Wednesday, August 28, 2013
"THE MARCH FOR FREEDOM, RACIAL EQUALITY, ECONOMIC JUSTICE AND RACIAL INTEGRATION CHANGED AMERICA"
It was the unlettered black men and women that who never had any college education or saw the four walls of any universities that marched for freedom and racial equality in America in the 1950s and 1960s respectively that gave us the freedom, economic opportunities and racial integration that we all enjoy today in America in 2013. The march changed the Jim Crow laws into equality before the same supreme law of America, made voting possible for all Americans, allowed racial harmony and integration in America, created economic opportunities for all Americans, changed the city councils across America, reformed the states' legislators and state governments, transformed the United States Congress, penetrated the Supreme Court's judiciary composition and put the first black man in the White House. Do not ever forget this simple truth in your lifetime if you live in America
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
"NIGERIA NEEDS A CREDIBLE NATIONAL POPULATION CENSUS IN THIS 21ST CENTURY"
The true national population figures must never be politicized by any serious minded nation that desires to experience an effective national planning, tangible progress and visible development. Nigeria as a nation has never conducted any national population census that is credible or truly reflects her real population figures of Nigeria today. This population subject remains the most divisive national matter in Nigeria today for two main reasons, which are:(i). To make one geopolitical region of Nigeria bigger than the other regions or to make one religion in Nigeria bigger that the other religions for the primary purpose of political domineering, marginalization, politics and elections. (ii). The more population in one region or state of Nigeria implies more money from the federal purse for that region or state. The current revenue allocation formula is based on the population size of each state or region of Nigeria. I do not care if a dog or a cat is nominated to head the National Population Commission (NPC) of Nigeria by President Jonathan Goodluck to conduct a very credible national population census for Nigeria for the first since 1914 to date.
"ANOTHER MAJOR CRISIS MAY BE IMMINENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST BEGINNING FROM THIS WEEK"
The planned military action by America against Syria could start as early as Thursday of this week. It is designed to destroy the Syrian military power and capabilities without putting any American boots on the ground in Syria. A military attack on Syria by America may provoke a retaliatory attacks from Syria and Iran on Israel. Both Syria and Iran will then be made to pay heavily in both the human life and the treasure if Israel is eventually attacked by her two known enemies in the Middle East. Another imminent major crisis may be in the making in 2013 in that region of the world. Only time alone will surely tell as the whole world waits anxiously.
President Assad of Syria should not be allowed by the global coalition of nations to get away with the gassing of his own people with these deadly chemicals that have killed hundreds of Syrians at the moment. If President Assad is allowed to get away with these heinous crime against his own people that he governs, then, the other brutal world's leaders like President Assad may take a clue from President Assad whenever their seats of power are threatened by the opposition groups in their various nations. The use of chemical weapons in our 21st century human universe in any civil war threatens the existence of mankind and must be ended by those nations with will and the power to do so to save humanity from the threat of extinction.
President Assad of Syria should not be allowed by the global coalition of nations to get away with the gassing of his own people with these deadly chemicals that have killed hundreds of Syrians at the moment. If President Assad is allowed to get away with these heinous crime against his own people that he governs, then, the other brutal world's leaders like President Assad may take a clue from President Assad whenever their seats of power are threatened by the opposition groups in their various nations. The use of chemical weapons in our 21st century human universe in any civil war threatens the existence of mankind and must be ended by those nations with will and the power to do so to save humanity from the threat of extinction.
"2013 ACADEMIC RANKING OF WORLD'S UNIVERSITIES RELEASED" - TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
The long-heralded shift of global academic power towards Asia appears to be happening at a glacial pace, if at all, according to this year’s Shanghai Jiao Tong university rankings.
Both the US and the UK have one fewer institution in the top 500 this year, but there was a better performance by some North American and European countries and little evidence of more Asian representation in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2013.
There are now no Asian universities in the top 20 after the University of Tokyo was displaced by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich at number 20.
China (which has 28 in the top 500), Taiwan (9), Hong Kong (5), Singapore (2), India (1) and Malaysia (1) all have the same number of universities in the table as last year.
South Korea (11) had one more institution than in 2012, but Japan (20) has one fewer.
Meanwhile, Canada (23), Germany (38) and Portugal (4) all grew their tally by one each.
There continues to be just a single country representative of Asia in the top 100 – Japan.
In the top 10, positions were largely unchanged, with Harvard University topping the table, theUniversity of Cambridge coming fifth, and the University of Oxford 10th.
However, the University of California, Berkeley, rose from fourth to third, swapping places with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The UK now has 37 universities in the top 500 after Swansea University dropped off the list. It has nine universities in the top 100, the same as last year, with University College London andImperial College London remaining in 21st and 24th place respectively.
Lower down the table, some UK universities managed to improve their positions: theUniversity of Bristol jumped six places to 64th; King’s College London moved up one to 67th; and the University of Nottingham rose three places to 83rd. The US has 149 universities in the top 500, and 52 in the top 100, one fewer than last year.
For the first time the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, founded in Saudi Arabia in 2009 with a $10 billion (£6.5 billion) endowment, has entered the table.
However, in the 401-500 sector of the list, it still has a long way to go to realise its ambition of being among the top 10 science and technology institutions by 2020.
The table is based on six, largely research-based, measures. It comes ahead of the launch of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, which will be unveiled at the THEWorld Academic Summit on 3 October in Singapore.
Academic Ranking of World Universities 2013 - top 100
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