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By Ogiri John Ogiri One positive consequence of a profound, unbiasedly robust intellectual intercourse on controversial topics is that perspectives hitherto considered paradoxical or absurd are understood better within the boundaries of their own contexts in which they are situated.  In such academic fora, statements of paradox are espoused as theses so that participants, divorced from shackles of sentiments or stereotyped mindsets, can, in uninhibited academic freedom, make informed, logical submissions either to reject or accept the proposed thesis. Let us not shy away from having informed intercourses with our intellectual contemporaries as they help us to understand issues better from broader perspectives offered by a community of scholars in our chosen fields of study.  In doing this, we must avoid falling into the traps of ambiguities for nothing inhibits comprehension faster than ambiguities. Happy Sunday friends. © Ogiri John Ogiri.

Ogiri John Ogiri. If you have no heart to accommodate viewpoints that disagree with yours, you can't be my friend. If we must be friends, then allow me exercise my right to disagree with you just as I give you your right to disagree with me. If your perspectives are always shrouded and expressed in the cloak of uncontrolled emotional outbursts during a debate, then you're merely a demagogue, not a logical debater.  Arguments are necessary to help us situate issues away from what people often hold to be true to what is honestly the truth. So why dread an argumentative encounter with someone? Proving the existence of something usually begins with disproving its existence. To know anything deeply, question it, doubt it and you'll be led by reason to the knowledge of such thing existing. If you shy away from holding paradoxical perspectives, you miss the learning opportunities that come with it. If you're always concerned about what people will say, you'll never start a...

By Ogiri John Ogiri. Husband scarcity in Nigeria seems to have heightened today  because every young lady wants to be the first wife.  This mentality is not helping our young girls at all.  Marriage is about finding peace and so wherever you find peace and happiness, stay there and live out your Christian virtue.  Monogamy has never offered a satisfying guarantee that a man or woman will be happy in marriage. There are happy people in monogamous unions and there are unhappy people there too. Some monogamous unions are more turbulent than most polygamous unions. There are happy people in polygamous unions too. Not everything is bad about polygamy as Africans have been conditioned to believe over the years Honestly, it all narrows down to how partners live their lives and what they make of a marital union. The worst is that we have been wired to think that those in polygamous unions will not make heaven. That is not true. The Bible never mentioned that anywhere. Polyga...