MARRIED TOO YOUNG?
I don’t want to shake this table. I intend to break it. No! Not because I’m better than anyone else, but because it’s God’s truth. As I went through some status updates on my phone a while ago, I saw one that instantly caught my…
THE VALENTINE CRAZE
A friend of mine once remarked that the titles of my reflections could pass for Nollywood movie captions, and I went, “seriously?” I couldn’t tell if it was a compliment or not, but you know me nah? I eventually took it as a compliment…
72 YEAR OLD VINCENTIAN PRIEST NOMINATED FOR NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
Vatican News reports that Lazarist missionary, Fr. Pedro Opeka has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work among the poor in Madagascar. In the article written by Lisa Zengarini, “The Argentinian-Slovenian Lazarist missionary Father…
We Move!
First of all, I would like to say that may the souls of all our #EndSars soldiers we have lost in this fight rest in peace and may healing come to Nigeria. It is very important for us all to look at the question and ask ourselves “how did we get here?”…
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.…
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…
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…
BEWARE OF PEER PRESSURE
‘Teenagers have got funny habits these days’, I said to myself one day as I browsed through Facebook. But then it occurred to me that teenagers of today are only being influenced by their peers and pop culture, just as we were before them.…
WHERE WILL DEATH MEET ME?
“An unexamined life is not worth living” (Socrates) It was the great German philosopher, Martin Heidegger who wrote in his famous philosophical book, ‘Being and Time’, that man is a being unto death. This means that as soon as one…
MY KIDNAP EXPERIENCE!
At about 2.30pm on Thursday, July 9, when I passed the infamous exact spot where kidnappers were known to usually pick up their victims on the Benin/Ekpoma road, I expressed a sigh of relief as I always do after passing that spot. But this time with some…