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Truth avails a nation while falsehood destroys it.
It also strengthens the bond of truce while falsehood weakens the ties of friendship.
In all spheres of human life, truth is an essential element for peaceful co-existence and interpersonal relationships on socio-political, economic, and business transactions.
Truth has to do with fulfillment and sincerity in agreement, keeping promises, respect for the oath of allegiance, and holding in trust resources for distribution based on the equity concept.
This is the reason why the concept of truth could be described as a fundamental code of life that must be learned and taught across the limes of formal, informal, and non-formal education to serve as the backbone of all socialization processes.

The element of truth, if altered, will always produce leaders without credibility and will ever rubbish efforts in realizing good governance.
Truth dictates that wealth acquisition must follow legitimate means for the resources to be able to create an impact on the expected targetted areas without creating room for agitations.
The Holy Quran  2: 42 refers, '' And cover not the Truth when ye know what it is  what it is.''
Above all, education is fundamental to the realization of the truth in any society.
This must reflect in all processes of parenting, friendship, teaching, and learning, scripture compliance challenge, business transactions, and political activities.
The truth must manifest in everyone and the society as the conformity to facts and reality.

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In the 19th century in England, children and adults of both sexes were subjected to despicable factory labor.
Even though there were several factory-reform movements that led the agitations for an end to inhuman practices in the factories; the stubborn, unscrupulous, and grasping attitude of the factory owners, who were in their private lives often kind fathers and husbands, such as John Bright, resisted reforms in their factories and still engaged children of nine years old to work in these factories.
In the same vein in Nigeria today, the exploitation of labor, children inclusive is now very prominent.
Underaged children engaged by those in the Organized POrivate Sector(OPS) and government contractors are commonplace in a number of states, while these contractors minimize costs by going further to engage cheap labor and procure inferior materials.
However, in England, factories, workshops, and mines reforms became a reality after a long and painful struggle against the resistance of interested parties and the passive attitude of others.
Sadly in Nigeria, despite existing legislation on child labor and exploitation of labor, the ugly acts continue unabated due to the overbearing nature of interested parties who are beneficiaries of government patronage and stakeholders in the Organized Private Sector.
Indeed, the absence of those in the mold of John Doherty, Robert Owen, John Fielden, John Wood, G.S Bull, and Anthony Ashely in the Nigerian space today;  has allowed for the continuation of the anti-labor practices. This is obviously in favor of the government and the OPS, since the emphasis is on the benefits and not the losses.
Unfortunately, the will of the Government at all levels to enforce regulations is almost non-existent and on the other hand slow in realizing its responsibilities.
Not surprisingly,  a strange development that is fast becoming the norm in major cities and towns across Nigeria, is the increasing population of prostitutes, minors inclusive, in newly constructed hotels. This is in addition to the emerging generation of young criminals, who report daily to older men and women in these hotels.

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Most often, human beings forgive people for what they perceived as offenses against them which out of the offenders' acts of soberness and repentance may necessitate an individual to declare forgiveness.
In every human system, the customary, magistrate, high, appeal and supremer courts have jurisdiction to hear and judge cases.
However, most times the judgments emanating from these courts are controversial.
Religious books unanimously agree that human beings must not be judgmental to the level of condemning others, most especially when perceptions are different on the same issue at stake.
We must rather live to tolerate one another and to role model virtues to be able to correct perceived aberrations from others.
Divine judgment from God is justified by the claim of been our creator most especially on the ways we live our lives justly or unjustly, sinfully or sinlessly, crime-prone and crime-free.

In a situation wherein lies are peddled to live comfortable lives, the law of natural justice or karma or retribution is bound to take emerge.
We can now appreciate the scriptural submissions that our activities here on earth with the interplay of very many forcers surrounding us deviate us from the path of righteousness for a test or assignment to be assessed by the almighty God our creator.
Divine judgment, therefore, should be seen as eternal and more grievous than any judgment human beings can give themselves.
Divine judgment should not be perceived in the negative sense, that is as a disaster or misfortune inflicted by God as punishment.
Judgment may favor the good ones and it may not favor the bad ones before God.
The scripture upholding our religious beliefs would only remain an article of test on the way we keep to it And live by it.

Human judgment is always bereft of divine substance, for the judge to be able to reflect into the past genealogical order before passing judgment.
To err is human and to forgive is divine.

