Attaining World Peace Difficult, Says Ex- Envoy

A erstwhile Nigerian ambassador to Mozambique, with concurrent accreditation to Swaziland, Madagascar and Mauritius, Albert Omotayo, has reflected connected the authorities of the satellite and concluded that satellite bid whitethorn beryllium unattainable anytime soon.

Omotayo stated this successful his lecture, “God, Philosophy and World Peace”, delivered arsenic portion of the activities marking the 2025 International Day of Peace, organised by the African School of Economics (The Pan-African University of Excellence), Abuja.

He said 1 crushed for the prevalence of warfare contiguous is quality beings’ nonaccomplishment to recognise however they got to the world.

He noted that, “ erstwhile antheral archetypal appeared connected earth, helium was baffled by the expanse of each what helium saw but didn’t understand. He past realised the request to combat to warrant his survival.

“Long aft helium had survived, helium thought of flourishing arsenic well. This decision, astir probably, was the opening of man’s irreversible, eternal destiny of endless conflict oregon fight, for endurance and flourishing.”

According to him with much radical connected world and their inherited content that they indispensable conflict for endurance and flourishing came competition.

He added that, “ Their conflict yet gave commencement to desires, interests, clashes of interest, adventure, goal-setting, improvement of instruments for easier and faster means of struggle, much effectual ways of expanding and preserving gains, ownership, friendship, envy, enmity, alliances, greed and others successful bid to consolidate and prolong their endurance and flourishing connected earth. “

Omotayo lamented the atrocities unfolding successful Gaza and Ukraine arsenic good arsenic the insecurity successful Nigeria and attributed the unit to the content successful struggle, dominance and flourishing astatine the disbursal of others.
He noted that chaos has afflicted antheral since the opening of clip and that curing it cannot beryllium achieved wrong a predictable timeframe.

He recommended that individuals and societies should characteristically practise forgiveness erstwhile they autumn beneath 1 another’s modular and that radical should fto emotion motivate and signifier their enactment to others.

Earlier, successful his address, titled “A World Without War”, the vice chancellor of the university, Prof. Mahfouz Adedimeji, had observed that against the rationale down the constitution of the planetary strategy represented by the United Nations, chaos is progressively becoming the caller satellite order.

He decried the regression of humanity and compassion and drew attraction to the indifference to the genocide committed against the Palestinians successful Gaza.

He expressed the anticipation that determination would beryllium bid 1 time and that quality beings should ideate a satellite without war, noting that, “Pablo Picasso said that everything you tin ideate is existent arsenic imaginativeness tin instrumentality 1 everywhere.”

In their goodwill messages, the adjunct commandant of Corps of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps( NSCDC) , Raymond Yusuf, and the laminitis of Path to Peace Foundation, Mr Abubakar Akande, appreciated the African School of Economics for its nationalist engagement and pledged their enactment to the assemblage successful its bid advocacy and developmental initiatives for the betterment of the nine and humanity astatine large.

They noted that this year’s Peace Day theme, “Act Now For A Peaceful World”, is simply a clarion telephone and an urgent connection for everyone to clasp bid and practice and shun unit and war.