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FROM THE PREACHER'S LENSES

Difficulties in fighting Nigeria's problems (1)

SAM AWEDA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - God gave me a vision of what we ought to do to get things straightened out in the country, including the poverty, which has overwhelmed the majority. I wrote out the vision in a book and even relocated to Nigeria to work on it. I gave the book freely to hundreds of Nigerians. On enquiry after a year or thereabout, I am to discover that the book is not read: more >>

UPDATED: Rashidi Yekini and madness: A myth or reality?

SEYE GBAROYE, USA (Nigeriaworld) - I am not in any way attempting a diagnosis of the Mental Health status of Rashidi Yekini before he died. My specialty is Children and Family at Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work. I do not have the competency to diagnose as an authority in mental health. But I am writing based on my study and knowledge of Mental Disorders as a result of the mandatory courses I took in Psychopathology and Psychopharmacology before I chose my Specialty. I also have experience working with Mental Health population as a Behavioral Health Counselor. more >>

Nigeria is hot; Prehaps too hot (7)

TEMPLE C. UBOCHI, Bonn, Germany (Nigeriaworld) - Not only are the poor living in poverty, everything governments do, irrespective of political party, conspire, if they are not designed, to keep them (the poor) mired in poverty for generations. Nigeria had lost several generations to grinding poverty - meaning people have lived all their lives only to constitute a burden to the nation because their net contribution to the wealth of our country had been negative. more >>

Same-sex marriage

WUMI AKINTIDE, New York, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - As a freelance columnist who has predicted many times that Barack Obama will win again in November, it will be hypocritical of me to not meddle or comment on how the raging debate on same-sex marriage is likely to validate or invalidate my prediction on the outcome of the election. I happen not to believe that the election is going to be won or lost based on the economy alone and who out of the two candidates the will do a better job of managing the economy. more >>

On the battle of the mind; Religious thinking which underline the Nigerian problem (1)

E O EKE, (Nigeriaworld) - The development in north Nigeria should be a source of serious concern to anybody who loves Nigeria and understand the nature, aims objectives and mind set of Islamic extremists and what they are determined to do to others because of their beliefs. In countries where there have been similar problems, persecution of other groups has become endemic and the level of tolerance of differences and diversities have deteriorated. Such countries have been consumed in violence, instability, poverty, sufferings and extremism. more >>

BOOK ONLINE

�River Juju� Chapter 1

CHIGACHI EKE, (Nigeriaworld) - When women expose their motherhood in protest, mysterious forces latent in trees and the very air we breathe are waken. The DSP knew this. This was no rocket science that anyone could teach him. It was plain truth. Christianity had nothing to do with natural forces when it came to Afrikan culture. Attempt it and see the repercussion. The naked woman who forced her way into the back of that van just pointed at him and nothing would make him cross that line. He had come up against the greatest force in the universe. more >>

HAPPY MOTHERS' DAY

God's woman - Change your mind

Rev. Dr. Mrs. IJEOMA IBELEME, St. Ann's Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago (Nigeriaworld) - I wonder what is on your mind right now. Would you like me to be able to read your mind right now? Does that thought make you uneasy? Well I've got news for you, God can and He does invade your privacy and read your mind all the time - even right now, but I'll like you to calm down because there is good news for you - even if the thoughts in your mind are not wholesome: YOU can do something about that. Right now you have a right to and you definitely can Change your Mind. more >>

Boko Haram and the Taliban I saw in Kandahar; Nigerian flag in an Afghan kitchen; Politicking with national security

HENRY OKOROAFOR, New York, USA (Nigeriaworld) - I was dumbfounded when President Goodluck Jonathan told South Korean based Nigerians that our leaders are playing politics with terrorism in Nigeria. He made the statement during his visit to South Korea for the Nuclear Security Summit on 27 March 2012. It was a two part statement which was preceded by his assertion that he plans to replicate the economic principles of the ''Four Asian Tigers'' in Nigeria. The ambiguity of the President�s statement instantly pushed me to analytical overdrive.... more >>

FROM THE PREACHER'S LENSES

The hope I have for Nigeria (6)

