My gaze settled on him while he was expounding on the security situation in Nigeria and I just marvelled at the acuity of his cogitations and the precision of his delivery, taking note of his frail frame and the fact that the ravages of time had deepened since our last meeting. We were at a...
A glorious seed was planted on the 15th of June 2021 at the Shell Hall of the Muson Center in Nigeria. The seedlings of that event were supplied by men like W.E.B. Dubois, Kwame Nkrumah, Steve Biko, Walter Rodney, Nelson Mandela, Angela Davis, and a long line of heroes of African extraction that time and...
An epoch event it was on Saturday, June 19th, 2021 when generals of the Pentecostal Christian faith gathered at Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos Nigeria to raise fund to give a befitting secretariat to the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Lagos State. At the event, Pastor W. F. Kumuyi, the General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life...
A review of our political history will show a gradual erosion of reasoning and intellectual discourse in our political dialogue, leading to a decline in our practice of politics. The debates and well-reasoned papers, in the beginning, have given way to insults and violence in word and act. The present security drift of our nation...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...