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...

When to Christianize and When Not to Islamize Nigeria

There's no doubt to the fact that religion and politics are like Siamese twins in Nigeria as far as politics is concerned, even though...

Heaven and how to get there

                      Heaven, O sublime home of all purity, That which Satan and his crew emptied; And now ever admitting mortals By the Way of Christ’s Cross! Heaven, O how...

Hope for a Hopeless Generation

The worldly hope men set their hearts upon turns to ashes -Omar Khayan I wait for the lord, my soul does wait, and in his word...

Musings on Love

Love your enemies  -- Matthew 5:4 Man is a social animal who dislikes his fellow man   --Eugene Delacroix   The Christmas season is here again, and just...

Mercantilist Christianity

The yuletide is upon us again. It is that time of the year when both true and copycat Christians traditionally assemble to celebrate the...

Religion and the Oneness of God

Our bread and water are of one table:  the progeny of Adam are as a single soul. -Muhammad Iqbal Religion can be defined as man’s...

Of Pseudo Religion and Crass Politics

The contents of this piece are bound to elicit plethora of harsh reactions from some holier-than-though ones among us; the highly religious, but less spiritual, fanatical adherents of the several religious bodies in Nigeria, most especially some know-it-all arrowheads of the two major religions - Christianity and Islam – and their largely ignorant disciples...

Evangelical Rascality and the Fallacy of Faith Apologetics in Nigeria

One of the cardinal issues strangulating religious harmony in Nigeria is the deliberate and sometimes ignorance-propelled fanaticism that has eaten deep into the psyche of some faithful both within Christendom and Islam, the two major religions in Nigeria...

Don't miss

Edo State Ministry of Education Eyesore

https://youtu.be/mkiLjkE_pRo

An Evening with Chris Gardner In Abuja

Chris Gardner warns that unemployment and lack of money are a major threat that make people break their marriage vows. It's as though 'love is not enough' when marriage and raising a family is concerned...

The Return of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu

Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the one time strongman of the financial crime buster EFCC, who sneaked out of Nigeria into self-imposed exile some eighteen months ago in the face of apparent persecution, breezed back into the country recently, a rehabilitated man...

Has The Image Of Our Women Public Officers Been Dented?

The reported case of financial misdemeanor on the part of  Prof. Grange need to be handled swiftly. Like Patricia Olubunmi-Ette, Adenike Grange is on her own. They neither represent the best of the Nigerian women public office holders nor their demography...

What if Ribadu Leaves the EFCC?

One can hardly hold such an office as Ribadu has held for the past five years, without stepping on some “powerful” toes big time...

When ‘Development’ Is Not Enough…

The April 2015 elections are just around the corner. Without a shade of doubt, one of the issues that would form and inform the choice of who to vote for, and who not to vote for, would be the question of development...

Sixty Songs for Igwebike Ifeanyi Mbanefo

Today belongs to the song of solitude. The date...

Politics Of School Reform In Nigeria: Informing Dr. Igwe Aja-Nwachukwu’s Vision For Education In Nigeria

Those individuals who believe that education is the key to improving the quality of life and the social class, have argued perpetually that the current system of education in Nigeria needs to be reformed...

Have We Been Here Before?

If the state elects to break the law, the citizenry, in who resides the ultimate sovereignty, is being implicitly invited to break the law. Civil society has been shown by example, that the law exists not to sustain society...

Ngozi the Commissioner Spells Education

The student was different. She exuded confidence that seized the...