Essays

Pastor Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer RCCG It is no longer news that no less than five Pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) have been abducted in Ijebu Ode, Ogun state. This is sad and regrettable. It was also avoidable. Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Pastor of the Redeemed Christian […]

Bishop Ajayi Crowther Can anyone really say that an ethnic nationality that produced Ajayi Crowther, Herbert Macauly, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Efunroye Tinubu, Olusegun Obasanjo, Adegoke Adelabu, Obafemi Awolowo, S.L. Akintola, Remi Fani-Kayode, Adesoji Aderemi, Wole Soyinka, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, MKO Abiola, Gani Fawenhmi, Tai Solarin, Kayode Eso, Victor Banjo, Alabi Isama, Adeyinka Adebayo, Francis Fajuyi, Alani Akinrinade,

Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, Bishop Catholic Dioceses of Sokoto “If it is Fulani today, yesterday it was the Igbos”- Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah. I have immense respect for Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah but to compare the situation of the Fulani in the south today to the situation of the Igbo in the north in 1966

Pastor Biodun Fatoyibo Permit me to begin by saying that my heart goes out to Mr. Timi Dakolo, a very pleasant and respectful young man who I first met at President Goodluck Jonathan’s house two years ago. We interacted again two weeks ago when we spoke briefly on the phone after the news about the

President Muhammadu Buhari On 6th February 2014 the Leader of IPOB and the Lion of the East, my friend and brother Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, said the following, “As they campaign vigorously for elections, you would think, they are coming to grow the economy, enthrone justice, breed unity and tolerance, love for one another.

Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa “Every bird flies with its own kind. Crows fly with crows and eagles fly with eagles”- Muyhideen Ibn Arabi. Muyhideen Ibn Arabi (1165 AD -1240 AD) was one of the greatest clerics, philosophers, teachers, poets, intellectuals, spiritual masters and Sufi Muslim scholars that ever lived.

Colonel Odimegwu Ojukwu You are either a historian or a politician. You cannot be both. And generally speaking Nigerian politicians hate historians more than anyone else because they remind them of a past that they would rather bury and forget. Today I am speaking and writing not as a politician but as a historian, a

“Nigeria’s a typical West African mess of a country, only bigger and meaner. It’s divided up the usual way: the coastal tribes are Christianized from sucking up to the European colonists. The further inland you go, the drier, hungrier and more Islamic it gets. The Brits grabbed the Nigerian coastline from the Portuguese when they

Chief Moshood Abiola Today is June 12th, our nation’s Democracy Day and I have some home truths to tell. The struggle for June 12th was indeed a noble, worthy, cataclysmic and monumental one. It was also something of a nightmare which littered our fields with many corpses and soaked the very foundation of our nation