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The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi has said there’s nothing demonic about ancient traditional religion. In a recent interview with the Osasu show, the Ooni said he has been able to discover that all religions “are one.” Oba Ogunwusi added that there is only one God being worshipped in different ways. He said he... Read More
US President Donald Trump has shown solidarity to Christians in the Middle East. In a tweet on Sunday, Trump tweeted his disagreement with their alleged mass murder. He tweeted, “Christians in the Middle-East have been executed in large numbers. We cannot allow this horror to continue!”
The Nigerian church and the Nigerian Christian cannot remain on the fringes of society, comfortable with preaching the word and quoting the bible if we want to make far-reaching progress in other spheres of life, like politics and generational wealth building. Do see below: And their descendants made a lot of money. That was their legacy.... Read More
by Femi Aribisala The salvation popularly preached in the churches is not the salvation of Jesus Christ. The notion that Christians are already saved is beguiling, bewitching and illusory. Paul says we are saved without works. (Ephesians 2:9). Then he enjoins us to work out our salvation with fear and trembling. (Philippians 2:12). However, there... Read More
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
He walks around the stage, very light – as one who has engaged the vanity of the world, and understands the primacy of the One who first called him. Donnie McClurkin spent the week in Nigeria, on radio, on social media – pushing local acts, singing the praise of the other foreign acts, making personal... Read More
We waited for this moment and it’s here now. The 11th edition of The Experience is about to go live and we are super super excited… See photos: If you’re not there yet, it’s really not too late!
The Vice President, Professor Oluyemi Osinbajo expressed his unwavering faith and confidence that Nigeria will rise and be great again. While speaking at the Freedom Rally, an Independence Day Carnival organised by the House of Freedom on October 2, 2016 at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, he said as a nation, Nigeria is on a... Read More
By Ugonna Eronini This is something am sure each and everyone one of us have experienced and it’s not only annoying sometimes, it is getting out of hand. I moved to school a bit late this semester and got settled down. For Sunday services the previous semester, I had been attending a fellowship in school that... Read More
Recently, there has been lingering controversy on social media that a man shouldn’t marry a woman who doesn’t know how to cook or a woman who doesn’t pray for an hour. Self-proclaimed Apostle of Marriage, Pastor Chris Ojigbani says house chores and one hour prayers should not be used a criteria for marriage adding that... Read More
by Salau Oluwatorinmo – Over a year ago, President Muhammadu Buhari (or PMB as he is fondly called) was ushered into office to the chorus of “Change.” Beyond being practically fed up with the inertia of Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, a major reason the electorate voted enmasse for the present one was his trustworthy image. An... Read More
A man in Kogi state, Hussain Zubairu has been arrested by the police for allegedly stabbing his pregnant neighbor to death over an argument. The suspect lived in the Idogido community of Okene Local Government Area of the state and was said to have stabbed his victim in the stomach with a pair of scissors.... Read More
by Chude Jideonwo Something has worried me for quite a while, and it goes without saying that for this meeting to be convened, it has worried many of you too. Last year my Album of the Year – not Christian Album of the Year – was ‘Miracle Worker’. There is no church in Nigeria that... Read More
Perhaps the biggest lesson I learned on Sunday was: never take the recommendation of everyone. A mixture of curiosity and uncertainty on which church to crawl forced me to ask the security guard at my residence which church he attends. Bubbling with enthusiasm, he told me and went on to invite me to the church.... Read More
By Bukola Ogunyemi The battle for the seat of Ile-Ife may not have been won after all. The royal houses of Ife lands dealt with 21 names and pedigree over months, a king emerged but the battle for the Ife Ooye is far from over. Oba Ogunwusi, Ooni Ojaja II has been in the frontpage of new... Read More
The Muslim Ummah of South West Nigeria (MUSWEN), has urged the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Osun state chapter, to embrace the ruling of a court on hijab wearing for female student or take the matter to another court. The executive secretary of MUSWEN, Professor Dawud O. S. Noibi, said this on Thursday while speaking with newsmen. MUSWEN... Read More