SAM AWEDA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - It is quite a delight to watch the zeal by which Nigerians, both the Muslims and Christians take their religion. We do not take the prayer times with joke. We pray a lot. But why have all the night vigils not taken our poverty away in spite of all these prayers? Why is life still difficult for most citizens? more >>

Nigeria and the Paradox of two wars

E O EKE, (Nigeriaworld) - Many years ago, the government of Nigeria developed a penchant for declaring war on problems that require simple and clear thinking, planning and strategic execution of the solutions. The first of these wars was the declaration of war on corruption WAC. Since the war on corruption was declared in Nigeria, corruption has grown from strength to strength. From being something the society abhorred, it has become institutionalised, endemic and normalised. Nigerians have come to embrace corruption as a way of life and it is now well embedded into the fabrics of our society and who knows if it has found its way into our genes. more >>

Mahatma Gandhi was exactly right then and now ...We all must strive to become the change we want to see in Nigeria

WUMI AKINTIDE, New York, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - If we all want Nigeria to ever move forward, we all must, of necessity, become the change or part of the change we candidly want to see in Nigeria. Looking back in time, Nigerians would recall that Murtala Mohammed arguably the best military leader to ever come our way in Nigeria had done so by following the Gandhi precept. ... Looking back I can now see that Obafemi Awolowo pretty much followed the Gandhi precept as Premier of the old Western Region. Awolowo had returned from England determined to do for his region some of what he had learnt during his sojourn in the U.K. more >>

Akumba Igwilo - When a jewel goes home

DUKE IGWILO, (Nigeriaworld) - In the traditional Igbo society, it is said that you don't speak evil of the dead rather you sing eulogies of the good people when they are gone. To write about my mother is simply turning me inside out. To state that my mother was a good woman is praise-singing which she does not subscribe to and would not tolerate. As I was searching, I found an unknown quote which state that ''A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure'' - I immediately felt that this is a true summary of my mother. more >>

BABS' MUSE

The dishonest and disingenuous legacy of TY Danjuma

BABS AJAYI, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - No Nigerian soldier living or dead has been more devious and hypocritical than the retired general Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma. A master coup plotter and leader of military juntas for nearly three decades in Nigeria, TY Danjuma is the master opportunist and gifted grabber, the very pedantic soul with a price measured in stolen oil block. ... One of a few men who high-jacked the future of our nation and set it on a course to perdition.... more >>

Nigeria is hot; Prehaps too hot (6)

TEMPLE C. UBOCHI, Bonn, Germany (Nigeriaworld) - The national assembly members may be feeling that they�re doing Nigerians a favour by representing them, so they have the right to loot Nigeria to death. Nigerian legislatures are different breeds from their counterparts all over the world. In other climes, where things work as they should, legislators strive to make their respective constituencies happy as that would determine whether they will be re-elected or not, but, in Nigeria, the legislators give no damn about their constituencies, because, they can easily win re-election through rigging or they would remember their respective consistencies only when election draws nearer. more >>

Kill them All!

MANKIND O. OYEWUMI, (Nigeriaworld) - The cultural structures and material facilities for active resistance we may lack in our revolution to conquer our nation�s growing triumph of moral filth and political decadence over popularly beneficial sense, but a revolution there must be � one whose results shall easily bequeath the honourably prescribing documents of governmental structures and enviable citizens� values that proscribe all angular samples of possible deceits.... more >>

Why Boko Haram is an albatross to the Nigerian Government: Where is the leadership in Nigeria?

CHRISTIAN N. MADU, New York, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - One thing that seems obvious is that Boko Haram has exposed the weaknesses in the Northern leadership and shows that there is a deep division, if not total disconnect, between the ruling class and the masses. The masses are largely poor, uneducated, unemployed, and uncared for that their lives are so worthless to the point that death is a preferred choice. more >>

FROM THE PREACHER'S LENSES

The hope I have for Nigeria (1)

SAM AWEDA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Right now, beckon to all people around you to come and listen to this important discussion that concerns us all; young and old. It is my prayer that your heart will be prepared to receive these instructions as to your own role in order to turn Nigeria around. Every Nigerian has a role to play, it singles no one out. more >>

The change Nigeria needs right Now!

