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THE CHRISTIAN WALK

Florence Olawunmi Fagboyegun (1929-2013): An exemplum of a virtuous significant other

MOSHOOD FAYEMIWO, Chicago, Illinois, USA (Nigeriaworld) - I cut short our series on the kingdom of the Lord and what the Holy Spirit showed us about the glory of heavens in this column this week to pay tribute to a great aunt who has just departed for glory. Less than twenty-four hours after Mrs. Florence Olawunmi Fagboyegun passed to eternity in Akure, Ondo State; Brother Shehu Yahaya sent an urgent text to inform me of the passage of my great aunt. more >>

The village head Professor (Part 2)

WUMI AKINTIDE, New York, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - I can understand Kabiyesi Ooni Risa Sijuade, Kabiyesi Alaafin Lamidi Adeyemi, to mention a few in the Yoruba enclave, calling themselves Royal Majesties. I can understand the Sultan of Sokoto, the Emir of Kano, the Shehu of Bornu and the Etsu Nupe claiming such titles in the old North to remind them of their past glory and history. I can understand the powerful Oba of Benin making the same claim in Edo, or the Obong of Calabar or the Jaja of Opobo or the Obi of Onitsha doing the same thing, but it is mind-boggling to hear little chieftains like the Alaiyede of Ogbese, the Olu Alayere, the Oloja Morio and the Akapinsa of Ipinsa or the Akota of Ikota or the Olu Ala, the Olumafon the Olugushin of Igunshin to mention a few in Akure area calling themselves monarchs or their Royal Majesties and telling the Deji he cannot remove them if they cross the line because he did not appoint them. more >>

Fuss about Bishopric Appointment

Fr VALENTINE IHEANACHO, Abuja, Nigeria (Nigeriaworld) - One observes with dismay the bad blood and acrimony that are generated any time a Catholic bishop is to be appointed in Nigeria. The question is not often about the canonical qualification of a candidate or the bishop-elect but about his provenance. Some disgruntled individuals easily whip up tribal sentiments in order to garner support for their presumed cause in the defence of the 'marginalized.' The canonical requirements leave no one in doubt about some of the criteria that the Apostolic See uses in the appointment of bishops. ... Two things distinctly put the current Ahiara quagmire in a class of its own. more >>

The United States government report: The Nigerian government is still living in denial (1)

TEMPLE C. UBOCHI, Bonn, Germany (Nigeriaworld) - The problem with Nigeria today is that the rulers are living in fool’s paradise, and are not getting the message that things are out of hand in the country. There may be corruption everywhere, but, the difference is that in Nigeria, it’s being perpetrated with impunity, as nobody pays a price for shortchanging the nation and its people. The worst thing that can happen to a nation or individuals is when there’s a problem, but, the people who should solve it, chose to live in denial. more >>

Declaration of State of Emergency and good governance

E O EKE, (Nigeriaworld) - I am amazed that even as the security situation in north Nigeria continues to spiral out of control that there are Nigerians who are minded to play politics with what a desperate situation is. In one week in Nigeria, you hear of terrorist attacks in the north, kidnaping in East, armed robbery in west and Fulani herdsmen burning villages and killing innocent villagers. All regions of Nigeria are experiencing deterioration in security and increased audacity of criminals. more >>

Nigeria: The road map to peace and development

E O EKE, (Nigeriaworld) - The question remains how do we really begin to solving the Nigeria problem, especially since many people have compared it to the legendary Augean stable. Unfortunately, the problem with this perspective is that the Nigeria problem is a real problem which would not yield to magical solution. No one in Nigeria has the power to redirect a river to clean a very dirty political system sustained by a traditional culture that condones, intolerance, corruption, discrimination and injustice. more >>

Tears for Nigeria

MICHAEL NNEBE, (Nigeriaworld) - What is terribly sad about the situation in Nigeria is that I do see the tremendous potential that exists, but then I have heard of these potentials since I was capable of remembering things. ... If you can afford to read this on any platform, chances are that you have probably never seen hardship in Nigeria close up. Many of these are self induced by the inability of our leaders to have a vision that can be implemented successfully. more >>

