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Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru, who represents Lagos East senatorial district in the Senate honours the memory of the First Executive Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, who passed on recently with a fitting tribute Nigeria’s cadre of selfless and patriotic leaders was again depleted on Thursday with the passage of Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, (1929-2021). He was a titan in his lifetime and he blazed into eternal glory as a hero. Pa LKJ was a rare being. He lived an undisguised...

John C. Calhoun: Protector of Minorities? John C. Calhoun on Capitol Hill, 2015Credit...Zach Gibson/The New York Times Buy Book ▾ By Andrew Delbanco By Robert Elder Coming so soon after a neoconfederate mob rampaged through the Capitol, a respectful biography of the ideological father of the Confederacy may feel as welcome as an exhumed corpse. But the young historian Robert Elder has given us just that in “Calhoun” — an illuminating account of the life of the notorious white supremacis...

Saint-Just proclaimed at the Convention: “ Happiness is a new idea in Europe“.   Saint-Just was a learned man and must have read the documents and discussions of the leaders of the American Revolution and the concept that happiness is a natural right for every citizen.  Was this idea of happiness similar to the one understood in Europe? After the French Revolution, there were ideas thrown around that all citizens were entitled to , like to eat properly, enjoy health, free time for lei...

Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, Founder, The Tribune Trust   NN VOHRA Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia was the scion of a notable family of Punjab. His grandfather, S. Desa Singh, was the Governor of Doaba and Majha and his father, S. Lehna Singh, was the chief of the Khalsa Army and the Governor of Majha, Amritsar and the Golden Temple. Born in 1849 (there is some ambiguity about the year of birth), young Dyal had inherited more than enough wealth to live a lordly life, full of fun and leisure. However...

Book Review: How Historians and Intellectuals Justified the British Empires Conquest Priya Satia shows persuasively in her book Times Monster: History, Conscience and Britains Empire that the Empires economic exploitation was buttressed by policies that sought to reform and civilise the colonised. The British Union Jack. Photo: Reuters History31/Jan/2021 In the 19th century, history and history writing were handmaidens of British imperialism. Historians wrote to justify empire; politicians and ...

Date Time Mayor and CEO hit road to help shire realise 20-year vision Northern Grampians Shire Council Mayor Murray Emerson and CEO Liana Thompson will be visiting communities across the shire to understand residents’ priorities for the next 20 years. As part of the Northern Grampians Shire Vision 2021 project, community forums will be held in towns across the municipality to allow residents direct input in the long-term future plan for our region. The Shire Vision 2041 will give focus to the...

Thomas Jefferson, for example, admired the ancients, and even called himself an Epicurean.[1] But he also wrote: Let a just view be taken of the moral principles inculcated by the most esteemed of the sects of antt. [= ancient] philosophy, or of their individuals; particularly Pythagoras, Socrates, Epicurus, Cicero, Epictetus, Seneca, Antoninus [= Marcus Aurelius] …. 1. Their precepts related chiefly to ourselves, and the government of those passions which, unrestrained, would disturb our t...

First published Fri Nov 29, 2002; substantive revision Mon May 1, 2017 This entry explores the topic of free speech. It starts with a general discussion of freedom in relation to speech and then moves on to examine one of the first and best defenses of free speech, based on the harm principle. This provides a useful starting point for further digressions on the subject. The discussion moves on from the harm principle to assess the argument that speech can be limited because it causes offense ra...

On 26 January members of the Northern Grampians community are invited to come together to reflect, respect and celebrate - because we are all part of the...

Skooz OK, so its like this. This used to be a really nice profile page; pics galore, nice wallpapers, and if I say so my self, pretty cool. Then, Comcast deactivated the web pages of their subscribers, including me, and all the painstaking HTML was orphaned overnight. One of these days Ill get around to rebuilding this page. One of these days ... ungh!! "Will you raise or lower my taxes?" Until that question is answered, I do not hear a word they have to say. All Hail the Mighty Kansas C...