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...

Lead Us Into Temptation

Temptations reveal who we truly are as we get stripped to the bare of our hearts with no figs to cover our nakedness. Temptations help us know what stuff we are made of...

My Defence On Non-Violence And Peace – Ahimsa

Be it as it may, if you practice Ahimsa, you should put up with insults, rebukes, criticisms and assaults also. You should never retaliate nor wish to offend anybody even under extreme provocation...

God And His Men

When today’s messengers of God open their mouth to preach to their congregations the word of God how are we to determine that the messages they preach come from the same God that was quoted in the Bible?

Encounter With The Paralytic Preacher!

It was a little after 3.30 am when the host pastor introduced a special guest preacher to mount the pulpit. The pastor in question was in wheel-chair, a disabled man of God...

God to His Children: There is No God

If God ruled the affairs of men and of the state, then Nigeria would have been the most economically, politically and technologically advanced of all...

The Hidden Secrets Of Self-Confidence

Living daily based on the feedback we get from others has never been, and will never be the best deal we can ever get. Depending absolutely on the sensory inputs we get from others is self-limiting and damaging to our inner psyche...

The Hidden Secrets Of Self-Confidence

Living daily based on the feedback we get from others has never been, and will never be the best deal we can ever get. Depending absolutely on the sensory inputs we get from others is self-limiting and damaging to our inner psyche...

The Case for Indecent Dressing

The need to prostrate before an idea, to one vision of perfection, to get addicted to a programmed way of life is the bequest of the Islam and Christianity gripping us till date...

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There Was A Newspaper Called NEXT

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Increasingly loading the country with huge unproductive debts, sooner rather than later, ours will become a junk economy. The danger with the debt-trap is that as soon as a nation is inside, it becomes much easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle...

How the British High Commission Scams Nigerians

The visa process has been turned into a money spinner and a big scam to the detriment of poor Nigerians at the British High Commission...

Nigerians in the Diaspora, Nigeria's Worst Enemies?

Rather than making sweeping remarks at Nigerians in the Diaspora, Nigerian leaders should demonstrate genuine love for our land and our people by talking less and acting more in making life worth living for Nigerians...

Unsafe abortion: Young girls die out of lack of knowledge

Unsafe abortion has lingered as one of the chief factors for the increasing maternal death rate in the country. The level at which unsafe abortion is destroying the lives of young Nigerian women has become a cause for concern...

Kalu and his attitude

Kalu is one great man from whom many people have learned a great attitude from.  Kalu’s always successful outcome could be his attitude at the beginning of any thorny task...

Civil Society Engagement In Nigeria: CONGOs Perspective

In 2010, comrades who were inspired by the quest...

The Royal Wedding: America fought a war to be free of a crown – really?

The Americans fought a war to be rid of the English Crown, their overlords but you would hardly realize it these days not only from the royal wedding-mania that has gripped the former colony but in the many ways that Americans continue to cede supremacy to their former overlords across the big pond...

The Meaning of Being a Genius

Geniuses have no time for sanity. They prefer ideas to normality. They are not of us. They are just en route since they do not belong here. While others are fighting for lands and possessions to stake their claim on earth, geniuses are fighting gravity to capture the skies...

A Battle Cry To Reverse The Poor State Of The Nation – Part 2

For every Northerner occupying a federal government post at any level, there are at least 100 Southerners that are more qualified but are being denied the opportunity...