Debate: Religious leaders should be allowed to control schools

HERBERT EZE, Fullerton, CA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - I am in support that religious leaders should be allowed to control schools because they provide moral and spiritual values in education which are lacking in government established schools. more >>

Amnesty

Fr. PAT AMOBI CHUKWUMA, (Nigeriaworld) - Presently, the Government of Dr Goodluck Jonathan is considering granting amnesty to the Islamic Boko Haram Terrorists from the Northern part of the country, who have bombed and shot numerous innocent Nigerians to death, even on a Christmas day. The Niger-Delta militants were fighting for a just cause and they had a face. But the Boko Haram terrorists are faceless and fighting for unjust cause. more >>

FROM THE PREACHER'S LENSES

May 18 2013 Town Hall Meeting - Text of my sensitization broadcast

SAM AWEDA, (Nigeriaworld) - Pastor, in the last few broadcasts you have mentioned that you will be calling a Town meeting of all citizens to discuss what we as citizens can do to bring the wealth of the nation to the door step of everyone. I will be glad if you can expatiate more to our listeners about this meeting and the date of it? My name is Olabode Ojo Akinola and I will moderate this broadcast. more >>

Congratulations, world Golden Eaglets, on your silver-winning performance

CYRIL C. NWOKEJI, Belgium (Nigeriaworld) - One cannot but congratulate the golden Eaglets, on their silver-winning performance, at the recently concluded AYC under - 17 championship, in Morocco. They no doubt did well by all standards. Reports indicate that this is perhaps the best group of under-17 players ever assembled by Nigeria.... more >>

World prophecy:- Jesus appears very handsome wearing an Arab turban

OSAGIE C. ADUN, London, UK (Nigeriaworld) - Michelle has had her own share of demonic people trying to rubbish all she has been saying and writing about our mother and Jesus. According to what she told me a woman in the USA in her home town of Santa Fe, New Mexico threatened her life but you don't play with a woman of God anyhow. She was very sincere and went to court. She complained to our mother who told her calmly not to worry about the threat. more >>

THE CHRISTIAN WALK

The Mansions in Heaven; How do they look and who inhabit them?

MOSHOOD FAYEMIWO, Chicago, Illinois, USA (Nigeriaworld) - When Our Lord Jesus Christ promised He was returning back to heaven after the work of Redemption on earth to prepare a place for us, it is either the promise is solid and cast-iron or phony. It can't be both. Those of us who have invested our eternal stake in the secured Hands of the Savior must either believe or disbelieve the promise. This promise has no allegorical interpretation; it is exactly what it is: mansions that are awaiting those of us who are going to heaven after our earthly sojourn here. more >>

BABS' MUSE

The made-by-Jonathan logjam in Rivers State

BABS AJAYI, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - The bell is ringing, ringing loud and clear, ringing again and again, but those who should listen are deaf and arrogant, so arrogant and so full of themselves they assume an air of superiority over the land. Even when a huge fire is burning and consuming the land and they have been unable to do anything about it; they are ill-equipped to control or contain the fire, suddenly they are moving forward and starting their own fire.... more >>

UZOKWE'S SEARCHLIGHT

In this internet age, our children should be doing a lot better than we did

ALFRED UZOKWE, Harrisburg, PA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - In 1977, when I sat for the WASC Exam, because of space limitation in our physics lab, I took my physics practical exam sitting outside the sparsely equipped physics lab under the sun. ... One could go on and on about the difficult conditions under which people of my era, and before, had to tackle academics.... These days, I tell my kids that if people of my era had the advantage they of the internet era have we would have performed wonders. more >>

BOOK REVIEW

They came before Columbus, by Professor Ivan Sertima

FEMI AKOMOLAFE, (Nigeriaworld) - History, as taught in the Western and Western-dominated world, gives the impression that the first Africans to reach the Americas were brought as slaves, in shackles on slaves-ships. So total is the Euro-Americans onslaught on black people that all military, missionary, scholarship, academic forces are mobilized to paint the picture of the African as an eternal slave of the white man. ... The first evidence of a black presence in the America was given to Columbus by the Indians themselves: more >>

