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 About the most scandalous issue of the moment is a sex video involving five pupils of Chrisland Schools on Victoria Island, Lagos, and for which all branches of the elite group of schools in the megapolis was temporarily shuttered by the state government. It has been reopened. The moral horror in the video is that it had to do with underage pupils while they were away in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, to represent their school in the World School Games between 10th and 13th March, 2022. The video showed a girl said to be aged about 10 years having a romp with a boy barely older, with others in same age bracket constituting a live audience while one of them shot away at the steamy scene. Though the incident happened since early March, there was an apparent attempt by the school management to discreetly deal with the issue, but the video got leaked and went viral online early last week. It has since been made known that the pupils involved have been suspended by the school amidst ...

 Sigmund Freud was the 19th Century Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis famed for his theory of the subconscious. In layman’s construct, one major thesis of Freud’s intellectual enterprise is that the human mind is structured into two parts, namely the conscious and subconscious levels. His theory compares the mind to an iceberg: the conscious part is like the tip of the iceberg that is visible above the water but is only a tiny fraction of the massive expanse of ice hidden beneath the water, and which compares with the subconscious level of the mind. Whereas the conscious level governs premeditation and pretentions in human actions or inactions, utterances and the like, it is the subconscious level that gives reliable insight into underlying factors surrounding any particular situation. In other words, it is the subconscious level of the mind that factually explains, and holds the key to unravelling knotty state of things. A peephole into that subconscious level are...

 Sri Lanka is a remote island nation in South Asia that is rarely in the news such as commands global attention. But there were recent developments in that country offering universal lessons in leadership. By early last week, many cabinet ministers in the country’s government – a blend of presidential and parliamentary systems – had handed in their voluntary resignation over the worst economic crisis experienced in decades, which triggered defiant protests by citizens. The tiny nation of 21.9million people has been in turmoil for some weeks over a foreign exchange crisis that compelled devaluation of its local currency and sent the cost of basic goods such as food, medicine and fuel galloping. There’ve been long lines at gas stations, supermarkets and pharmacies that stretched the public’s patience, worsened by hours-long power blackouts. Public anger boiled over into violent street protests in the capital, Colombo, penultimate week, with demonstrators hauling bricks at security ag...