidential election for the contenders and the masses especially the military to see this as birth of democracy in the country. While the past starting from the December 2008 event to date as the gestation period of democracy into their dear country. The reason being that it is only the man who have the solution must be in the position to rule. Look out for a closer article to this in my subsequent posts.
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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Indeed Who Own the Planet: Google or Not?

Today the Internet technology and its structural make-up are receiving a lot of boost in terms of softwares, automation, World Wide Web etc. Have you for once taken a holistic view of what Google provides in relation to content provider, search engine optimization and diversification? It is in bid to fill this technological know-how that led Randall Stross to come up with a book entitled “Planet Google How One Company is Transforming our Lives”. By the same token this led the author of this article to ask now; indeed who own the planet: Google or not?
The above topic cannot be conceptualized without first exposing what Google engender in terms of World Wide Web content provider. It started to rise from a small upstart in the hostel of two post-graduate students of Computer Science at the Stanford University; Sergey Brin and Larry Page in the year 1998. The idea of two post-graduate students of the University of Stanford have transcended into a gigantic Internet search services provider. These two intellectual scenius go with the principle of chain reaction in the world of chemistry. Why? This hinges from the fact that any input in the company brings about a substantial increase in profit, not only that; it also equates innovation with its idea of going global.
Furthermore, the above assertion rings true when in the year 1999 this great company in question received a total sum of $25m from two venture capitalists in the form of equity. It began to enlarge its goal. The reader might be obliged to ask what goal the company is enlarging. It dares to organize all of the world’s information into its search engine, especially through the portals of its world wide web. This very company does not stop its expansion there, they began in roughly about a year ago come up with Google Chrome. This is a browser owned by this service provider to help its client or end-users browse the Internet with their local content browser. To draw this issue to its elastic limit, the planet owner, Google also incorporate a blogger.com into myriads of other services to enable its clients utilize the web to its optimum.
Please at this juncture, the researcher would not forgive me if I do not present this company that dares to thread where angels fled as a hub for the global advertising of all manner of services, goods and educational research center for the intellectuals. It did not leave it alone to its company to provide the platform and utilize the platform as well. Hence, it sells it off to users and clients that tend to earn money through the Internet. The company under discourse serves and provides an enabling environment for buyers and sellers of goods and services to meet and transact business. To drive home my points, the innovations did not stop there; they created affiliates between the buyers and sellers. The affiliate is an intermediary or an agent that advertizes on behalf of the seller.
Here, the transformer and reformer of lives in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) uses its founder’s idealistic ambition to create whatever thing they want to provide to its numerous users. It had and it will always have a divergent view of everything it invents and implements. How? It is until this month and this year that the organizer of information and transformer of idea of this technological know-how came up with another mind boggling proposition. They tend to create an enabling environment for the provision of expert advice to users online ranging from technical support, news, business information etc to its teeming customers. The software or the platform is termed the ‘Baraza’ of Google which will be implemented in several African countries including Nigeria.
After its incorporation in its portal in Nigeria for instance, users in Nigeria or coming into Nigeria can have access to key questions like: Where is Zuma Rock located in Nigeria? Who is the Governor of Lagos State? Users can ask these questions by keying it in and as well get the answers from the expert online all this happening in real time. In a nutshell, the reader without blinking of eye indeed who own the planet: Google or not? I am not trying to present only and only Google to you but on the contrary what other service providers can do more than the firm in terms of its search engines, advertisement platform and coming up with something better than Baraza. Let leave this question on the sand of time or for the next generation to ponder on. What is your comment on this issue?
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