Hillary Clinton and 2016 ...Not Yet Uhuru

MICHAEL NNEBE, (Nigeriaworld) - Given my sincere admiration for the likes of Thatcher, Hillary Clinton, and Okonjo Iweala among others, one may assume that I would be rooting for Hillary come 2016. Well, it is one thing to cheer for someone, but part of my responsibility is to analyse things as they are, and as they are likely to be. Every poll today coming out of America puts Hillary at a good forty to forty-five points ahead of the nearest Presidential contender. more >>

A letter to The House Committee for Nigerians in Diaspora

CHRISTOPHER C. ONYEKURU, Barcelona, Spain (Nigeriaworld) - There is also the imminent pressure to send money home, even when some of us are not doing anything. And it has contributed to forcing majority into illegal activities. And many have as a result found themselves in long term prison sentences, having been caught stealing, defrauding or dealing in hard drugs. I strongly believe that our hardship is self-inflicted. more >>

MASSOB/alleged treason: A mockery of justice system in Nigeria

THEO OKPARAEBO, (Nigeriaworld) - Another incomprehensible aspect of the Supreme Court`s ironical directive to try the MASSOB leader and six others for treasonable felony with dispatch is the clause 'with dispatch'. One wonders what makes the non-violent MASSOB group special to be marked out for prosecution with dispatch when others with sophisticated weapons are being rewarded with amnesty. more >>

A mother: Of all the gifts that life has to offer, a loving mother is the greatest of them all

TEMPLE C. UBOCHI, Bonn, Germany (Nigeriaworld) - No wonder it has been said that 'a mother is she who can take the place of all others, but, whose place no one else can take'. ... Without the mothers, there wouldn't have been the continuous existence of human beings as procreation is only peculiar to them. God created human beings, but, handed them over to mothers to nourish to the end, so mothers are also an important part of the creation chain. more >>

The village head Professor of Law wants the Deji’s Kingdom cut in half to expand his own (Part I)

WUMI AKINTIDE, New York, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - If the Professor-turned Alaiyede Ogbese, a grade D Oba in Ondo State had any respect for history and due process, he would think twice before going on the slippery road to challenge the Deji’s authority on a land Akure had fought with blood and sweat to retain for Akure for as long as any of us can remember. more >>

Why I am involved in Returning Hope to Nigeria, and path for a better future for Abia state in 2015 (Conclusion)

E O EKE, (Nigeriaworld) - To get Nigeria right, the government must ensure that every Nigerian play by the same rule and that religion, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and circumstance of birth no longer give people undue advantage or disadvantage in life. The government will function in such a way that it will not worsen the condition of those with natural disadvantage while ensuring that those with natural advantage do not gain at the expense of those with natural disadvantage. more >>

Promoting the primacy of integrity

OMOZUWA G. OSAMWONYI, (Nigeriaworld) - Let it be said: We do not need violent revolution to move Nigeria forward. We do not need youths to chase politicians out of offices before everyone can truly enjoy the dividends of democracy. We do not need a campaign of violent negativism to bridge the high income inequality between the haves and have-nots. ... What we need is simple. more >>

ONYINYE'S MIRROR ON LIFE

Celebrating mothers (Poems)

ONYINYE OYEDELE, (Nigeriaworld) - We ''worry'' about hair. We are often ''stuck'' in the kitchen. We love fabrics and we remember our mothers tying wrapper! So let us celebrate some common experiences in, For Hair sake, Wrapper, and My mixing spoon. more >>

'FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING' SERIES

Converts, Clients, or Consumers: How roles are changing in the Nigerian Church (Part 2)

S. 'JIDE KOMOLAFE, (Nigeriaworld) - Protestant Christianity in mid-19th century Africa faced one of its greatest opportunities as well as one of its greatest challenges: the formulation of a hermeneutical pathway to Christian conversion as a private enterprise and the process of social-cultural change through a program of conversion that was strictly christocentric. Christianization focused not on the appropriation of local religious symbolism and practice but rather exclusively on the soteriological necessity of reconstituting indigenous spiritual experience. more >>

FROM THE PREACHER'S LENSES

Why does the righteous suffer (34): The dignity & glory in affliction (7)

SAM AWEDA, (Nigeriaworld)

World prophecy:- Virgin Mary's messages to the World/Jesus speaks/God appearing physically to Michelle the visionary woman from New Mexico USA -Jan, 2000 till date

