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Nigeria: Caught Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Nigeria: Caught Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea By: Seun Addie A Yoruba saying that seems apt for this season in the life of Nigeria: “Oba ran ni nise, odo oba kun. Ise Oba, ko se ko; odo...
Why is Nigeria poor and backward if prayers work?
Why is Nigeria poor and backward if prayers work? By Julius Ogunro The other day, my friend and I were having a conversation in my living room. This friend is a spirit-filled Christian, as charismatics as they come. He was...
Memories of Christmas – Bukunmi Kolade
Memories of Christmas By: Bukunmi Kolade Christmas is here again. It is that time of the year, no one can ignore. It is there in the sights, in the sounds, in the media, in the excitement and for me in...
“We are Guilty” – Seun Addie
What Christians Can Learn from Jews by: Seun Addie A few years ago, I came across a video clip of Nethanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, reeling out the inventions of Israeli scientists, from extracting water from air, to breakthroughs in...
Why Jesus Could Not Do Many Miracles in Nazareth
Why Jesus Could Not Do Many Miracles in Nazareth By: Peter Uka The ProblemJust over a week ago I saw a friend’s WhatsApp status which stated: “the limitations in a man’s mind can overrule God’s plans for him.” A hardcore...
Why Jesus Could Not Do Many Miracles in Nazareth (II)
Why Jesus Could Not Do Many Miracles in Nazareth (II) By: Peter Uka What the verse does not mean So, the verse cannot mean that the people of Nazareth had come to Jesus in droves as usual, waited in line...
The President Is A Sick Man
The President Is A Sick Man: Buharis’ secret surgeries inside Oneida yacht By: Festus AdedayoThe President Is A Sick Man is the title of a book written by Philadelphia-born award-winning American journalist, Matthew Algeo. It is a chronology of the medical travails...
Why Pombe Magufuli Can Never Grow on Nigerian Soil
Why Pombe Magufuli can never grow on Nigerian soil By: Festus Adedayo Statesman and late President of Senegal from 1960 to 1981, Leopold Sedar Senghor, through his philosophy of negritude, believed that Africa and its culture had manifest contributions they can...
Monguno’s Missing $1 billion: Fraud or Freudian slip?
Monguno’s Missing $1 billion: Fraud or Freudian slip?By: Festus AdedayoUnbeknown to many Nigerians who haven’t heard him speak, Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd), President Muhammadu Buhari’s National Security Adviser (NSA) secretly admires self-styled Mr. Bombastic, Jamaican–American reggae musician, singer and Disc Jockey, Orville Richard Burrel, better...