Faith & Philosophy

All That Jazz About Slashing Hajj Fares   

The recent news on the slashing of hajj fares in Nigeria soured my mood immensely. In a statement from the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria...

The Church of Nigeria Movement: From Midlife Crisis To Afterlife Triumphalism?

For some time now, the defunct Church of Nigeria union of Methodism and Anglicanism has fallen off the radar of importance in Nigerian Christianity....

Nigeria Under The Microscope: Are Christians Being Besieged Or Is This Just Political Noise?

Nigeria once again finds itself in the global spotlight, accused of failing to protect millions of its own citizens. In Washington, Congressman Chris Smith of...

Death, the leveller of men!

In recent times, we've seen the transition of the powerful, but we must not ignore the transition of millions of ordinary people, for their...

Religion as a Tool for Development (2)

The influence of the Beveridge Report can be seen in various initiatives worldwide, including Nigeria's Free Education Programme in Western Nigeria and agricultural programmes...

Religion as a Tool for National Development (1)

The primary focus of every known religion is to lead carnal-minded people to become spiritually minded. It is to enable mortals to rise from...

Gen Z, Religion, and the Morality Question

There is a widening revolution in our world spearheaded by the demographic cohort globally referred to as Gen Z, short for Generation Z. This...

As Pope Francis goes home

The world has paid its respects to Pope Francis. The ‘exequies’, or papal funeral rites, were a fitting tribute to a life of service....

Public Figures and their Fake Easter Messages

Nigerian public figures - politicians, clerics, traditional rulers, heads of parastatals, and sundry persons of self-styled importance, as usual, demonstrated an insincere, perfidious attitude...

Death of the Poor Pontiff Pope Francis

The Vatican shocked the world when it issued the statement that Pope Francis had died, aged 88, at 7:35AM on Easter Monday. Pope Fancis, a...

Nigeria’s Clergy Under Siege: Who Will Save Our Priests?

The brutal murder of Father Sylvester Okechukwu on March 5, 2025, has once again exposed the deadly reality faced by Catholic priests in Nigeria....

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Address to D’Banj’s Kokolettes

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Femi Kuti and the Rocking of D.C.

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Do We Need Any Constitutional Role for Traditional Rulers?

Around the 27th of December 2010, the news media reported the promise by President Goodluck Jonathan to send a Bill to the National Assembly for the purpose of enshrining in the Constitution some role(s) for Nigerian traditional rulers. The debate over the propriety or otherwise of such a constitutional provision has been raging in Nigeria...