OSAGIE C. ADUN, London, UK (Nigeriaworld) - When this Pope was consecrated in April 2005, our mother gave these messages concerning Pope Benedict XXVI, on the 23 April, 2005, to be precise, Mary gave the following information about the passing of the John Paul II and the newly elected pope (Benedict ). more >>

FEMI AJAYI'S OUTLOOK

Rotational Amnesty: An obscure way of Rotational Presidency

Prof. FEMI AJAYI, Ilishan, Nigeria (Nigeriaworld) - Is the pressure from the north for amnesty is as a result of an avenue to grab more oil allocation to the north? On the other hand, is it a replica of rotational presidency where the north says it is her turn to produce the next president of Nigeria? Is the Group saying that it is their turn to grab the amnesty, since the Niger Delta got it first? Is this a rotational amnesty after Niger Delta, now it is Boko Haram, then MOSSOP as Boko Haram has requested, then OPC would come up with its own style of amnesty as they too could be warming up for the Boko Haramites. Definitely, MEND will not be left out of the equation.... more >>

THE CHRISTIAN WALK

Satanic Accusations and Judging Nations, Communities and Cities at the Court of Divine Justice

MOSHOOD FAYEMIWO, Chicago, Illinois, USA (Nigeriaworld) - For those with spiritual knowledge, Satan doesn't accuse human beings of the sins of commission..., he also accuses human beings of sins of omission. The Bible says, he/she who knows the good he/she is supposed to do but doesn't do it sins (James 4: 17). Even among us born-again Christians, we emphasize too much on all those sins of commission (Exodus 20; Galatian 5: 19-21), but we often neglect the sins of omission-things we are supposed to do, which we neglect to do. ... Make no mistake about it, nations and countries too are going to be judged corporately just as individuals would be judged on the Great Day. more >>

Why I am involved in Returning Hope to Nigeria, and path for a better future for Abia state in 2015

E O EKE, (Nigeriaworld) - The available evidence would suggest that nowhere in Nigeria have the effects of corruption, impunity, criminal leadership and bad government been more devastating than in Abia state where there has been practically no real development since its creation and unimaginable deterioration of civil society. It has been a state where subsequent governments have simply tried to be better than the one it succeeded in all the indices of bad government. The result has been the disintegration in social fabrics.... more >>

Belgium ...The Nigerian Way

MICHAEL NNEBE, (Nigeriaworld) - For those in the Diaspora who have not spent time in Nigeria in the past ten to twenty years, the word ''Belgium'' is synonymous with used parts, especially used motor parts. I was incensed the first time my auto mechanic suggested I buy a used part as opposed to a new one. ''I beg your pardon, things have not reached that level for me yet,'' I explained with pride. But the mechanic quietly clarified to me that those used parts, no matter how old, always outlast the new ones made in Nigeria. more >>

The many sins of the NFF against Stephen Keshi

CYRIL C. NWOKEJI, Belgium (Nigeriaworld) - Successive administrations of the NFF, apparently, have a lot of problems dealing with Stephen Keshi. One takes note of the fact that ever since Stephen Keshi became a coach, successive NFF administrations, have shied away from appointing him chief coach of the Super Eagles. They have at best made him assistant coach, and have on a number of occassions denied him or tried to deny him the plum job of Chief coach of the Super Eagles, even when he was the most qualified for the job. more >>

Leave Governor Sullivan Chime alone

MICHAEL NNEBE, (Nigeriaworld) - It amazes me that some people in Enugu, and elsewhere in Nigeria, are busy fabricating the death of one who is still very much alive.... The irony here is that everything is being blamed on his political enemies. But his key political enemies, such as Jim Nwobodo, the Nwodo's and depending on who you ask, Ekweremandu, are all very refined people. I can honestly tell you that these men, regardless of your political opinion of them, are all too civilized to indulge in any such low levels of propaganda. more >>

FEMI AWODELE'S HOUSE CALL

Biblical Principles and Life Application XLI: What’s between Asking and Receiving?

