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January 9, 2017

Church Crawler: The hymn party and my disappointment | Sunday at Regina Mundi Catholic Church

by Damilola Fowowe This Sunday, Church crawler in our usual manner took shop to Regina Mundi Catholic Church, Lagos. We couldn’t storm the service as we normally do because we figured things are done in a more orderly manner here. Apparently, there’s a far distinction from the Pentecostal way of worship. But you can trust... Read More
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January 8, 2017

Eye on Ambode: Lagos to host Rasheed Gbadamosi Art Expo, 2017 Thanksgiving Service holds at Lagos House, more

Here’s where we bring you a weekly recap of the activities of Lagos state’s Governor Akinwunmi Ambode. This time, we take you through the governor’s first set activities in the new year. On Monday, the state government made it known that it will be hosting the Rasheed Gbadamosi Art Expo as promised by the governor.... Read More
Featured, The Alausa Blog, Thinking Through
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January 8, 2017

#NightofWorshipAndProphecy: So we went around scouting for new year prophecies

As we are in the season of prophecies, we decided to storm one of the prophetical services around. So we stormed the ‘Thus Saith the Lord’ series organized by The Governing Church. It’s a series of prophetical services and today wraps it with a worship and prophetic night. So we would be treated to another... Read More
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January 8, 2017

[The Presidential Blog] The takeaway for Hadi Sirika from the Fort Lauderdale shooting

On Friday, after Esteban Santiago, a United States Army veteran, got his things from the luggage carousel at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, he went straight into the bathroom, came back out and within minutes, he had killed five people and injured six. Esteban had been so disturbed by his experiences fighting for his country that he... Read More
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January 7, 2017

The Church Blog: This is the memo announcing Pastor Obayemi as RCCG Overseer in Nigeria (READ)

YNaija has laid her hands on contents of a memo issued by the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye explaining his decision to name Pastor Joseph Obayemi as the Overseer of RCCG Nigeria. The memo was dated January 7, 2017 and signed by the Special Assistant to the... Read More
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January 7, 2017

The Church Blog: This is why the RCCG will last forever

The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) was founded in 1952. It didn’t really grow as fast as we understand church growth today, but it’s founder, Rev. Josiah Olufemi Akindayomi was focused always on the long term. So, years before he retired, he began to look for a successor. Eventually dragging Enoch Adejare Adebayo from... Read More
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January 7, 2017

The Film Blog: Yes, The Wedding Party’s success is a metaphor for our country

I'm so glad #NewNollywood is now giving us movies we pay 2 watch in cinemas, not cos we want to 'support' our own but cos they're that great https://t.co/0WHj8dQYmi — Whole Women Network Co-op (@wwncoop) January 6, 2017 Even when they gave us cringe-worthy movies, we patronized, all over Africa, in diaspora & in Caribbean,... Read More
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January 7, 2017

[The Legislative Blog]: This is how the immunity removal bill died

Only few days ago, we had very high hopes about the removal of immunity bill sponsored by Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, representing Delta-Central constituency and forwarded to the Senate Committee on Constitution Review in December. The bill sought to amend Section 308 of the Nigerian constitution which provides that no civil or criminal proceedings shall be... Read More
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January 6, 2017

[The Presidential Blog] We are looking forward to today’s meeting with Malami

The President is scheduled to meet with the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami at 12 pm today. Of course, the meeting concerns the December 16th directive issued by the President to the Minister to probe all the top government officials accused of corruption. Recall that a number of officials in... Read More
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January 6, 2017

The Church Blog: This WashPo article attacks Trump’s reliance on prosperity pastors

While we’re here trying to spread the pentecostal message to many areas of Africa the movement keeps getting more and more resistance right there in North America. Or what would you say about this theology professor, Michael Horton who just can’t stand the Word of Faith – teachings from people like T.D Jakes, Joel Osteen and... Read More
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January 5, 2017

[The Legislative Blog]: This brilliant Made in Nigeria animation got the attention of the Senate President

