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...

Newsweek-Adeboye: Pentecostals

Like witchcraft, Pentecostal beliefs are very appealing because they promise people immediate power and a million dollars. Also, those who are not yet born of the Spirit of the true Jesus and those who are not growing strong in true Christianity, want a god they can see...

Newsweek-Adeboye: Pentecostals

Like witchcraft, Pentecostal beliefs are very appealing because they promise people immediate power and a million dollars. Also, those who are not yet born of the Spirit of the true Jesus and those who are not growing strong in true Christianity, want a god they can see...

Newsweek-Adeboye: Pentecostals

Like witchcraft, Pentecostal beliefs are very appealing because they promise people immediate power and a million dollars. Also, those who are not yet born of the Spirit of the true Jesus and those who are not growing strong in true Christianity, want a god they can see...

The Paradox of Islam

Faith is born of the soul, not of the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly without violence and threats. To convince or convert a soul, one does not need a strong arm or weapon of any kind...

The Hidden Energy

We must in this level of incarnation begin to conjure the great force of nature; we must look beyond the unseen eyes into the heart of all things, into their true meanings. We must unfold the spirit shield covering all things...

The Many Lies of Helen Ukpabio

Helen Ukpabio has gone to town against those she perceived as her enemies. The struggle to cleanse Nigeria of mischievious superstitious beliefs that have perpetually kept us in darkness and such that the likes of Helen has been using to exploit and keep the people in bondage has come under severe attack...

Dewdrops of Memory: Isanlu and the Islam that I knew

The Islam that I knew was already in full swing decades before my head kissed the earth of Isanlu, my home town in Yagba East Local Government Area of Kogi State. As is the case all over Nigeria and Africa, life in Isanlu was suffused in colourful forms of traditional spiritual expression until Christianity arrived...

Dewdrops of Memory: Isanlu and the Islam that I knew

The Islam that I knew was already in full swing decades before my head kissed the earth of Isanlu, my home town in Yagba East Local Government Area of Kogi State. As is the case all over Nigeria and Africa, life in Isanlu was suffused in colourful forms of traditional spiritual expression until Christianity arrived...

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Inside The Thoughts of A Man Who Recently Reunited With His Destiny

It is true I am cunning and ruthless in my dealings with our people, be they civilians, or civic-minded members of the Military. How else is one to ensure obedience, and preserve one's rule? How else is one to deal with opponents who refuse the riches one is willing to bestow them?

To ‘Flush’ or Not To ‘Flush’

From a religious perspective, it is all too easy for us to sit in the comfort of an armchair and place a value on anyone who decides to practice abortion. But abortion is one issue we cannot view with any degree of objectivity using religion or science...

Fela Durotoye: Proudly Nigerian

In a country bedeviled by so many problems, Durotoye is like the proverbial Moses, an unflinching optimist in the power of dreams and vision...

Nigeria and the Kuti Brothers

It is startling to fathom how these brothers led their individual lives, each in his atypical manner, in the bid to change the lot of the ordinary man in Nigeria for the better...

2015 Presidential Election Outcome: A Threat To Nigeria’s Unity In Diversity

Our democracy is being tested. It consistently undergoes constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions. In the process, ideas battles with ideal...

Aaron Ringera and Nuhu Ribadu

The name of the Kenyan counterpart of Nuhu Ribadu is Aaron Ringera. From what we have garnered from press reports, not many Kenyans feel Justice Ringera and his commission are doing much in the quest to make corruption kiss the feet of reasoning...

Osun Government and Politics of Plurality

Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State deserves a pat...

Boko Haram is a Localized Global Phenomenon

Much has been written about the atrocities of Boko Haram and the chain of events that led to the rising of the group in Northern Nigeria. Indeed, the testimony of the Christian Association of Nigeria’s President, Revd.  Oritsajafor at the US Congress early in July 2012 had on display the different theories that have been propounded about Boko Harem and its agents...

For your eyes only: Memo to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

As an introspective person, you have a rare opportunity that Providence grants few in their lifetimes to do well and affect the collective destinies of multitudes of persons. By now, you are inundated by the enormity of the royal mess left behind by your predecessors in office as leaders of Nigeria…

Baba Suwe’s Arrest: the Case for Less Government

A lot has been written and said about the arrest on drug trafficking charges of popular actor and comedian, Omidina Babatunde popular known as Baba Suwe; but little have been said about the uncomfortable reality it exposed of the rights of Nigerians especially in relation to the powers of our government..