If government decides to negotiate with bandits and pay them off with the hope that such an ill-advised move will stem the scourge of hostage-taking, rape, cold-blooded murders and wanton spread of terror and destruction of property, then we should probably, in penitence, visit the graves of executed armed robbers — including ‘Dr’ Ishola Oyenusi, Monday Read More…
“Girls are pearls, ladies are rubies, mothers are moulders, and women are wonderful”, says Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha of the female gender. Angela Dorothea Merkel (Nee Kasner) is all these and more. The most powerful woman in Europe who takes a glorious bow out of office soon has taught the world that you don’t have to Read More…
Text: Luke 1:5-25 Picture this: You and your spouse are very old. Possibly in your 70s. Both from a priestly family. You have carefully obeyed all of God’s commands and regulations all your life. And in God’s eyes, you are a righteous couple. And you are childless. Because the wife is unable to conceive. Then Read More…
Text: Luke 1:5-38 A few months ago, we marked Nigeria’s 60th Independence Anniversary. Many celebrated. Many did not. For various reasons. What relevance does this have for us as we re-learn Jesus? Last week, we looked at how some of the prophecies dating back from the fall of man in the Garden of Eden and Read More…
Democracy is good. Insecurity is bad. Democratisation of insecurity is totally undesirable. Those are the truths on which I stand today as I ruminate over the gradual transmogrification of the southwestern part of Nigeria from a peaceful centre of commerce and culture to a killing field where untold savagery has become a handmaiden of daily Read More…
THE United States President, Joe Biden’s appointment of three young Nigerians into his cabinet is replete with lessons, not just for Nigeria, but for the entire African continent. Biden first appointed 39-year-old Adewale Adeyemo, who was the first President of the Obama Foundation, as United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. Next, Biden appointed 26-year-old Read More…
Text: Matthew 1:1-17; Luke 3:23b-38; Luke 1:26-35 Genealogies. Blah. Boring. You start reading these verses and you begin to doze off. Or do you? We said 24 verses but for the sake of seeing how these genealogies tie together, we will also look at who Jesus is according to the angel Gabriel. Matthew and Luke Read More…
“I’ve battled with depression for seven years, and now that battle is over. I couldn’t continue to live the way I did, and make the same bad choices all over again. The noise got too loud, but now the noise can stop. “I didn’t send my mum a note because I couldn’t bear to. If Read More…
Text: Mark 1:1a; Luke 1:1-4; John 1:1-18 The story of Jesus is Good News for all people – for all races, ages, nations. He is the Messiah ( Mashiach in Hebrew) – God’s Anointed One – Christos (Greek) – The Chosen One. The Son of God. (see Mark 1:1a). This was a momentous declaration from Read More…
“I, Brigadier-General Donald J. Trump, on behalf of the megalomaniac forces of the Republican Party hereby decree a suspension of the Constitution of the United States and the annulment of the presidential elections which returned one Joe Biden as elected. “All land, sea, underground and oversea borders are hereby closed with immediate effect. All legislators Read More…