A Step Towards Victory, By Femi Fani-Kayode
The good news is that a ceasefire has been announced between the Federal Government and Boko Haram and the girls may well be released very soon. This came as a consequence of the fact that the Nigerian military finally managed to acquire the weapons that they so badly needed to…
The President Nigeria Needs In 2015, By Idongesit Mbat
In every democratic state, a time comes when citizens file out to elect their president. Come 2015, all things being equal, this democratic ritual will take place in Nigeria. Nigerians and the rest of the world have expressed both hopes and fears for 2015. Many predictions have also been made…
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Nigerian Presidency and Its Defence of Ayo Oritsejafor, By Adeolu Ademoyo
On Sunday October 12, 2014 more than a month after the CAN’s president and founder of The World of Life Bible Church, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor’s private jet was involved in the illegal transfer of $ to South Africa, the Nigerian presidency sent its Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Mr.…
“It Is Practiced In The Church” Does Not Make It Godly [2], By Frederick Adetiba
Find the Part 1 here The feet washing exercise conducted by Jesus Christ was meant to demonstrate to us how to lead as Kingdom people. Unfortunately, we have left the essence of that exercise and embraced the actual practice for our own different reasons. From my experience, the reason given…
Should Christians fight wars?, By Femi Aribisala
Christians claim to be followers of Jesus, but deny him at every turn. We don’t do what he asks us to do; but we do what he tells us not to do. We talk Jesus but contradict him at every turn. We call Jesus our Good Shepherd, but refuse to…
Arrested For Feeding The Widows and Orphans, By Stephen Davis
It is now well known that I have been working for the release of the Chibok girls and the other at least 300 girls who have been captured by Boko Haram in this last 12 months. I have visited many villages and towns attacked by Boko Haram, I have seen…
“Ibo Made,” By Pius Adesanmi
(This short piece was first written in 2006, long before I started this column. I am republishing it now because too many of my friends have been asking for it lately; because nothing has changed…) Growing up in the 70s and 80s in Isanlu, an Okun town in the old…
Overstaying in the Boys’ Quarters of Power, By Gimba Kakanda
Very few history textbooks are as depressing as the records of Nigeria's transition from a young independent nation to this pseudo-democratic chaos that is the product of half a century of conflicts of interests among the ruling elite. In their construction of this entity with the bricks of the very…
Islam And Planning, By Imam Murtadha Gusau
In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy Alhamdulillah, indeed, all praise is due to Allah. We praise Him and seek His help and forgiveness. We seek refuge with Allah from our soul’s evils and our wrong doings. He whom Allah guides, no one can misguide;…
Nigeria’s New Era in Political Corruption, By Erasmus Ikhide
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan - most recently - has been laureled by an emotive media enthusiast. Prof Femi Aribisala has garbed him with borrowed robes as the long awaited Messiah. Characters like Aribisala and other social predators-in-chief are unwilling to let Nigerians into the stinking vouch of president Jonathan arc. But…
