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By OREVA GODWIN Can a husband truly rape his wife? This question is controversial in nature, and you, my dearest readers, know I am controversial in nature. Will I say I am a traditional woman? Yes, I will say I am one, but I am not an ethnocentrist. I'm an exposed mind, and being an ethnocentrist shows I have not evolved as a person. The world does not evolve around our traditions; the real world is more than that. We have to realise that tradition is not always right. Our forefathers in some instances were not good examples. Most of…

By IKEDDY ISIGUZO WHAT is on a man’s mind? The answer, over the years, tended to anchor on the phallocentric psychological theories of the Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud) 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939; co-founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Libidinous as his tendencies were, the profundity of a man’s mind is doubtless. Freud’s theories probed many aspects of the mind, but they were inconclusive, conflicting and added to the mysteries about the complexities of the mind and things that motivate it.Better still, what is on the mind of a 90-year-old man?…

By TUNDE OLUSUNLE Avid followers of Nigeria's sociopolitical trends and developments must be very familiar with his name and his multifarious endeavours. Indeed, if there were medals or plaques to reward bluntness and no-holds-barred interjections and interventions in public discourse, he will, rightly, undoubtedly and deservedly, be a frontline contender. He is consistently vocal, irrepressibly fearless, typically pointed, notably bold, pulls no punches. He is no respecter of suffixes, refuses to be cowed by nomenclatures, unmoved by high falutin titles, ever fire-spitting, serially hard-hitting. Where others cringe like whimps, kowtow, cavil and caterwaul, mystified by "the body language" of the…