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August 9, 2012

Dead on arrival: Lagos Assembly soft-pedals on cremation bill

by Isi Esene The Speaker of the Lagos Sate House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, has assured Lagosians that the House will consider their wishes when deliberating on the cremation bill…

July 24, 2012

Simon Kolawole: A society of hardliners and bigots

Fellow Nigerians, why are we maiming and killing in the name of religion and ethnicity? We are never going to answer the question the same way. It is poverty, many…

July 22, 2012

Elnathan John: How to worship the Nigerian ‘God’

by Elnathan John The Nigerian god is one. It may have many different manifestations, but it is essentially different sides of the same coin. Sometimes, adherents of the different sides…

July 6, 2012

Elnathan John: How to participate in the destruction of Nigeria

by Elnathan John Sometimes the leaders of a country can unilaterally destroy a country or lead it into war without the active participation of its citizens. That is very selfish.…

June 22, 2012

Elnathan John is mad about Kaduna: How to get angry

by Elnathan John I interrupt the ‘How To’ series to say one thing. I am angry. Very angry. So if you want to laugh or have started your day…

May 27, 2012

‘Damilola Oyedele: Christians, we need to do better (30 Days, 30 Voices)

Of all places you can be in the Christian faith, the middle ground is the worst place. After dancing around the truth for years, I have come to accept that…

March 29, 2012

Iyayi Oria: Opium? Religion is now our heroin!

BISHOP OYEDEPO By Iyayi Oria Religion may be the opium of the masses, but Nigerians have upgraded to heroin. Opium is for the poor, and our God is not poor. Back…

March 25, 2012

FaithNaija: Ever Strong || Spoken Word Poetry

by Chi Ibe Ever Strong is a spoken word poem about God's empowerment in our weakness... He will never leave us and with his help there's nothing we can't overcome!…

March 18, 2012

Yomi Kazeem: Worship God not Pastors

Caveat: Before you read on, let me state that I am a Christian and I believe in Jesus and the gospel. Cynically, some questions can be asked: Why take offering(s)…

March 16, 2012

Kathleen Ndongmo: “My God is a big-picture kind of guy” – Conscience-free Hedonism is Here! (YNaija Frontpage)

Kathleen Ndongmo But before the ladies file down their fingernails and the boys start flexing a bicep through a marathon of self-sexing, maybe we should cool our jets long enough…

February 27, 2012

Is the Archbishop of Canterbury in support of evolution? See details from the Oxford University debate everyone’s talking about

by Lekan Olanrewaju "I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it." -Professor Richard Dawkins The Oxford University on…

February 21, 2012

In itself, masturbation is not a sin against God; it’s just like playing football – Pastor Chris Oyakhilome

Photo credit: PM News by Chi Ibe In a television broadcast of Pastor Chris Live, a viewer from Ghana sent in a question asking how one can overcome masturbation. Pastor…

January 25, 2012

Part 2 – Amara Nwakpa speaks post-#OccupyNigeria: “We need a social contract and we need it now”

We have lived a lie It was Onyeka Owenu that sang the song “Run, Jonathan, Run”, imploring the man who grew up as a boy without shoes to run for…

January 25, 2012

You need to read this! Amara Nwakpa (@bubusn) speaks post-#OccupyNigeria: “We must not repeat the mistakes of our fathers” (Part 1)

Quo Vadis, Nigeria? Our desire for tribal balance in the corridors of power is at odds with our desire for a responsive and people-centric government. We cannot have our cake…

Oluwapelumi December 16, 2011

An obit not nearly enough to capture the limitless brilliance of Christopher Hitchens

by Chude Jideonwo For a long time as a child, I insisted that silence couldn’t possibly be the best answer for a fool – we just had a bunch of…

Oluwapelumi August 15, 2011

Man’s eternal quest

Teresa Nnaya One of my favorite writers, Fr. Thomas Dubay, captures the human condition this way: ‘’As a human being, a spirit-in-the-flesh, you are a thirst. Every single choice you…

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