Tag: Nigeria
A Call for Discernment: A Response to Biodun Shotola and Deji Yesufu
A Call for Discernment: A Response to Biodun Shotola and Deji Yesufu “The wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.” – cf. James 3:17 As followers...
What is Edmund Obilo Doing?
What is Edmund Obilo Doing? By: Deji Yesufu Thanks to the holidays, and Christmas, I have been forced out of solitude. The Seyi Makinde government has made driving a lot easier in central Ibadan, having embarked on a massive road...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
The Abel Damina Question
The Abel Damina Question By: Deji Yesufu The million-dollar question on Abel Damina’s neck is this: is he a false teacher, a heretic, or a God-sent reformer of our day? When the Protestant Reformation began in earnest in the 16th...
A GRACIOUS PERSPECTIVE ON ABEL DAMINA
A GRACIOUS PERSPECTIVE ON ABEL DAMINA Introduction My name is Deji Yesufu. I pastor Providence Reformed Baptist Church Ibadan. I was ordained to ministry last year by the Rev. Dr. Aniekan Ekpo, who pastors Christ’s Reformed Baptist Church, in Rumuodara,...
IN DIRE NEED – A Review
IN DIRE NEED - A Review By: Moses Jesutola In Dire Need by Mustard Omachoko Idoko is a book which underlines the critical problem that the nation of Nigeria has been facing from a long time ago. The poems which...