Created in Lagos by Anthill Studios, Play Thing was shared on Twitter and it caught Senator Bukola Saraki’s eye. The Senate President who has been spending most of his recess promoting the Made in Nigeria Challenge demanded to know the designers of the animation. This is one to be proud of and we’re totally here... Read More
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January 5, 2017

The Sexuality Blog: He who Nigerians will kill they first strip naked

It’s been a few months now since the infamous story of the robber who was lynched in Orile broke. There is often some protest, usually digital, by well meaning Nigerians when a person is lynched in Nigeria, criminal or not. But this one, because of still unsubstantiated suspicion that the robber was actually a child... Read More
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January 4, 2017

[The Legislative Blog]: Dear National Assembly, save Nigeria from hijackers

It’s only day 4 in the new year and the political sphere in Nigeria is already so heated up. According to a report on Trent.com, a human rights lawyer, Ebun Olu-Adegoruwa has revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari is sick and a cabal has hijacked the government. Sounds familiar? We would have been surprised about this... Read More
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January 4, 2017

The Sexuality Blog: Have you ever stopped to wonder why people are born ‘straight’?

Nigerians everywhere are slowly coming to terms with the reality that not everyone is heterosexual. That first sentence is phrased that way deliberately because in discussions here about sexuality, one thing is always taken for granted; for sexual minorities to exist, there has to be a majority, and that majority is overwhelmingly heterosexual. Especially here where pressure... Read More
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January 4, 2017

[The Presidential Blog] Let’s do the maths of this 5,000 Social Investment Programme

Yesterday, Senior Special Assistant on Media & Publicity to the Vice President, Laolu Akande, announced that one million Nigerians would receive N5000 monthly payments through its Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) of its Social Investment Programmes. We don’t intend to sound like we are confused, after all, we have been asking the administration to alleviate the penurious effects... Read More
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SERAP
January 4, 2017

[The Presidential Blog] All the allegations leveled against President Buhari’s officers

One thing the pastors have obviously omitted in their 2017 prophecies is the fact that this is the year of pro-active participation in governance by citizens. We led the way here when we prepared a must-do list for the President and we had even given him pointers earlier on how we’d like to be impressed... Read More
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January 3, 2017

[The Presidential Blog] The road finally looks paved for Babachir Lawal’s exit

BabaThe country has been clamouring for the removal of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation for several months now. The calls became heightened in the days following the revelation of his alleged involvement in the PINE-IDP-contracts scandal by the Shehu Sani-led ad hoc committee of the Senate. Some people even went as far... Read More
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January 3, 2017

[The Legislative Blog]: What ‘Man of the Year’? Senator Shehu Sani disagrees with Gov Obiano’s award

On 1 January, Anambra state Governor Willie Obiano emerged the Silverbird Man of the Year 2016. Governor Obiano won the award based on his “prudent management of resources and embarking on massive infrastructural development in Anambra state.” Well, congratulations! But Senator Shehu Sani does not agree with the idea of rewarding politicians and top public... Read More
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January 2, 2017

Church Crawler: That Sunday when we stormed The Apostolic Church crossover service

by Damilola Fowowe Yes! It’s a new year and how best to start a year than in Church. So in Church Crawler style (see Sola Sobowale’s entrance in The Wedding Party), we stormed a church. We decided to worship at one of the earlier Pentecostal churches in Nigeria, The Apostolic Church. They had their special... Read More
Church Culture, Thinking Through
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January 1, 2017

We have your receipts: Dear Garba Shehu, we are still in recession

We hate to be the people that will remind you of this grim fact on the first day of the New Year. On a day like this, you should be reading stuff like this. However, as you may have read by now, 2017 is the year when we finally ditch the lack of accountability that... Read More
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January 1, 2017

The Church Blog: Omojuwa asks all the questions we have about New Year prophecies

OAP Freeze is an attention seeker, so when he tore apart Daddy Adeboye’s 2016 prophecies, it was difficult to take him seriously – because that man cries wolf too many times. However, when blogger Japheth Omojuwa, a born-again, church-ministering Christian raises the questions, we believe it confirms it is time for a conversation. See below... Read More
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