By TIM AKANO
Let’s begin today’s discourse with a sexy but philosophical quiz. Which of the following best describes the meaning of life?
(a) Life is a battle
(b) Life is a mystery
(c) Life is a stage
(d) Life is a game
(e) ...
A homily preached by Rev. Fr. Emeka Ngwoke* at the funeral Mass of Chief the Hon. Cletus Ugwutikiri Opata, KSM, JP (1926--2021), at FGGC, Lejja, on Saturday, November 27, 2021
None of us lives to himself, and none of us...
By ANIEBO NWAMU
Your health condition in the last few years got us worried. But when I visited you last, I was not alarmed because I saw a truly satisfied man who had lived life to the fullest. I knew...
Kenule Saro-Wiwa, a writer and Ogoni environmental activist, made a prophetic speech during a trial of him and eight of his Ogoni kinsmen (“Ogoni 9”) by a kangaroo court (tribunal) in Port Harcourt. They were thereafter found guilty of...
He was among
evangelical leaders who laid hands upon and prayed over President Donald Trump
in the Oval Office in 2017, dedicated most of his Sunday sermon to
mocking fears about the spread of the coronavirus and calling it a “phantom
plague” designed...
By BERNARD-HENRI LEVY/Wall Street Journal
Fulani raiders ‘are Islamic extremists of a new stripe,
more or less linked with Boko Haram,’ but present throughout Nigeria
A slow-motion war is under way in
Africa’s most populous country. It’s a massacre of Christians, massive...
By ABDULLAHI DAN-ASABE
Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajiun. Brigadier General Maude Aminun-Kano is no more. He finally succumbed to the debilitating illness that had ravaged him and kept him out of circulation for about 18 months as he...
Moving Beyond Precarious Living in
Nigeria
A Communiqué issued at the end of
the Second Plenary Meeting of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria
(CBCN) at the Divine Mercy Pastoral Centre, Agbamaya, Obada-Oko, Abeokuta, Ogun
State, 11--20 September 2019
1. Preamble
We the Catholic Bishops of...
By IBRAHIM SHEME
This budget is for the noisy,
crowded and stuffy economy class. First class? Forget it, unless you're among
the first few on the ticket queue or were born with a silver spoon!
Also, I assume that you're going to
the station...
Work is a service; don’t despise 'lowly' jobs just because you hold a university degree
By HENRY
MUTEBE
Yesterday, a friend called to check on me. It
had been long since we talked. He asked if I had some time so I could...