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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THE NIGERIAN FRONT: Mr. President and the Courage of his Convictions

The recent silence from the front has been based on one consideration, the appropriateness of providing space for the President to consider the road map we have previously published...

On, The Strong Breed

Soyinka is Africa’s legendary intellectual but never before has he himself documented such large claims for his moral pre-eminence, his exemplary fulfilment of the intellectual’s mission in the African society as its representative, its curator of memory, its specialist of consciousness, and its looming conscience...

I Don’t Expect You To Understand My Pain! I Don’t Really Care If You Don’t

I have said hello to someone today, and had to say goodbye the next day. It’s always the same painful feeling as I see their bodies in huge coffins buried in the dirt. They tell me strangers took them away, and these strangers have names...

The $67 Billion Foreign Reserves Legacy (2)

By the time the ravaging global liquidity crush, which started on Wall Street in September 2008, was over, Nigeria's own version of the financial fiasco couldn't be more dramatic. Dropping from N13.5 trillion to N4.6 trillion, the country's stock market had lost a monstrous N8.9trillion...

2007 Trial Balloons

Since 1993 what has IBB done to improve himself? Did he go back to school? Has he now got any training in Economics, a Law degree, MBA in Management or other training to convince us that he has now mastered new models and systems to enable him fit into the 21st Century? At least OBJ went to jail. Is IBB the role model I want my son to emulate?

The Shame Of A Nation

There are professors and there are ‘professors’. Can some one please tell me what Maurice Iwu is still professing at the INEC? I am really shocked by this man’s vaulting ambition…

Between Democracy Development: What Gives?

In Nigeria, one with the benefit of hindsight may realize the missed opportunities in 1960, 1979, 1993 and 1999 to do the proper thing and bequeath to our country a limited but expandable form of democracy...

As Corruption Deepens, EFCC Chases Rat In Imo State

Last week, Transparency International, the global anti-corruption watchdog released its ranking of world corruption among countries. Nigeria was ranked the 25th most corrupt nation on earth...

Nigerian Style Of Football

We played the game. It entailed any number of...

Fraud Through the Church

For the past two days, I have had pure rage pouring out of me to the point where it was on the borderline of hatred!  I know an Evangelist should not feel this way, but I do.  Only yesterday I broke down crying before God...