As we continue to insist on the role of the youth in the project of a better Nigeria, we think that there is a need to propose some role models who, for socio-historical reasons, share the same reality with Nigerian youths. From all indications, Malala Yousafzai is one of those youths from whom Nigerian youths can learn a lot. Here is a nice article on this very issue: Nigerian girl child…
(Vatican Radio) The 2012 Pax Christi International Peace Award was presented on Wednesday to Nigerian Archbishop John Onaiyekan for his tireless efforts in promoting understanding and dialogue in Africa between people of different faiths. Onaiyekan, who has been archbishop of Abuja since 1994, was named last week as one of six Catholic leaders who will be created cardinal in a forthcoming consistory here in the Vatican on November 24th.The Co-Presidents of Pax…
Another master piece is about to see the light of the day. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the author of The Purple Hibiscus, The thing around your neck, and The Half of a Yellow Moon is about to publish her Novel: Amaricanah. Chimamanda set to release third novel by NEHRU ODEH Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning Nigerian writer who shot to prominence with her novels, Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun, is…
I am happy to present you one of the latest speeches of my great mentor and literary model, Chimamanda Adiche. Just in her normal way of passing information, she has just done it, in this her speech presented in Nordic African Institute. I would not want to bore you with many words since any time you take in reading them will be a delay. Enjoy the company of this great Nigerian literary…
In their famously controversial book, The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, described religion as the opium of the people which, when taken in right dosage, benumbs the body and soul to suffering, shame and sin. The church, especially in Nigeria, has been so emblematic of the Marxian prognostication and turned otherwise educated men and women into robotic wimps, manipulated by pastor, prophets and prophetesses and recounting sometimes meaningless supplications to…
My initial reaction is of gratitude to God, says Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan of Abuja, Nigeria. He is one of the six men – the only one from Africa – who will be created cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI during the November 24th Consistory, announced earlier Wednesday by the Pope himself. He spoke to Vatican Radio’s Helene Destombes just after the announcement on the sidelines of the Synod of Bishops for the…
Vatican City, October 24 – Pope Benedict XVI is to name six new cardinals, Benedict said in an unexpected move during his general audience Wednesday. There are no Italians among the six, reversing a recent trend towards upping the number of Italians among the prelates who will elect Benedict’s successor. The new high-ranking Church officials, in their current roles, are: James Michael Harvey, Prefect of the Pontifical House; Mar Bechara Boutros al-Rahi,…
The biggest country in Africa that the United Kingdom colonised is Nigeria. The biggest country that the United Kingdom colonised in Asia is India (which then comprised the present Pakistan and Bangladesh). When the UK came into Nigeria and India, like all other countries they colonised, they brought along their technology, religion (Christianity), and culture: names, dressing, food, and language, among others. Try as hard as the British did, India rejected the…
Photo Courtesy of Sahara Reporters For an effective program of evangelisation to take proper root today and for us to avoid the mistakes of the past, a proper reading of our collective national history is inevitable. This phase of history has been so distorted that this now has serious implications today in how Muslims and Christians see one another and read their histories. For example, many Islamic scholars have often created the…
“Membership, Places and Means In the Transmission of the Christian Faith,” Intervention at the Synod of Bishops on The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith by Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo Bishop of Oyo, Nigeria. Chapter 3 of the Instrumentum Laboris on Transmission of the Faith reflects on the Membership, Places and Means of transmission in the New Evangelization. I address mainly nos 92-95. I have three points:1.The Church in Nigeria…
