Essays In Persuasion

MA Iliasu. Imagine the scene; two nights before a cultural festival, a team of youths - neither of which breathed quarter of a century, gather to go hunting. During the gathering, a consensus was reached, that individually a person can only catch one rabbit. But if the hunt is carried out collectively, three Buffaloes can be captured in two nights at ease. On top of that, it was argued that collective hunting eliminates the chance of any hunter getting harmed by wild animals, for night wandering is presumed to be the culture of the animals at that side of the world. The latter suggestion was all agreed, and the following night the hunters marched to the wild. Upon entering the wild, darkness consumed their hearts. Several hours into the wild and not a single buffalo was on sight. A reason that strikes fear into an aspect of the hunters, enabling them to begin exercising the thoughts of breaking away from the agreement. After all, if they march to the way of rabbits, at least some of th...

MA Iliasu . “ When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.” — Edmund Burke. As an independent arm of government, the legislature is a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government. An individual body in the legislature is what's understood to be termed a lawmaker. However, in a democratically-flawed political set up like Nigeria, the legislature face a number of challenges, ranging from fusion of power from it's executive and judiciary counterparts as oppose to separation of power in any ideal set up, accountableness as oppose to accountability, political manipulation as ...

MA Iliasu. In a very enigmatic dissection, economists believe market is different from marketplace. The two concepts have never been the same, only related in the fact that they've been seen together so many times they began being mistaken for each other. Market, economists argue, is an economic concept, associated with any activity that brings buyers and sellers into economic contact; one that usually ends with an agreed deal in place. While marketplace is a geographical concept borrowed to define any place reserved for the exchange of commodities. To expand more clearly , marketing can take place in the absence of marketplace due to the advent of science and modern technology that enable people to trade without meeting face-to-face, and the absence of organized marketplaces a very long time ago. Aerial view of Kantin kwari market. The two concepts however are very relevant to each other, especially during the time when one of them can't do without the other - the medieval and...