“Only in humility can one receive. He who stands in arrogance before the one from whom he seeks has already blocked the channel towards receiving…….” Culture teaches, culture uplifts. In the heart of Africa lies the abode of the Yorubas. Here in Yorubaland they live with unique cultural practices. Prominent…

THE intricacies of the interwoven events in human lives are most often so intriguing and striking that one cannot but seek for explanations and clarity. A grandmother and her granddaughter went through life not seeing eye-to-eye. It was a life filled with conflict, tussles and discord. The granddaughter came to…

Slavery is unnatural. He who enslaves binds the spirit of the enslaved. Every binding of the spirit is a crime against the spirit. SLAVERY! What an act of man’s inhumanity to man! Cruel, inhumane, dastardly and atrocious to say the least. …

For man, the decision is indeed free, the consequence is however binding and unswerving. But man is meant to mature through every act of his Free Will. THE current, worldwide emotional turbulence and chaos brought on the train of the rampant distortion of information and facts is mind boggling. We…

Man often believes he is smart in his actions but how far indeed he is from wisdom!! Years ago, in the dark age of exorbitant cost of phone usage in Nigeria, a young man sat by his friend, amazed; watching him, speaking for hours on the phone with a party…

“Rest in Peace” is a common epitaph on tombstones. Rest in Peace! Human resting while Angels are in joyful activities? What a thought! Activities have once been described as elixir-of-life and experience have indeed shown that a life devoid of activities, for all intents and purposes is dead. Activities strengthen…

Creation and Evolution; Resolving the Supposed Dissonance “…Thus, in the biblical creation story lies two events, interlaced. They are like two pictures superimposed on one another on a photographic plate. Only when one examines the composite deeply can one see the two distinct pictures” A THUNDERBOLT of a statement: “For…

World in the Web of Words HOW appropriate is the use of the expression; “It’s just words”? One hears it so often, one cannot but reflect on it. In the expression itself lies an undertone of a gross misunderstanding of the nature of words. It is usually expressed with a…

“A true shepherd leads the flock of sheep back to the stable after grazing and strengthening, not leaving them bonded onto the grazing field.” Sometimes in 1988, a young man stood in his cosmopolitan Lagos, Nigeria neighborhood, pensively shaking his head: Booming voices of pastors, loud singing and clapping were…