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...

CNN God’s Warriors: The Intersection of Religion and Politics

God's Warriors, the documentary premiered by CNN last month, when viewed in the Nigerian context, provides some deep lessons on the relationship that exists among the faiths and the role religion has continued to play in our socio-political life...

Between Evangelical Opportunists and Opportunism

Religion, like politics, is an effective powerful weapon of social control. For good or bad it has transformed individual societies and shaped the faith of man towards divinity...

The Purpose of our Existence Here and Hereafter

In life three vices stand out as the 'undoing' of men. From generations men are known to be addicted or passionate for one of these three 'great evils' - smoking, drinking or womanising...

World Ablaze

What is most surprising and should form the crux of this piece is that those who profess the Christian faith with a puff of the chest, were the direct culprits who threw the stones...

The Mountains and Hills of Life

When translated into life situations, those who attempt the mountains have inadvertently conquered the fear of failure which hold back many of us from fulfilling our true potentials...

God Is With You

I now recognize that truly circumstances only act to make us forget that God had promised to be with us always. We often get consumed as well as discomfited by the events happening around us...

Does Religion Necessarily Liberate?

I do spirituality but for a kaleidoscope of reasons I find religion confusing, confining, limiting, and in a lot of ways, contradictory...

The Rape of Innocence…

Since we don't have the jurisdiction to summon God to a human court to answer to charges of neglect, of atrocities committed against humanity by fellow humans, what should an individual who has lost his/her innocence do to live right again...

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Don't Run, Obasanjo

What merits Obasanjo's return to power? His clever way of deceiving the nation that he is going abroad to get foreign investors, while he is after his estacodes?

The Leadership Newspaper Vs. Reuben Abati

These days, I get easily angered by events happening in Nigeria. But probably nothing has riled me more than the latest garbage that emanated from the warped orifice of Reuben Abati, GEJ’s special adviser on media and publicity...

The End of the reign of Nebuchadnezzars in World  Politics

Two significant events have happened in the last few weeks in Nigeria, which are signs of hope; the signing by President Jonathan of the Freedom of Information Act. Secondly, the successful outing of the Green Eagles against Argentina...

The Bobrisky Prison Saga – Why an Investigation is Crucial for Justice

The six-month jail term of popular cross-dresser Idris Okuneye,...

How Long Will Buhari’s Intoxicant Work?

Strange and worrisome as the decision by the Buhari...

2015: The Nigerian tragicomedy

The registration of a coalition of Nigerian political parties signals a dramatic turn in the politics of business as usual, of no vacancy in Aso Rock, of brutal imposition of subjective choice, rigging elections and of Supreme Court enthronement of persons...

Abuja Opera 2009 and the Wait for the Special Guest of Honour

Barring the lateness of the Special Guest of Honour, Operabuja 2009 lived up to its high billing and once again satisfied the longings of many who have had enough of comedy shows and music concerts where DJs helped artists to mime their songs...

Once Upon So Many Decades

Let me tell you of a time when pupils knew all the names of the administrators, ministers, commissioners, president and prime-ministers and other government officials. We could tell the number of Local Government Areas in the whole country. We crammed prominent dates and names. We knew our Civics. We could recite verses from Chaucer...