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KEMKA S. IBEJI  It's a daylight fact and an undemocratic truth to say that our country, Nigeria, is in political turmoil. The bright morning star has chosen to shine dark and the pieces of our eyes can only pick patches of blindness. Woe onto our land as it journeys fiercely and furiously on the precipice of a slippy slope. It sounds like all our pitiable shrills are piercing admixture of elegy and dirge for ourselves though we are still alive. This leaves an impression of hopelessness and utter dismay. Don't ask me if we can ever recover please. Please! One Mr. Peter Obi sauntered towards the stage with all accoutrements of shimmering hope. That hope was fought as a war dangerously waged by a movement of the conscientious and intentional young population of Nigerians across colours and tongues. Knives, swords and sundry weapons were made available at all rungs of their climbing and entreaties from disguised enemies flowed and flowered but the determination of these young Niger...

The major difference between humans and the lower animals is rationality. But this comes with so many other things. Rationality entails there are things to think about. Such things as alternatives. Humans make choices as always presented with alternatives. With choice comes responsibility. Every choice therefore has a responsibility. This network makes human person different from the rest of organisms. The essential characteristics of human person therefore are; rationality, choice and responsibility. Within these are; freedom, alternatives or options. These must be complete in a being for such a being to be part of mankind. The implication is that if you deny any human being any of these features, you have dehumanised him or her. Dehumanisation therefore means the denial of rationality, choice, or responsibility. Inferentially, it also means the denial of freedom and alternatives. Whenever anyone no longer has any of these essential human characteristics, the being ceases to be huma...