FEMI AWODELE, USA (Nigeriaworld) - There is a concept or principle of relating with God that Jesus shared in Mathew 7: 7 and Luke 11: 9, but the principle was also shared by Moses (Deut. 4: 29) and Prophet Jeremiah (Jer. 29: 13) in the Old Testament, the principle is “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you”. There are theologies, scientific studies or doctrinal believes around Prayer, does God really answer prayer? more >>

Nigeria is Hell on Earth for majority of its citizens: Can the country ever be saved? (Conclusion)

TEMPLE C. UBOCHI, Bonn, Germany (Nigeriaworld) - Most of those who could have changed Nigeria for the better are outside the country; their kinds still in Nigeria are infinitesimal (in number) to make any impact. That’s why the generation of 1950-1959 are still holding sway in the country, messing everything up and jeopardizing the political, economic, social and cultural growth of the country. Members of the generations of 1960-1969 and 1970-1979 get only the brunt of everything that have gone wrong in Nigeria. Many members of these generations were driven out of the country, and they continue to remit huge sum of foreign currencies to Nigeria to sustain the country economically, thereby guaranteeing the uneasy peace still obtainable in the land. more >>

Those who come to Equity ...Gov. Amaechi and his problems

MICHAEL NNEBE, (Nigeriaworld) - Indications are that after Ibori and Sylva, Jonathan has now set his eyes on Governor Amaechi. A glance at the current sequence of events would undoubtedly attract sympathy for the Governor of Rivers State who seems to be currently under fire from all sides. For the record, I've never met Amaechi, but I like the man, for he appears to be one of the few forward thinking governors in Nigeria. more >>

Why I am circumspect about religion in Nigeria

E O EKE, (Nigeriaworld) - I often wonder if Nigerian Christians who hold their religious convictions as truth are aware of the many religious wars the Catholics and Protestants fought in Britain in the 17 century and the main reasons for this time of killing. I also wonder if they are aware that the dogmas they hold as absolute truth has been reinterpreted by those who brought it to them and the reason why people believe. more >>

Promoting the primacy of integrity

OMOZUWA G. OSAMWONYI, (Nigeriaworld) - A flip through history books shows that the influence of civilisations and nations start declining when the power class do not embody and express norms of ethical conducts. Such civilisations and nations eventually imploded. Rome did not fall by the sword. The decadence of her elite reduced her glory to rubbles. At present, Nigeria shows vital signs of a nation-state at the throes of implosion. more >>

Fr. Peter Okpaleke & the ''Ahiara Spring''

CHINEDU MBAWUIKE, (Nigeriaworld) - Much of the debate arising from the principled rejection of Fr. Peter Okpaleke as Bishop of Ahiara diocese centers on the attempt to unmask and expose the role played by ecclesiastical Godfathers from the Onitsha ecclesiastical metropolis to continually reward their cronies with vacant Episcopal positions in the South East and some places in the South West. Very little has been said about the man who ill-advisedly accepted this ill-inspired appointment. more >>

On miracles, magic, superstitions, delusions and Emmanuel Television

FEMI AKOMOLAFE, (Nigeriaworld) - Flipping through I stumble upon a channel totally out of this world in utter crappiness with the name of Emmanuel TV. I have watched my dose of ubber stupid TV shows but nothing comes close to what I saw on the channel that was said to belong to a Nigerian televangelist. In what goes for modern day miracles, I saw pastors go around congregation purportedly restoring sightlessness, reforming deformed limbs and making supposedly palsied patients start jumping after a touch from the hand of the man of god! more >>

The problem of Nigeria (1)

‘KUNLE FALOWO, Miami, Florida, USA (Nigeriaworld) - If the gods were to help solve the problem of Nigeria and we need them to tell us the truth about our problem so we can channel our resources to the right steps to solving the puzzle. We know god of truth always speaks truly, god of false always speaks falsely, but whether god of random speaks truly or falsely is a completely random matter. Now we have to find the right answers to: is tribalism the source of Nigerian problems? more >>

Jesus is about to walk the Earth a second time soon, by his apparition and messages through Michelle Rios Rice

OSAGIE C. ADUN, London, UK (Nigeriaworld) - GOD in his infinite MERCY, has sent Our Mother VIRGIN MARY to the world a number of times, specifically from the year 1917 onwards till date to warn the people of the earth about his unhappiness with us His children from turning our backs away from him. What happened two thousand years ago and beyond still continue to haunt the world. more >>

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