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Tunde Onakoya    It’s been only a few hours after Tunde Onakoya, sitting at the heart of Times Square, New York City, playing the game of Chess with his partner, Shawn Martinez, on a stretch of 60 hours, set a new Guinness World Record for the longest Chess Marathon in history. It was a victory for endurance and resilience, a triumph of mind over nature for the duo. Tunde had set a target of 58 hours for this bid, intending to surpass the current record of 56 hours, 9 minutes, and 37 seconds achieved by Hallvard Haug Flatebo and Shut Ferkingstad in Norway in November 2018. Having officially started on Wednesday, 17 April, 2024, (10 a.m. New York time), the objective was to conclude this mission on Friday, 19 April, (8:00 p.m. New York time). Having done that, he decided to push on for the 60-hour mark, which he reached at (12.40 a.m. New York time) on Saturday, 20 April. The Guinness World Record has yet to make a statement on the feat by the duo, but the organisation often does take s

  Prof Olutayo Adesina The epistemological development of Africa, as well as the demystification of contextual conceptions in knowledge perception of its culture, traditions, and social dynamics, have been subjects of pertinent character since the end of colonialism and the evolvement of decolonization efforts. While the political stakeholders arrested the pendulums of political dynamics, epistemic modification, generation, and expansion have rested on the shoulders of African scholars who have, against all odds, propelled the endeavours beyond expectations. Since 1960, the quality and quantity of knowledge production in terms of redirection of African history have been determinants of the understanding of African identity both by Africans and non-Africa. Unfortunately, many of these intellectual heroes of the African identity and intellectual developments are seldom celebrated or recognized; hence, my excitement at the news of Professor Olutayo Adesina’s winning of the United Kingdom’

  Prof Kperogi  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) aroused the rage of Nigerians this week when it revealed in its periodic newsletter called “EFCC Alert” (which it shared with news organizations on Monday) that it had recovered up to 30 billion naira of the money allegedly stolen by suspended Humanitarian and Poverty Alleviation minister Betta Edu. The rage wasn’t directed at the EFCC, of course. It was directed at Betta Edu for the deficiency of morality it must take for her to steal that much money in just six months of being a minister. The rage also comes from people’s extrapolation of how much unconscionable theft of our public wealth must be going on in this administration undetected.  What sort of moral climate conduces to such stratospheric pillaging of the public till without a tinge of compunction or fear of consequences?  Just when Nigerians were roiling in the storm of EFCC’s revelations, Edu’s lawyers denied them and threatened to sue the BBC for publishi