Going into 2024 Amid Uncertainty
25 November 2023 By Abiodun Kareem Giwa
Asylum seekers in the United States encountering something different from a greener pasture
The 2023 Thanksgiving celebration is behind us. We await the Christmas and New Year celebrations, ready to bid 2023 bye with all its goodness and woes. The war in Ukraine began in 2022 and continued into 2023. Another combat began between Israel and the Hamas, pitching the Palestinians in the middle. There is a global economic problem that some experts say arises due to the Ukraine and Russia conflict, and lackluster leaders have used it to justify their inability to manage their country's economy effectively. And for the United States, the Southern border imbroglio will remain into 2024 unless something drastic happens to limit the inflow of asylum-seeking migrants.
How pleasant or otherwise 2023 has been will not escape chroniclers' attempts to remember. It is a time like this; people pray that whatever will cause grief should be far away as the year is about to end. People want to celebrate, count blessings, and not grieve. And it was what Thanksgiving afforded the U.S. residents - families coming together from far and wide, celebrating. It is what peace allows against a war situation where people die, and only those who escape by whiskers have reason to.
People will soon gather at Times Square, New York, welcoming another year and defying frigid cold weather, forgetting whatever evil from an outgoing year. Music will rend the air, and dancing in the cold will not be unexpected. It is the joy of heralding another year and marking the escape from the evil of the previous year. It is a global event in all major cities around the world. The ongoing Ukraine war could stop the celebration from 2022 into 2023, and no economic calamity could stop it. The equivalent of the birth pang disappearing after the birth of a new baby.
Many countries will enter the coming year with dire political and economic uncertainty. And Nigerians will tell a story of political uncertainty and economic deprivation just like their counterparts in other countries where leadership is leaders first and citizens last. A new year heralds in countries with bad leaders, but the political and economic situation cancels the joy. Some media commentators remind the public about the financial condition of Jimmy Carter's years in the U.S., but it is a long spell from independence to this day in Nigeria. Many of us need to learn about President Carter's days or what looked like it until the advent of President Joseph Biden. Ronald Reagan helped America put the dire economic condition of Carter's era behind, allowing the Bush senior one-term president, unlike his predecessor, being unlike Reagan. And Bill Clinton left with a beautiful performance report card, save an unsavory development that made him different from Joseph in the scripture.
The Palestinians would never have thought Hamas bringing them into jeopardy going into a new year, nor would Israel have dreamt of any animal defying its national territorial integrity with an unexpected attack in the wee of the night, compelling the country into a defensive war into Gaza. That the attack came from humans capable of thoughts defy reason. Palestinians and supporters want peace, but Israel and supporters say Hamas did not consider peace when it went on an unexpected attack against the Jewish State. When two elephants fight, the ground suffers. Many observers want Palestinians to advance Hama's extermination rather than stop it going into 2024.
How pleasant or otherwise 2023 has been will not escape chroniclers' attempts to remember. It is a time like this; people pray that whatever will cause grief should be far away as the year is about to end. People want to celebrate, count blessings, and not grieve. And it was what Thanksgiving afforded the U.S. residents - families coming together from far and wide, celebrating. It is what peace allows against a war situation where people die, and only those who escape by whiskers have reason to.
People will soon gather at Times Square, New York, welcoming another year and defying frigid cold weather, forgetting whatever evil from an outgoing year. Music will rend the air, and dancing in the cold will not be unexpected. It is the joy of heralding another year and marking the escape from the evil of the previous year. It is a global event in all major cities around the world. The ongoing Ukraine war could stop the celebration from 2022 into 2023, and no economic calamity could stop it. The equivalent of the birth pang disappearing after the birth of a new baby.
Many countries will enter the coming year with dire political and economic uncertainty. And Nigerians will tell a story of political uncertainty and economic deprivation just like their counterparts in other countries where leadership is leaders first and citizens last. A new year heralds in countries with bad leaders, but the political and economic situation cancels the joy. Some media commentators remind the public about the financial condition of Jimmy Carter's years in the U.S., but it is a long spell from independence to this day in Nigeria. Many of us need to learn about President Carter's days or what looked like it until the advent of President Joseph Biden. Ronald Reagan helped America put the dire economic condition of Carter's era behind, allowing the Bush senior one-term president, unlike his predecessor, being unlike Reagan. And Bill Clinton left with a beautiful performance report card, save an unsavory development that made him different from Joseph in the scripture.
The Palestinians would never have thought Hamas bringing them into jeopardy going into a new year, nor would Israel have dreamt of any animal defying its national territorial integrity with an unexpected attack in the wee of the night, compelling the country into a defensive war into Gaza. That the attack came from humans capable of thoughts defy reason. Palestinians and supporters want peace, but Israel and supporters say Hamas did not consider peace when it went on an unexpected attack against the Jewish State. When two elephants fight, the ground suffers. Many observers want Palestinians to advance Hama's extermination rather than stop it going into 2024.
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