By Abdu Rafiu Many people, troubled seeing the ravages the monster called COVID-19 has been unleashing in various countries of the world, are throwing up their hands in resignation, understandably asking: “What’s all this about? Is there never going to be an end to all the waves of afflictions which assail humanity unceasingly? Is there […]
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By Kemi Ajiboye Easter is a time of reflection and joy, a time of RESURRECTION when we leap into a new way of thinking, a time when we emerge from our cocoon of doubt to fly freely on the wings of faith. “Easter is a time of renewal, a time to reveal the contents of […]
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By Abdu Rafiu Here comes yet another Easter, the season of awakening. It is a period the temperate regions move away from the squeezing cold and other wintery months features such as snow and blizzards, and the attendant slumber; and the tropical world moving away from enervating hot weather – from heat, and dust outside the […]
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By Olanrewaju Akinfenwa Permit me to take a peep into your environment, our environment. What do we see? There is nothing but failure of mankind all over the place. Earthly power has failed, science is failing. Religion has failed, cynicism has failed, bold face has failed, human knowledge has failed, and money will eventually fail. […]
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By Abdu Rafiu The talk about Coronavirus which has hit the world below the belt is what fills airwaves by the minute, by the hour and every day, whether here in our country or overseas. Newspapers are in the forefront. There is updating of reports by digital publications on the ravaging ruthless pathogen by the […]
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By Abdu Rafiu Three subjects have dominated headlines in our country in the last few days, about 10 days now. These are the bombshell dethronement of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as Emir of the revered throne of Kano, the devastating Lagos explosion which rocked Abule Ado close to Festac Town, and the Coronavirus pandemic. The explosion […]
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By Sola Adeyegbe This is the continuation of an earlier essay that invited us to measure our faith by Mathew Chapter 5. We now proceed to Matthew Chapter 6. Maybe we will also learn something here as well. 1. Have you been taught to pray with many words or repetitive words some of which you […]
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By Joba Akinpelu For I the LORD your God I am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.(Exodus 20:5 RVS). This verse has brought many a disquiet, many a worry, and many an anxiety. Yet, there is absolutely […]
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By Akinpelu Olujoba “But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”(Matthew 4:4) With these words Jesus sternly rebuffed the Tempter, Lucifer! After baptism in the Jordan, the bandages fell from the eye of the Christ. He […]
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By Abdu Rafiu Among reporters of his generation, he was the “primus inter pares,” the first among equals. Whether in diligence, application to duty, indeed unremitted commitment, he was in the forefront. He was daring and he was brave. I am referring to no other than Olusegun Osoba. It is not for nothing that he was […]
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