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...

Tithing, Hijab, Nations and the Psychology of My Fellow Nigerians!!!

Professor Pius Adesanmi accurately espoused in one of his ace articles that a Nigerian psychology is his/her deadliest enemy; rewire the already wired psychology,...

Time to Reorder Nigerian Religious Values and Beliefs

The wind of change blowing on the religious firmament and the realm of individual consciousness in Nigeria is a welcome development. The advent and...

The Jewish Love of Learning

For my people are destroyed from a lack of knowledge (Hosea 4: 6) Jewish history is world heritage. Although religion is a controversial topic today,...

The Power of the Written Word

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write – Martin Luther Today is D-day: when I take a break from...

For God Loves a Cheerful Giver

Envy is toxic. There are things I love about the Christian Holy Bible, and that includes its poignant analysis of the folly of mankind,...

Religion Nigeriana

The approach of many a Nigerian to religion is sometimes nothing but polymorphous perversity, if I could borrow Freud. Examples would bring this home to...

Marx borrowed a Christian doctrine and made it Socialist

One of the things that astonished me when I came to study first in the "bible belt" was discovering that there were many self-proclaimed...

Be at peace with all people

Our actions may have far-reaching consequences in time beyond our time on earth. Oftentimes, so does our inaction. Consequently, we may benefit from actions...

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Creation, True Science versus Evolution (5): The Bible and Civilisation

Science that has the Bible as compass and anchor is the science that has served the world. At the end of the day true science would have purposefully or inadvertently fallen in line with The Book to drive society positively forward...

The Existential Threat of Britain’s Exit of the European Union

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Ese Walters And Her Pastor Boyfriend

Before I address the Ese Walter affair, let me first say that church goers today really do not understand what the church is. The church is not a place for only good people...

‘One Nigeria’: To Be Or Not To Be? (3)

The only way to put a stop to the squandering of our resources is to break away from the North and concentrate all our resources exclusively on our own development...

Nigeria 2006: Cataclysmic Predictions

I have no clairvoyant ability. No one does. Psychic and related “abilities” are all bull. No one really knows what tomorrow holds. All we can do is observe, poke the data, mix-and-match, and hedge our bets. And that’s exactly what I am about to do...

The Igbo, Goodluck and the Ides of April 9

The Igbo have come out to state their support for Jonathan. The apex Igbo organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has officially endorsed Jonathan. They don’t have much option anyway. The other candidates have not endeared themselves to the Igbo...

Lovers Behaving Badly

My addiction to the personal computer and the internet has often made me to wonder if I could have coped and managed in another age and time...