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Nigerians continue to groan as the strangulating grip of the tax regime at all levels of government tightens.  
The reason for the tax regime by Those-in-Charge is obvious-more revenue-even as Those-in-Charge has decided to take additional loans to finance projects that fall under the category of misplaced priorities.
However, during the Napoleonic wars, one of Those in Government in Britain, Pitt, resorted to an income tax to aid the defraying national expenditure. The burden of the war debt was humongous. £ 74,500,000 revenue was required annually to service the debt and other expenditures.
This was four times the pre-war budget, which resulted in the multiplication of taxes. During this period, government officials made excusable mistakes or were rather frankly ignorant.  Indeed, smuggling and other sharp practices became prominent.
There were taxes on the import of manufactured goods and taxes on the export of raw materials. There were also various revenue taxes on consumption whose range and number had gone beyond the roof tops due to the pressure from the Napoleonic wars.
The article of Sydney Smith  in The Edinburgh Review in 1820, summed up the precarious situation confronting Nigerian presently: ''Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth or covers the back, or is placed under the foot-taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion-taxes on earth, and the waters under the earthy-on everything that comes from abroad or grown at home-taxes on the raw material-taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man-taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health.....''

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The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has decried the acute shortage of teachers in Nigeria.
The assertion was made on Tuesday by the National President of the NUT, Dr. Nasir Idris in a goodwill message on the occasion of the World Teachers' day in Ibadan, Oyo state.
''The NUT has noted with dismay the acute shortage of teachers in our schools, resulting in unhealthy teacher-learner ratio.  We, therefore,  call on State Governments to ensure adequate recruitment of teachers for effective teaching and learning schools, Dr. Idris stated.

Similarly, The NUT State Chairman, Oyo state wing, Comrade Tojuade Adedoyin noted that despite a myriad of challenges  confronting the state government, ''the administration of our God Sent Messiah(GSM) still found it necessary to employ 5,000 qualified teachers into the core teaching service of Oyo state Public Secondary Schools.''

Comrade Adedoyin went a step further lamenting that ''our Primary schools are short of staff due to the retirement of teachers. I humbly request Your Excellency to grant approval to SUBEB for recruitment of teachers into various Public Primary Schools across the state.''

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Riches are like a double-edged sword, wherein one side is evaluated through spiritual endowment and the other side through socio-economic achievements.
The Almighty Allah recommended due process for achieving riches.
The Holy Quran 11: 16 refers, '' There is no moving creature on earth, but its sustenance depended on Allah: He knoweth its resting place and its temporary deposit: All is in a clear record.''
The regulatory measure, therefore, is preferred as a due process of acquisition of wealth through the dignity of labor by legitimate means. If we follow this, the created social classes would have been justified through hard labor and competence, with the consequential result of promotion to get higher classes of economic and social levels.
However,  tur riches become elusive when we illegally acquire wealth without any regard for the due process of legitimate earning.
Corrupt enrichment, therefore, erodes away the spiritual endowment, making the victims wallow in the bondage of satan.
The Holy Bible, James  1: 9-11 becomes food for thought to be rightly guided on true riches from the legitimate acquisition of wealth. ''9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.''
The lesson from this is that beyond the fundamental need, luxuries must be allowed to go into the areas of services where others are in dire need to promote the principles of equity.

The Holy Quran 13: 26 refers, '' Allah doth enlarge, or grant by strict measure, the sustenance which He giveth to whom so He pleaseth. Thew worldly rejoice in the life of this world: but the life of this world is but little comfort compared to the hereafter.''
This corroborates, that for believers true riches are given by strict measure with the accompanying endowment of the Holy Spirit.
Wealth acquired, therefore,  through unjust means or injustice would have trampled upon the fundamental human rights of access of others by depleting their resources for the dubious man to live in affluence.
The almighty God, therefore, declared in the Holy Bible, Isaiah 59: 1-2, that He is all caring, saving, hearing, and seeing, and ready to answer people's requests, most especially the believers.
The Holy Quran 2: 45 refers, ''Nay seek Allah's help with patient perseverance and prayer: It is indeed hard except to those who are humble.''
Seek, therefore, for true riches through the respect for the dignity of labor and legitimate earning as a believer to be endowed by the almighty Allah with spiritual richness and tranquility of the mind, with all promises of God guaranteeing people's safety and the security of lives and properties.

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The bad harvest of 1792 in England, the grave discontent among the people, the high rate of unemployment, the prohibitive prices of food items, repression by the government among numerous other factors had adverse effects on its socio-economic and political development.
In Nigeria in 2021, insecurity, hunger, poverty, the high unemployment rate, violent crimes, incompetence, misplaced priorities, mediocrity, the beautification of lies and falsehood, the condemnable activities of state actors and their agents have visible prints in every part of the country for the people to see.

