Our story as a couple started in 1998 while doing our serving our nation in Gombe State, Nigeria. For us till date, we say there wouldn’t be any meeting point for Tunde and Bridget if not for the compulsory National Youth Service Corps program set up by the Nigerian government as a unifying program for...
Author: Bola Adewara (Bola Adewara)
PROJECT YIGBA: NIGERIAN ELDERS PROFFER NON-VIOLENT ALTERNATIVE TO NATION’S PROBLEM
In an attempt to expound harmony and peaceful alternative to the inflammable attitudes and utterances engulfing the nation, a group of Nigerians under the banner of Burdened Elders of Nigeria, the conveners of the Re-Think Nigeria Platform and Project YIGBA, and a string of other concerned organisations are set to launch Project YIGBA, on Tuesday,...
THE BIRTH OF A NEW NATION – by Ladi Thompson
Until the lions appoint their own historian, the history of the hunt will always favor the hunters …. CHINUA ACHEBE There are 4 basic truths upon which this discourse shall be built, the 1st is that African nations will continue to falter until we understand the power of ideas, ideologies, and ideals. Everything in...
10 BIG SECRETS IN MARRIAGE! – by Olusegun Soleye
Secret 1 Everyone you marry has a weakness. Only God does not have a weakness. So if you focus on your spouse’s weakness you can’t get the best out of his/her strength. Secret 2 Everyone has a dark history. No one is an angel. When you get married or you want to get married, stop...
PREACHERS, DON’T BE ONE SIDED WHEN PREACHING BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES – by Kolade Oseayo Rotimi
Dear pastors, teachers, ministers, apostles, evangelists, etc … When you preach the correct biblical principle of sowing and reaping please balance it with the biblical principle of hard work, diligence and creativity (study Joseph) or else you will be raising a bunch of lazy Christians always expecting manna from heaven._ When you preach the correct...
SOME PASTORS ARE DIFFERENT. BE CAREFUL HOW YOU DEMONISE THEM An example of a GO you know so well – by Bola Adewara
In Nigeria and many parts of the world, some people have come to associate pastoring with hustling. Some people think pastors, especially the GOs of the private churches are about glamour financed from tithes. So many critics of the Church would say the pastors are buying nice clothes, traveling to nice countries, sending their children...
ANGLICAN COMMUNION EXTOLS THE VIRTUES OF BISHOP AWELEWA ADEBIYI
The Bishop of Lagos West Diocese of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, The Rt. Rev. James Odedeji has said the church is building on the foundation laid by the former Bishop of the Church, Bishop Peter Awelewa Adebiyi, who retired in 2013 as the pioneer bishop of the diocese. Odedeji gave the accolade during...
NO ONE DESERVES TO BE HURT! Being hurt is not a pleasant feeling – Austine Alex Emiola
A couple came for counselling and the woman said the husband should be man enough to accept whatever she says because the husband is a man. I asked what the matter was and the man said “She lied and disgraced me in the Church Congregation”. What was the lie? “She said everyone in my family...
TO AVOID HEARTBREAK, ADJUST WHEN CORRECTED – by Austine Alex Emiola
My researches, encounters, experiences and discoveries in the past years of handling relationship and love matters had opened up a lot of heartbreaks to me. The major reason heartbreaks happen is not far-fetched. They are very close to us and are looking us in the eye without blinking. One with a higher percentage...
NOT ALL ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT AGAINST PASTORS ARE TRUE – by Ayo Akerele
“My father sleeps with me” was the music on her lips while she stood before the General Overseer of the ministry. The father who was also a pastor in this same ministry also sat in this disciplinary meeting with the wife and a couple of other people. In utter disbelief at what he was hearing,...