ALFRED AISEDIONLEN, London, UK (Nigeriaworld) - The present state of affairs in Nigeria demonstrates the fragility of the country. These are traceable to fraudulent nomination of wrong candidates for election; rigged election for the same candidates; the Courts upholding the same rigged election; the attendant endemic corruption in the system. All of these culminate in incapable hands being in charge of the country. more >>

BOOK PREVIEW

Synopsis of Chigachi Eke�s �River Juju�

CHIGACHI EKE, (Nigeriaworld) - Setting: �River Juju� is a novel shaped by the Black Experience in all its nuances and contradictions. Set in the backwaters and waterfronts of the Niger Delta, it brings the reader face to face with denizens who, having lost out in this world, blindly take to religion not to lose again in Paradise. I intentionally privileged religion because black people are very religious. This trait also contains the seed of their destruction as same religion is used to justify physical and psychological violence against them. more >>

House of Reps ad hoc Committee�s report on fuel subsidy: A rare and bold move from an inert National Assembly (1)

TEMPLE C. UBOCHI, Bonn, Germany (Nigeriaworld) - In carrying out its assignment, the Hon Farouk Lawan led ad hoc committee that investigated the management of the fuel subsidy decided to limit the scope of the investigation to three years - 2009 -2011. The Committee held public hearings from 16th of January, 2012 to 9th of February, 2012; took sworn testimonies from 130 witnesses; received information from several volunteers; and over 3,000 volumes of documents were taken as evidence. more >>

House of Reps ad hoc Committee�s report on fuel subsidy: A rare and bold move from an inert National Assembly (Concluded)

TEMPLE C. UBOCHI, Bonn, Germany (Nigeriaworld) - Nigerians are surprised that the House members of this ad hoc committee were able to do their job without caving in to all kinds of pressure the oil cartel or mafia beamed on them. Those who have fleeced Nigeria of trillions of Naira and gained from the country�s oil wealth while millions of Nigerians citizens live miserably in the midst of plenty are so powerful and can fight dirty in order to bulldoze their way through any obstacle that might block their selfish gains, but, were unable to compromise the committee members. more >>

BABS' MUSE

Fuel subsidy fraud: We must defeat the cabal

BABS AJAYI, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - This is a difficult time for us all and we face a determined cabal that is desperate, trapped, yet hell-bent to continue to rip you and me off and charge us for services not requested and not delivered; they are thieves within and outside the government circles. Essentially, we are faced with a roguish group that is used to living large, stealing from the nation and double-dipping to maintain a life style of splendour, pseudo-prosperity, dubious sense of wealth and abundance. more >>

Individual track record, vision, ability to connect, fairness credibility & likeability far more than the economy per se will determine the outcome of this election

WUMI AKINTIDE, New York, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - It is only in renegade countries of the third world where all these factors about candidates and their performance in office count for nothing in determining the outcome of most elections particularly in peace time. I have not, for once, heard either Obama or Romney gloat or talk about their amorphous ability to keep America one as one of their unique qualifications for the presidency like their counterparts in Nigeria.... more >>

FROM THE PREACHER'S LENSES

Making Nigeria a land of praise -- Coming event May 5 2012

SAM AWEDA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - (Text of Radio Broadcast)... You must have been hearing since last year during our broadcast hours that the Pastor will be calling a gathering of all God's people to address the mirage of problems facing this nation, which are debarring our progress. We shall be talking about it today. more >>

Why Leadership is important

AMOS D. DADA, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - There is an old saying that the way to become a leader is to find a parade and run to the front of it. We refer to a person ''leading'' a parade, but walking at the front isn't really leadership unless the person in front is actually choosing the direction! If the person isn't choosing the direction, then being at the front of the line is merely a way to pretend to be a leader. Saul was 'parading' until David gave a purposeful leadership. more >>

Oil spills response in Nigeria: In defence of NOSDRA

REGINALD O. ORANYE, Toronto, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - The proposed scrapping of NOSDRA will be a disaster for Nigeria's environmental protection agenda with immense domino effect. It will further dim the already bleak prospect of progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals on environmental protection and sustainable development. Rather, the Environment Ministry and its agencies should be strengthened and empowered with the development of appropriate and enforceable environmental legislations. more >>

