Introduction In Nigeria today, it has become painfully evident that education no longer pays. The irony is loud and clear: a person who has laboured through the grueling academic ladder – first degree, Master’s, and PhD – often finds themselves poorer than someone who sweeps office floors in other African countries. Across Africa and beyond, janitors and cleaners are treated with greater financial dignity than Nigerian scholars. This is not to smear the reputation of the janitors, or ridicule the honest cleaners; rather, it is to highlight the shameful undervaluing of academic excellence in Nigeria. When a PhD holder lives in debt, and a cleaner in South Africa, Kenya, or Ghana lives in dignity, something is tragically wrong with our system. It reveals, in the very depth, the misplacement of priorities in the country, and the endemic corruption that continues to perforate the socio-economic fabric of the Nigerian state. Table 1 and 2 below reveal frighteningly the dispar...
No addiction in the history of mankind has wrought as much devastation as gambling. It is a dark magnetic tunnel, sucking its victims into an abyss where they throw away everything – wealth, family, dignity, and even their lives. Unlike smoking, drinking, or womanizing – vices that extract a toll but leave some room for survival – gambling strips a person to the bone, leaving them broken and enslaved to an unquenchable thirst for a win that never truly comes. History is littered with gamblers who have pawned their heirlooms, depleted savings, and even borrowed vast sums in a desperate bid to reclaim their losses – only to sink deeper. They are the slaves of a monstrous system, toiling through the rough contours of life, yet surrendering everything they earn to the faceless gods of gambling – the rich Mammon-s who sit atop empires built from the sweat and suffering of their enslaved bettors. These owners revel in boundless luxury, feasting on the wealth of their addicts, who lab...