Nigerians today boast of the biggest churches in the world. For the members of those ministries, it is a huge achievement. For many who understand the dynamics, it is a sign of endemic poverty, deprivation and bad governance. Let me try to explain. Some of the most pressing things that force our people to churches
Does someone here know God? The journalist who collects money to write untruth, knows God. The judge who collects bribes to give false judgements, knows God. The Police who collect bribes to oppress those he is supposed to protect, knows God. The security chief who misappropriates security funds for personal gains, knows God. The medical
I had thought I would never turn out to be anything in life because I was told so, but my God proved everyone wrong. I have been locked up in Police stations more than 50 times, in all, my God came through. I have been incarcerated in five different prisons by both the government and
One of my younger friends who was with me yesterday at home, asked a question about tattoos. He wears tattoos and he is a church instrumentalist. He is smart and very good with multiple instruments. He said he is always uncomfortable about the remarks he gets about his tattoos in Church and was asking me
Since the 11th century when Islam was introduced to Nigeria and the 15th century when the first Portuguese friars introduced Christianity to Nigeria, most of the people who have run the affairs of Nigeria even before it was amalgamated up to independence, till date, are Christians and Muslims. How much of the heaven that these
Nigeria is hard! Sounds awkward in the first line of an article on a Monday morning. But that’s the smell of truth. Silver nor gold do I have to give those who are going through this hardship, but I wake up most of the time thinking about experience sharing that can give someone out there
I chose that headline deliberately because of one of the most quoted scriptures that I feel is also being manipulated and deliberately used to perpetuate hocus-pocus. It has become an alibi for impunity and a leeway for rascality, to promptly quote Matthew 7:37 when folks don’t want their adverse doings to be scrutinized. But that
I can wake up today and decide to announce to everyone that I had a personal encounter with Christ and have been commanded to denounce my strong belief in African Traditional Religion and I have become born again and I am starting a ministry to propagate the Gospel of the Lord. Then a couple of