Igbos, Nigeria, and the future; time to bury the ghost of the Biafra

E O EKE, (Nigeriaworld) - I fear that misguided Igbo nationalists, drunk on Biafra and ethnic prejudice with overvalued ideas that they have a better vision for Igbo land may drag Igbos further away from the centre of Nigeria politics and chart a course for Igbos similar to the one that sealed the fate of the Tamils of Sri lanker. These people project themselves as more concerned about the injustices the Igbos are suffering in North Nigeria and see anybody who does not share their views as against the Igbo cause. more >>

Al Sharpton�s bumper sticker observation is not only true in America but everywhere

WUMI AKINTIDE, New York, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - I, once upon a time, made the mistake that several people had initially made in writing off Al Sharpton as a rabble-rouser when he first began his long and difficult journey to stardom in America because that was the way he was portrayed by the Press. Looking back in time, I can now clearly see the man was only going thru the baptism of fire that most change agents all over the world often had to go thru to get noticed. A few of such agents in the black community in America readily come to mind. more >>

'FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING' SERIES

Learning from The Apostolic Churches: The Church in the Epistle to The Ephesians

S. 'JIDE KOMOLAFE, (Nigeriaworld) - If the epistle is ''essentially about Christ,'' especially as ''one in whom God chooses to sum up the cosmos, the one in whom he restores harmony to the universe,'' then Christ's sovereignty over the cosmos raises some implications for the Church, his ''Body'' (O'Brien, 1999:58). It begs the question of the Church's relation to Christ's cosmic role, to the principalities and powers, and to God's eternal purpose. more >>

A creative Nigeria will be a progressive Nigeria

GEORGE UWAIFO, Mexico City, Mexico (Nigeriaworld) - I would probably not get this same opportunity in Nigeria because government inactivity in providing the necessary amenities makes research and development very risky and the private sector places so much emphasis on 'paper certification' and the acquisition of degrees. Worthless degrees and certificates, I must add, because usually the bearers are far from being literate and are usually unable to defend such degrees which usually reflect negatively on the quality of their work in the long run. more >>

BABS' MUSE

James Onanefe Ibori: Just one of the theives

BABS AJAYI, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his then deputy Atiku Abubakar are probably richer than James Ibori considering their worth and assets today. The funds in the hands of the two men are not funds they worked for and earned by legitimate means. Most of the loot of the two men came from cash grabs relating to the nation�s oil and gas resources and federal government of Nigeria treasury. In fact, Chief Obasanjo was his own petroleum minister for the whole eight years he was in office! more >>

FEMI AWODELE'S HOUSE CALL

Home Improvement Series CXLXII: Generational Curse (myth or reality?) and your Marriage/Family

FEMI AWODELE, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Generational curses are real and they do exist, however, to understand generational curses we need to have an understanding of spiritual realities. According to the bible, God created all things, including spirit beings (angels, demons and humans), He also created the three realms in which we all exist in (first, second and third heavens). ... There is however another dimension to �generational� curses that is not entirely spiritual, rather it is based on human nature (physiology, psychology, etc.). more >>

James Ibori: The petty thief who nearly ruled Nigeria

TEMPLE C. UBOCHI, Bonn, Germany (Nigeriaworld) - While, Ibori, Aondoakaa, Busola Saraki, Yar�Adua and the cabal surrounding him were planning, God was disposing. Who knew that Yar�Adua could have �kicked the bucket� when he did? That�s why Ibori today is a convicted man, and the reason Delta State will get some of its stolen assets back. If Yar�Adua were alive today, Ibori couldn�t have smelled prison or forfeit any asset whatsoever! Ibori tormented Goodluck Jonathan, when he was the vice president, and was the reason why Yar�Adua reduced the office of the vice president to ministerial level and never cared to hand over to Goodluck Jonathan.... more >>

Ibori�s shame, our shame

E O EKE, (Nigeriaworld) - According to the judge the evidence would suggest that Ibori embezzled more than �250m of state fund over the period he was in power. ... It will strengthen the case of those who are calling for Britain to stop its economic aid to Nigeria. Ibori�s conviction in London is indeed a triumph of justice and the rule of law over corruption and impunity. It is also a serious indictment of the Nigerian government and its criminal justice system which failed to bring Ibori and thousands like him to justice in Nigeria. more >>

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