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...

Gospel of Wickedness – The Hypocrisy and Falsehood of Helen Ukpabio – Part 2

That Helen’s films were approved by the Nigerian Censorship Board did not imply that such films were healthy for public consumption. We are all too aware of the arm-twisting tactics of Helen in ensuring that her tainted films get the required approval...

Sex Abuses: Imagine If the Abuses Were by Imams, Muslims?

The pope and the Catholic Church have resorted to blaming the victims and the critics who have expressed appropriate indignation over the sex crimes against children, an abomination and sin in any religion...

This Pope Has Fallen! Pope Benedict XVI Should Resign

Pope Benedict XVI should resign now, or he must endure squirms of contempt from the whole world over this unfolding pandemic of sex abuse by Catholic Church priests...

Gospel of Wickedness – The Hypocrisy and Falsehood of Helen Ukpabio – Part 1

The intransigence of Helen Ukpabio seems to have no bounds and I feel compelled to make this submission to further expose the hypocrisy of this woman of little mind...

Pope Benedict XVI Lacks Moral Authority to Sanctimony

Pope Benedict XVI and the hierarchy of the Catholic Church deserve worldwide condemnation for failure and wanton neglect to act, again, and again and again in connection with the pandemic of sex abuses and molestations of children...

Muslims giving Islam a bad name

What is rampant in Nigeria today are major cases reminiscent of the kind of ethnic cleansing that took place in Burundi, the Sudan and in Kosovo. Usually disguised as tribal cases of intolerance, it is becoming clear that these are brazen acts of terror directed at Christians from their Muslims brothers...

The End Time Turbulence: Jesus Is Coming Soon

The Euro-American way of life is terrifying with horrible reports on CNN of gruesome murders, assassinations and brutalities. Is this the culture, the Iraqis, Afghans and the rest of us are to embrace when democracies are finally established in those nations?

Is religion good for the next generation?

A young lady once told me she had not gone home for 10 years because her pastor accused her of witchcraft and her family threatened to kill her...

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Hey Jonathan, the trick is in the SNC!

The collective unconscious of the conservative, hegemonic North, to paraphrase Carl Jung, is to collectively destroy the chances of President Goodluck Jonathan’s victory in the coming presidential poll...

2015: The Die is cast and the Time is fast. Jonathan’s Universe of the Turning Wheel (2)

Since 1960, Nigeria has gone full circle. From coup d’états to relay military autocracies, to arrangee presidential impositions, rigged elections, Supreme Court awards to failed candidates, political fractiousness to fragmentations, to fermentations, to decay...

Date Me Jeje, Date Me Tender

I have never, ever been on a date.  For someone who can describe a perfect date even while in the middle of REM sleep, it is rather appalling that I have never, ever been on a date...

Let My People Go! Ending the Impunities of the PDP Era

The dust is finally settling on a new reality...

Musings of a Bachelor…

Getting hitched has never solved anybody's problems. In fact, marriage increases a man's troubles and problems and frustrations and responsibilities...

Could Orji Kalu Be An Agent Of The CIA?

Are we to understand that Kalu is dearer to the White House than the other former governors arrested along with Kalu for the same offence? If yes, then why?

The Persistence of Military Dominance: Russia’s 21st-Century Power Play

In an era characterized by technological advancement and global...

Murder In The Name Of Justice

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The Tragedy of Greed and Corruption: The Pain and Grievances of the Ijaws

What is happening in the Niger Delta is the product of several decades of neglect and abandonment, of institutional and systemic corruption, of failure in leadership and of a country and a government that would not listen to the cries and pleas of a thoroughly marginalized people...

Maximising The Agricultural Sector Through ICTs

The use of Information and Communication Technology in the agricultural business is gaining momentum in Nigeria with many farmers becoming aware of its importance, and consequently creating an enabling situation to maximise the advantages accruing from the scheme...