“FRATELLI TUTTI”:SHORT SUMMARY OF POPE FRANCIS’S SOCIAL ENCYCLICAL
Fraternity and social friendship are the ways the Pontiff indicates to build a better, more just and peaceful world, with the contribution of all: people and institutions. With an emphatic confirmation of a ‘no’ to war and to globalized indifference.…
NIGERIA AT 60: A CALL TO HOPE
I want to first thank God Almighty the Father of all creation and the maker of Heaven and earth. Strange as it may sound, I would like to thank the colonial masters who wove our diverse peoples together and for all the efforts that they put into ensuring…
NIGERIA AT 60: ARE THE GODS TO BLAME?
According to a popular African saying, “A man who does not know where the rain began to beat him cannot say where he dried his body.” Unarguably, in the words of the renowned African writer, Chinua Achebe, “the rain that beat us as Africans began…
SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMME SCAM: WHY GOVERNMENT IS CULPABLE.
“We Discovered N2.67bn COVID-19 School Feeding Money In Personal Accounts” —ICPC. The National Dailies of today September 29, 2020 are replete with stories of how the “The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences…
I’LL BE THERE
“This sounds like a love song…” a friend said to me, when she first heard the draft of “I’ll be there.” I couldn’t agree less. It is indeed a love song; from God to you and me. More about this inspiring song in a bit.…
DEMONS TEXTING US!
Demons love tech, just like any bunch of adolescents. Before the cell phone was invented, they would mess with lights in a house or the television or other electrical appliances (and still do). People would come to us saying their house was infested…
SCARRED AND SCARED!
Cleo was abused at the age of ten, but she couldn’t bring herself to tell anyone because of threats from her abuser. So she kept her worst nightmares to herself without letting anyone in. Aside the threats, she was scared of societal…
UWAILA’S MURDER: WILL JUSTICE BE SERVED?
“Justice delayed, is justice denied.” One of the tragedies of our beloved nation is that very often issues are easily swept under the carpet. That alone is proof that corruption is worse in Nigeria, than in many other nations of the world. It…
CREATIVE WRITERS’ CHALLENGE: WINNERS
It’s been many months of duelling, to arrive at the best creative writers of our competition on the theme of ‘The Adverse Effects of COVID-19 on a Poor Nigerian Family. Recall that we called for submissions on May 30, 2020, for our maiden…
ARCHBISHOP OF ABUJA RECEIVES 2ND PALLIUM
The Archbishop of Abuja, His Grace, Most Reverend Ignatius Kaigama received the pallium today, August 27, 2020, at the hands of His Excellency, Archbishop Antonio Guido Fillipazzi, Apostolic Nuncio to Nigeria, at Our Lady Queen of Nigeria Pro-Cathedral…