on

What’s the value in knowing that China’s top 7, 2020 infrastructural projects are railways related?

Below are China’s top 7, 2020 infrastructural projects: Chongqing-Kunming, $20.5b, 699km high speed railway. The 6-year project will have a top speed of 350km/hour Chengdu, $19.1b, 176.65km urban rail transit phase iv Zhengzhou, $16.5b, 159.6km urban rail transit phase iii Xian, $14b urban rail transit Beijing, $12.5b urban rail transit phase ii adjustment Shenyang-Bache, $10.5b, 428km high speed railway Baotou-Yinchuan, $7.9b high speed railway

on

Recently Trump referred to some people as ‘prophets of doom.’ Do prophets of doom have any value?

At the recently concluded World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, United States President, Donald Trump referred to some people as ‘prophets of doom.’ Do prophets of doom have any value? What is the verdict of history? The stories of Jeremiah, Julius Caesar’s Soothsayer, and loads of others show that prophets of doom have value primarily because they offer the following: The benefit of a counter-perspective…

Read More

on

Those fans of Kobe Bryant who want to rape and kill that Washington Post reporter

Last Monday, as we joined the world to grieve the shocking passage of basketball great Kobe Bryant, we focused primarily on how his death diminished us (read post here.) When reports emerged last week that a political reporter with Washington Post had in her account of Kobe’s death included a link to a story about a rape allegation against him, which incurred the wrath of…

Read More

on

With Canada now confirmed, shouldn’t Megan take Bradley Cooper’s advice on how to cope with paparazzi?

It is instructive that following the successful wrap of Megxit, one of the first things ‘the world’ heard from Megan was a threat to sue persons who took and published photographs from a recent walk she took in Canada. Immediately I saw the piece I remembered Bradley Cooper’s advice on how to cope with paparazzi. He turned 45 on January 5. In one of the…

Read More

on

Transsion’s Tecno’s triumphant technique teaches terrific things

Successful systems often commend themselves to us as models worthy of emulation, directly or indirectly. As we find validation of those systems in attempts to replicate them elsewhere. Chenzen-based Chinese smartphone manufacturers, Transsion, makers of Tecno, Itel and Infinix, decided from the get-go that they would not market their phones in China. But exclusively in emerging markets. They considered it pointless selling their phones at…

Read More

on

The World Corruption Index, PDP’s kick, Garba Shehu’s riposte, and that other matter

The latest World Corruption Index was released last week. As was expected, the details elicited various reactions. The Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, got a kick from it as it attempted to used Nigeria’s scores on the Index to hit at the government’s anti-corruption credentials. Expectedly, Presidential Spokesman, Garba Shehu immediately released a riposte. Saying that the scores from Transparency International, organizers of the global corruption…

Read More

on

Can we make Gembu our own Davos and attract the attendant tourism big bucks from visitors?

This year’s edition of the World Economic Forum, which holds in Davos, has just ended with participants going back to their respective stations carrying different bags of memories. United States President, Donald Trump, facing impeachment trial at home, left it all for some moments in the snow-laden city. Other world heavyweights in business, government, technology, academia, and activism joined in the global talk fest. As…

Read More

on

How we are diminished by the death of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and 7 others

The global grieving index following their passing has increased The global tears reserve following their passing has dropped Coming at a time many parts of the world are in panic mode over the coronavirus, lassa fever, bush fires, swarms of locusts, means that the attention given to grieving the basketball legend and others will be short-lived Coming at a time the world has become so…

Read More