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Introduction The early and medieval Christians have no theological or legal (in terms of biblical) perspectives in their perceptions of Islam, Prophet Muhammad and Muslims. Contrary to the Qur’an and Muslims who theologically, and legally perceived Christians and Christianity perhaps because of Christianity’s antecedents. Islam theologically presented a series of quandaries to early and medieval Christianity, such that some of them viewed Muslim's as pagans and some as heretics or schismatics. The Christian polemicists hardly used the term Islam or Muslim to identify their rivalry, instead, the preferences to terms such as ‘Saracens, Hagarenes, Arabs, Turks, Pagans, Moors or simply, those who follow the Law of Muhammad’ were prevalent. This writing aims to examine by typologies, the polemics of Christians that cover from the 8th century to the 15th century and discussing Christianity's arguments from the perspectives of:   St. John Damascene (675-753) Heresy and Heresia...

After the first US presidential debate, and the slow start of the incumbent, President Joe Biden, the democrats lost their minds. The democrats started to play with the acronym “SCAMPER.” They wanted a ‘substitute.’ They felt like ‘combining’ forces. They sort to make some ‘adaptations’ in their campaign strategy. They ‘modify’ the President’s schedules and so on. They wanted to ‘put into another use’ some tactics and styles. They outrightly wanted to ‘eliminate’ the President’s candidacy in the bid to ‘rearrange’ the campaign strategy to win the election come November 2024. Are you sure about that? Why all these jostles, sniffing and gossips? His crime is that he is 81 years old. They fear that he will lose them the presidency to an opponent whom the law has christened felon, the supreme court anointed a king through their presidential immunity verdict, and most Americans consider a venal potentate should he be re-elected as the president. I believe the people who criticize Mr. Bi...

Overview Nigeria is popularly known as the giant of Africa perhaps because of its population estimated at over 250 million people. It is a country with the largest concentration of black people in the entire world. In her halcyon days, the oil boom of the 1970s, with an unparallel rapid revenue expansion, peace and happiness, Nigeria began to enjoy the reputation as epitomized in the statement by the erstwhile Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon: “Money is not Nigeria’s problem. But how to spend it.” Such a statement was reflected in their leaders’ behaviours and thinking. From the 1970s to 2024, Nigeria’s leaders have not shifted from such mindsets. Both her military and civilian leaders continue to entertain careless, unaccountable, and foolish behaviours that brought a jinx upon the nation. The oil boom became a curse to the people by the Nigerian goddess called Gi-ant .   Gi-ant stands for “government issues – accountability, nepotism, thievery.” These are the three man...

Overview In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart , Unoka was the father of Okonkwo, the protagonist of the novel. Unoka was depicted as a lazy and irresponsible man, whose preference for storytelling and music instead of farming and wrestling led to his mammoth debts. Unoka had a ‘wall of debts’ in his room where he drew lines on the wall to indicate his different debts and creditors. He never paid his debts but managed to remember all of them by the marks and lines on his wall. When a creditor asked for their money back, Unoka would refer the person to his ‘wall of debts.’ Eventually, Unoka died in disgrace; owed lots of money to people, had no titles, and no achievements. Nigeria’s situation is not different from Unoka's. The political class, the elites, and their leaders are inured to the people’s plight, suffering, and deaths. Just like Unoka, Nigeria’s mammoth debts mean nothing to them. This writing will follow this outline to describe how the World Bank continually crow...

Overview Naïve or folk physics and psychology are commonplace in everyday human experience. For the former, it relates to common sense reasoning or theories that help humans understand objects and events in our world. For the latter, it helps in humans' understanding of different mental processes, emotions, and behaviour about oneself and others. This writing will attempt to consider analogically naïve or folk physics and psychology as pedestals of the technological ingenuities of predictive and generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) by following this outline: Halfway-line Goal   Zeno’s Paradox FBI Profiler and the Unabomber Africa’s Political and Economic Archetypes Between Predictive and Generative AI Predictive AI Generative AI Generative Unconscious Copilot Bard ChatGPT The above can be considered from the predictive prowess of David Beckham who scored his famous goal from the halfway line, for naïve physics, and the FBI profilers' ability to capture the Unabomber,...