Category: Humanities

Dele Farotimi: How a Failed Judiciary Triggered the Nigerian Civil War

Dele Farotimi: How a Failed Judiciary Triggered the Nigerian Civil War By: Deji Yesufu Obafemi Awolowo explains in his writing that British rule was not entirely negative. Before the coming of the white man, for instance, most of Yoruba land...

/ December 13, 2024

Fisayo Soyombo: Dear President Tinubu

Fisayo Soyombo: Dear President Tinubu By: Deji Yesufu My name is Deji Yesufu. I am a Christian missionary and a die-hard lover of Nigeria. Besides who I am and what I do, I have had opportunities to leave this country....

/ December 5, 2024

Marital Conflicts

Marital Conflicts By: Deji Yesufu Femi Morgan published a note on Facebook, where he describes a conflict between a man and his wife. In the note, Morgan narrates overhearing his neighbors arguing, with their young son trying to mediate the...

/ November 16, 2024

JESUS IS KING

Jesus is King! By: Deji Yesufu One of the blessings of planting Providence Reformed Baptist Church Ibadan is having to learn and sing hymns with God’s people. There is this one that opens this way: Rejoice the Lord is King...

/ November 5, 2024

The Househelp and the Rat Poison

The Househelp and the Rat Poison By: Deji Yesufu I saw a video online that is again reporting a house-help poisoning the meal that a family was supposed to eat. This would be the third or fourth video of such...

/ October 22, 2024

Thoughts on Death and Dying

Thoughts on Death and Dying By: Deji Yesufu In February 2024, I did a video titled “A WhatsApp Group of Death”. I had lost a relative and I remember that she had told me before her death that she belonged...

/ October 17, 2024

When Religion Fails the State

When Religion Fails the State By: Deji Yesufu The political crisis in Nigeria during her first republic was based fundamentally on differences in ideological makeup between the leading political figures in Nigeria. The greater divide existed between Ahmadu Bello, the...

/ October 4, 2024

David Oyedepo at 70: What is Nonsensical About This?

David Oyedepo at 70: What is Nonsensical About This? By: Deji Yesufu I could make a living from trolling David Oyedepo, the overall Bishop of Canaanland, Ota, Nigeria. I choose not to because Christian ministry is not always about criticising...

/ September 29, 2024

Obafemi Awolowo’s Twenty Pounds to Biafra

Obafemi Awolowo’s Twenty Pounds to Biafra By: Deji Yesufu A few weeks ago, a Canadian-Nigerian woman, by the name of Amaka Sonnberger, a 46-year-old lady, was seen on social media inciting people of Igbo extraction against Yoruba and Benin people....

/ September 9, 2024

Nigeria: God Feeds the Sparrow

Nigeria: God Feeds the Sparrow By: Deji Yesufu If you are not aware of how difficult things have become in Nigeria, it is probably because you live under a rock – or something like that. Those of us in the...

/ September 6, 2024