Thanksgiving Service Episode 3: “He Used His Thing to Put the Oil Inside Me”

“When we entered the altar place,” she began “Pastor Edwin asked me to wait for him in one room. The room resemble office but now look like self-contain apartment because parlour chair, bed and small wardrobe was there.” She pushed beyond the limitations of her fluency to paint a clearer picture. “Mhm?” I followed. “After some time, he came inside the room and said that God show him something.” A reckless driver I had been...

What has age got to do with the success or failure of leaders? There is this perception that having younger leaders might bring about the needed change. Here are a few reflections about the misconception between age and leadership. ____________ Leadership in Africa as a continent has dwindled so badly. In fact, some confused thinkers and career motivational speakers are now importing all sorts of unverified theories to justify decades of leadership woes that are...

Amotekun Corps Rescue Nine Kidnap Victims in Osun State.

Operatives of the Western Nigeria Security Network, WNSN, popularly called Amotekun Corps, have rescued nine kidnap victims including two toddlers in Osun State. The victims were rescued by the joint team of Amotekun in Ondo and Osun states involved in the inter-border patrol in the southwest. It was learnt that the victims were kidnapped at the Ipetumodu axis of the state along the Ilesha-Akure highway while on their way from Lagos to Ado-Ekiti. The victims,...

Play Politics With Decorum -Bishop Stephen Dami Mamza appeals to Politicians

The Adamawa State Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria, (CAN) Bishop Stephen Dami Mamza has enjoined politicians to play the game of politics with decorum ahead of 2023 general elections in the country. Mamza in his Christmas message/mass celebration held at Saint Theresa cathedral Jimeta, noted that the country is passing through a trying moment with insecurity in some parts of the country. “God is aware of the challenges bedeviling the country as life is...

Barbed Oddities of the Conformist

To dance another’s dance steps is to deprive your soul its freedom of expression. To think another’s thought is to suffocate the elasticity of your mind. To embrace war without defence is to dig a self-made grave. To fume anger without understanding is to get burnt with strange fire. To expect a harvest different from its seed is to nurture the weed of disappointment. To compare oneself to another is to fix round pegs into...

President Buhari’s 79th Birthday and Reno Omokri’s ‘Reap-What-You-Sow’ Wishes

The President of Nigeria, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Friday, 17th December, 2021, marked his 79th birthday in Istanbul, Turkey. He was surprised with a cake by some Nigerian delegates who chorused “Happy birthday, Mr. President,” on sighting him. The President as quoted by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said, “I thought that being away from Abuja, I will escape these things. The Guards Brigade had written to tell...

Your Next Home? Yes, It Is Better to Buy Than Build ―Just Ask Me Why?

Last week, I addressed a group of prospective home-buyers about the plain psychology of buying a house and how it engenders our lives. Your home is not necessarily the structure of the building but an abode that gives you that natural feeling, a sense of belonging that yes, this is mine. There is always an emotional calmness the moment you walk through the door, drop down on your couch, breathe a sigh of relief, and...

Manchin and Senema ―America’s Democracy Is Threatened by Two Sorry Obstructionists

The earth would eventually succumb to the decimation of its lands and waters if the trend continued with no checks in place to stop it. ―Don Okolo Sorry, dear Readers. It appeared as if I took a sabbatical. Only I didn’t. I was here all along bemoaning the coming of the end of a once-great nation. Rome fell. The Great kingdoms of Sparta, Persia, and Babylonia, all fell, knee-capped by intransigence and arrogance. I had...

Thanksgiving Service Episode 1: “My Little Man With A Mind Of His Own”

It was the end of the year thanksgiving service- usually the longest church service we have in a year. Different heads and departments would dance respectively to the altar with a crowd of members or visitors accompanying them- Daddy/Mummy G.O and family, pastors, choir department, ushers, intercessors, and even individuals who had booked their special thanksgiving session, prior. At some point, I got exhausted from the hailing and periodic scream inspired in the congregation by...

The Endsars Movement May Not Be Relevant  At the End

“Social change is political by its very nature and you cannot make social change without politics. ” ―Ebuka Onyekwelu The Endsars movement is now making its second strategic and fundamental error, which will ultimately result in the group gaining almost nothing from its struggle. The first error was its demand for too much sudden change at the same time and now, it is making its second costly error, though, for the most part, it is...

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