Indeed, the insinuation is that leadership at all levels has derailed.
The ignoble roles played by the likes of John Castle, Oliver, and George Edwards, all provocative agents of the government and spies, have further dented the image of the leadership and also eroded its credibility.
The actions of Pitt in the House of Commons and Grenville in the Lords resulted in the passage into law of the Seditious Meetings Bill and the Treasonable Practices Bill, re-echoed in both chambers of the National Assembly.
Unprovoked attacks by the government, with the aid of armed force upon unarmed people exercising their constitutional rights to meet together to make in a peaceful and dignified manner, rational demands in the name of justice, is already a policy of the government.
Nigeria has its own version of the ''waterloo'' massacre.
Restrictive laws have only succeeded in promoting disaffection and discontent in different parts of the country and the destination now is a departure from all principles of the constitution.
Those-in-Charge in the mold of Pitt, Eldon, Castle, and Sidmouth understand the language of repression best, while the disillusioned and impoverished citizenry watches helplessly.
However, the consolation for the people lies in the fact that the time is too short for the functionality of the various distractions lined up by the leadership to cover up its failures.

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The overbearing influence of dysfunctional agents of socialization including defective parental upbringing have all combined to make the youth tobe threats to Nigeria’s future.

This assertion was made on Friday by the Founder, Spiritual Head and Grand Imam of Shfaudeen-in-Islam Worldwide, Prof. Sabitu Olagoke in his message to the nation on the occasion of the 61st independence anniversary of Nigeria.

‘’Today’s youth suffers from immature parental care and dysfunctional agents of socialization. The youth in Nigeria are at the receiving end of all activities emanating from Religion, Culture, Education, Politics and Society. Unfortunately, when each of these agents are poorly managed the effect on the youth may be a temporary or permanent damage to to their growth and development as a costly prize for the nation’s future.Thuggery,truancy, examination malpractice, hawking, unwanted pregnancy, rape, vandalism, pedophilia and other antisocial behaviors result from these deficiencies.Products of very faulty backgrounds are enmeshed in entertainment,poor reading culture, and mindset to loot the national and state treasuries at any given opportunity. They lack moral candor for leadership with wrong value orientation that is bad for leadership,’’ Prof. Olagoke concluded.

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                                                                Press Release

TRENTON, N.J. – A New Jersey man has been arrested for charging unauthorized credit card transactions for music lessons that were not provided to students, and laundering these funds outside of the United States, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
Michael Lawson, 49, was indicted in 2013 on six counts of wire fraud and six counts of international money laundering. Lawson was extradited from the Czech Republic, made his initial appearance today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Bongiovanni in Trenton federal court, and was released.
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:
Lawson was the owner of several internet-based companies that matched art and music teachers with students in need of lessons throughout the United States. The students entered into contracts with Lawson’s companies and agreed to pay for lessons via online credit card transactions. Beginning in November 2008, Lawson started renewing students’ contracts for music lessons without the students’ knowledge and consent and started charging the students’ credit cards for the lessons that they had not requested. Lawson then directed the funds to be transferred internationally to accounts that he controlled abroad. 
The counts of wire fraud are punishable by a maximum of 20 years in prison and a maximum fine $250,000, or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense, whichever is greatest. The counts of money laundering are punishable by a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of $500,000, or twice the amount involved in the offense, whichever is greater.
Acting U.S. Attorney Honig credited special agents of the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge George M. Crouch Jr. in Newark, with the investigation leading to the charges. She also thanked the U.S. Marshals Service; the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic; the Czech Police Presidium; INTERPOL; the office of FBI Legat Prague; the office of FBI Legat "The Hague;" and FBI-New York JFK Airport Resident Agency, for their assistance. The Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs provided substantial assistance in securing Lawson’s arrest and extradition from the Czech Republic. 
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Suggs in Trenton.
The charges and allegations contained in the indictment are merely accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

Source-FBI
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The significance of tolerance among the people of the world is relevant when one considers diversity, most especially in the area of opinion molding about people.
Tolerance, therefore, needs to be taught as part of the socialization process in the search for peace and unity to be realized to a sustainable level of human social interactions, otherwise, the agents of socialization themselves may not even know peace, not t talk of having the ability to regulate and control intolerance for one another.
For example, on the homefront, the discriminative attitude in child-rearing by parents; may influence siblings to become intolerant of one another.

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The absence of tolerance has resulted in the death of one of the parties in the homefront due to domestic violence.

Furthermore, the absence of tolerance has led to the loss of lives and the destruction of properties during religious crises.
For the realization of tolerance in religious circles, the internalization of the teachings from the scriptures is crucial to achieving peace, unity, and development.
In the final analysis, tolerance is essential to promote a safe and secured environment as an enabling instrument for the survival of the dynamics of all agents of socialization-the school, church, mosque, government, home, associations, peer groups among several others.

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