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50 years later, the state government @oyostategovt still hasn't made the #connection between #destroying #vegetation on the #banks of the #Ogunpa for #construction purposes,
and its #flooding events.
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Breaking News: Judge Richard A. Posner, the most-cited legal scholar of the latter half of the 20th century, has died. nyti.ms/4Aizsyo
I honestly do not consider Lagos a “serious” State. What you have there is an extortionist organisation, not a real State government in the sense of what a serious State government actually is.
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Delphi, named after the ancient Greek oracle, is an artificial intelligence system designed to make moral and ethical judgments. The Allen Institute built Delphi to answer one question: “Can machines learn morality?” Delphi's ethical judgments were determined to be around 92% correct. However, because Delphi was created by humans, she can become as flawed and prejudiced as the people who created her. Morality is intertwined with emotion. Without the emotional system being in place, we’re just left with the ability to make utilitarian cost-benefit analyses, which is not morality.
More and more, we’re seeing lawyers defend their cases using MRI scans and the “neurology” side of morality. Morality is a function of the brain. If the area of the brain responsible for moral judgment is damaged, a person’s moral judgment can completely change. Without the emotional system being in place, we’re left only with the ability to make utilitarian cost-benefit analyses.
Morality is both biological and cultural. Biologically, what distinguishes us from other animals is our ability to make moral judgments. However, moral codes of conduct are strictly culture, built out of the need to cohabit successfully. That’s why every culture has its own morality.
Morality is a complex thing. Just like every human is on a different journey of life, we are all guided on that journey by different moral compasses. This is why morality is a difficult subject to talk about. Discussions on morality can give us a look into the lives of others and give us insight on how we should live our own.
Morality is not measured in absolutes but fractions of different pieces from different places that make up the whole pie we have come to know as humanity.
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Copper waste and scrap has become Kenya's single largest export to China, driven by surging Chinese demand for recyclable metals and recent zero-tariff trade frameworks.
Earnings from copper waste and scrap jumped to Sh3.24 billion in 2024.
Kenya imports approximately Sh9.5 billion worth of copper and copper articles in 2025 United Nations COMTRADE data.
Reports indicate that the primary source of exported copper scrap is:
a) End-of-Life Infrastructure (scrap is salvaged from obsolete electrical wiring, telecommunications cables, plumbing pipes, industrial machinery, automotive parts, and construction waste) and
b) Vandalism.
#PureMadness
#SayNo2Vandalism
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Kwara State Internal Revenue Service senior officials have been on total work standstill (strike action) since yesterday, over unresolved welfare demands, working conditions and outstanding agreements with the management. The union and management are in talks.
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When Concentrated Investment Reverses: Mapping the Systemic Links
The assumption that concentrated investment in chips and infrastructure will remain contained during a contraction ignores the mechanics of the broader system. As mapped in the first diagram detailing system links, this specific sector currently accounts for roughly 1.3 of 2.1 points of recent economic growth. A deeper pullback here does not just isolate tech; it directly reaches broader growth and federal tax receipts at the exact same time. Treating these as separate risks misses their shared exposure, a critical oversight given that this combined weight would fall on a bond market that has functioned as a weaker shelter since 2022.
The accompanying pathways matrix maps the strict arithmetic of how a one-fifth contraction would travel through the global system.The initial impact moves directly through global trade. A cut of a fifth in builder spending removes $138 billion a year from the system, measured against chip makers' yearly sales of $789 billion. Because this type of investment represents 8.7% of US GDP, the proportional loss in exports would carve out 7.8% of GDP in Malaysia, 6.8% in Taiwan, and 1.9% in Korea.
Beyond physical supply chains, the capital contraction introduces a severe sovereign stress test. A parallel fall of a fifth in US share prices would erase $5.0 trillion for foreign holders, including $0.53 trillion held directly by foreign states. This dynamic would heavily test the dollar, delivering proportional economic losses equivalent to 58% of GDP for Kuwait, 34% for Singapore, and 32% for Norway.
Ultimately, this exposure forces a systemic debt repricing. The five largest builders currently owe $848 billion in debt and leases, and with project bonds already trading below face value, arranging banks are increasingly left holding unsold supply. This culminates in the final pathway where the broader market joins the decline. Following the 2000 tech bust, US federal receipts fell from 19.8% to 15.4% of GDP over four fiscal years. A similar drop today means the two halves of the market move in tandem, forcing a strained bond market to absorb surging issuance at the precise moment it lacks the capacity to serve as a reliable cushion.
Evaluating these outcomes as isolated fractures fundamentally misprices how the transmission mechanism operates across the global economy.
People are saying Ogun/Lagos Finance bros cannot put together an investment model to fund a mass housing project like this.
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NCBA Group is among the three largest additions to the MSCI Frontier Markets Index in the November 2026 review, alongside Oman Arab Bank (Oman) and BRAC Bank (Bangladesh).
MSCI announced 12 additions and 10 deletions, with changes taking effect after market close on November 30.
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After a great first convening outside South Africa in its 22 year history, @AIJC_Conference goes back to Johannesburg next year. Here are some of my key takeaways from #AIJC2026 – at Nairobi, Kenya
Oga, in 1964, prominent Yoruba NCNC politicians, including T.O.S. Benson and R.A. Fani-Kayode, accused their own party(the same NCNC) of tribalism and nepotism in federal appointments. They warned that the NCNC had abandoned its founding ideals of “One Nigeria.”
I’m trying to educate you that how can NCNC be tribal when they held 5 seats in Lagos and only Zik was the only non westerner? He moved to the east and his issue with eyo ita was over macpherson constitution not tribal. They had alliances with NEPU in the north
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Gosh, it's like arguing with a wall 😂😂
I’m trying to educate you that how can NCNC be tribal when they held 5 seats in Lagos and only Zik was the only non westerner? He moved to the east and his issue with eyo ita was over macpherson constitution not tribal. They had alliances with NEPU in the north
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If you guys have small money that you’re not using too much, please consider becoming a member of @StartArchiving
They are doing such important work of preserving Nigerian history and they consistently give feedback on what they are doing to expand thier work.
You make one argument Abd this guy shifts the entire argument into something else. You could do better with your chronology.
The rift was so bad Jaja left and joined United National Independence Party (UNIP) with Eyo Ita. Mbadiwe stayed & led the NCNC Reform Committee, which sought to remove Zik as NCNC president and Eastern Region Premier. Then he formed Democratic Party of Nigeria and the Cameroons
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So what does this have to do with the point I am making about using ethnic organizations to take over a political party?