Nothing best describes the beauty of unity in diversity, the silence in a cacophony of carefully orchestrated sounds and the serenity in the gathering of many – than my experience at Covenant Christian Centre, Lekki. I set out from my abode with the mind to get to the church some minutes late- the famous African... Read More
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani Almost all of Nigeria’s many inter-religious crises have erupted in the north of the country, where the majority of the country’s Muslims live, along with a sizeable Christian minority. But, over the past few weeks, a religious conflict of a peculiar nature has sprouted in Osun state, south-west Nigeria, which has a... Read More
As the tenure of Ayo Oritsejafor, President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), winds down, a wave of fresh crisis has hit the organization- regarding his replacement. The Catholic church has allegedly threatened to pull out of CAN if the crisis isn’t resolved. According to Vanguard, reports indicate that the candidate of TEKAN/ECWA bloc, Jeremiah Gado,... Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the killing of an Igbo trader, Bridget Patiece Agbahime, by an angry mob in Kano state for allegedly insulting the Prophet Mohammed. In a series of tweets on his Twitter handle, the President called on Nigerians to maintain peace while he commended the Kano state governor, Umar Ganduje, for being proactive... Read More
Sule Lamido, former governor of Jigawa state, has lauded the effectiveness of the controversial National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ali Modu Sheriff. Lamido, who spoke to Weekly Trust on Saturday, April 23, said the people calling for the removal of Sheriff as PDP chairman do not understand the intricacies of politics. He also... Read More
by Edikan Uko We should stop eating beef in Nigeria. Here’s why? It is now officially worse than blood diamonds. The people who rear cows and trade in cows are terrorists popularly known as Fulani herdsmen. They are no ordinary ‘herdsmen’, they are terrorists. A report published by Independent UK, named the Fulani Herdsmen as the... Read More
A good number of the reactions to President Muhammadu Buhari’s announcement that Nigeria has joined the Islamic Coalition Against Terrorism, show quite clearly that many Nigerians do not fully understand the president’s motives for this decision. With the rise of the Boko Haram Terrorist group of the past few years, Nigeria faces a threat such... Read More
The recent weeks have been tough for Nigeria and Nigerians. With the strangest of shameful news making the headlines and drawing negative attention to a nation already haemorrhaging uncontrollably from economic collapse, social decadence, brutishness of state agents and common criminals as well who murder fellow citizens in their hundreds in mindless and needless exhibition... Read More
Bigot (noun) big·ot \ˈbi-gət\ {Merriam Webster Dictionary} : a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc. : a bigoted person; especially : a person who hates or refuses to accept the members of a particular group (such as a racial or religious group) Bigotry [big-uh-tree]. Noun. Plural bigotries.{Dictionary.com} 1. Stubborn and... Read More
by James Sambo A former military head of state, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, says the leader of the defunct Biafra, Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, never expected him to go to war because of his status as a ‘Born Again Christian’. According to Gowon, who led Nigerian forces during the Nigerian civil war from 1967-1970, the Biafran warlord felt... Read More
by Mark Bassey Driving around this morning in Lagos and probably other states, you would have thought it was a public holiday. The roads were deserted, with only few vehicles in sight. So what happened to we the God-loving Nigerian lot? 1. Members were asked not to come After INEC announced that the elections will... Read More
by Kolapo Olapoju A leader of the Yoruba socio-cultural group- Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has vowed that he would never forgive the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Adebanjo says that despite being a Christian, he would not forgive Buharu because of his atrocities against Yoruba leaders while he was... Read More
by Kolapo Olapoju The All Progressives Congress (APC) has alarmed Nigerians over a supposed plot by politicians to share leaflets in mosques and churches, in order to create religious division ahead of the forthcoming general elections. The party released a statement in Lagos on Thursday, February 19, through its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, who... Read More
