America’s declining education and its impact on society

What does education mean to you? Let us turn our attention to solving one of the nation’s most important problems, education. Education is one of the most important foundations, if not the most important, that should be instilled in today’s children. The fact is that it is the dream of every parent to see their …

Maharishi Patanjali’s Yoga – The Joy of Brahmacharya

Bramacharya is the fourth Yama, described by Maharishi Patanjali, in the Yoga Sutras. The literal definition of the root words, brahma and acarya, is “brahmanical behavior”. In fact, Bramacharya is also the first Asrama (stage of the life of a Brahman), when a student lives a life of celibacy and purity, while studying the Vedas. …

Top 5 Nigerian Soccer Players Who Hit the Headlines for the Wrong Reasons

In Nigeria, football is followed with great passion considering that the country is still the largest exporter of footballers from the world’s top leagues. However, the game is not without its players becoming famous for the wrong reasons. Below are the top five Nigerian players who, while talented, were always on the receiving end of …

Iconization, erasure and fractal recursion

According to Judith Irvine and Susan Gal, the ideology of language arises because the owners and users of language are subject to the political and moral issues that pervade any given sociolinguistic field. In short, as these writers succinctly put it, seeing a language out of nowhere [i.e., objectively] it’s not possible. As a consequence, …