“MAKING YOUR OWN MONEY WILL SAVE YOU FROM UNNECESSARY SEX”
Some days ago, I went on Twitter to see ‘what’s trending’, as I usually do from time to time. While scrolling up and down a couple of tweets, I came across one by Naira Marley, on his official Twitter handle; “Girls, make your own…
“JUST LIE TO HER, WOMEN LOVE LIES!”
This was what a friend said to another, in answer to the question he was asked on how best to relate his unfaithfulness to his spouse. Majority of men believe women love lies. So they keep feeding them those lies till something breaks and they’re…
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…
CATHOLIC BISHOPS CALL FOR A MONTH OF PRAYERS FOR PEACEFUL ELECTIONS IN EDO STATE
In a letter addressed to all Catholics and the people of Edo State, the Catholic Bishops of Benin City Archdiocese, Auchi Diocese and Uromi Diocese, have issued an urgent call on all Christ’s faithful to pray against violence in the forth coming…
HOW REPENTANT CAN EX BOKO HARAMITES BE?
“The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of terror.” Who should be rehabilitated, and reintegrated back to society? Is it the self-acclaimed repentant Boko Haram members, or the victims of Boko Haram attacks? To answer this question, it is…
BISHOP OGUN CREATES HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC MASS CENTRE FOR UROMI DIOCESE
The erstwhile St Michael Catholic Church, Usugbenu; an outstation under Annunciation Catholic Church, Irrua has been raised to the status of a Mass Centre, with the new name Holy Family Catholic Mass Centre, Usugbenu. The now autonomous Mass Centre will…
POPE FRANCIS APPOINTS SIX WOMEN TO OVERSEE VATICAN FINANCES
The National Catholic Reporter and The Guardian News online report that Pope Francis has appointed six women to oversee the Vatican’s finances. Among those chosen is Ruth Kelly, the former Labour minister. This appointment puts them in the most senior…
IS PEACE POSSIBLE IN A VIOLENT WORLD?
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; and do not be afraid” (John 14:27). Sometime in March 2020, during one of my counseling sessions for a family that lost some…
DEPRESSED?
Suicide has become more rampant in Nigeria. But that’s not what scares me. I’m terrified that many still think that ‘suicide is not Nigerian’. I wasn’t even aware suicide had a nationality in the first place. It’s the…
WHO DID OUR MOTHERS CURSE?
Recently, I stumbled on a video on social media. Apparently, many mothers in Uromi, Esan North East Local Government Area of Edo State, had gone to the palace of the Onojie to lay curses on anyone who was against the progress of their sons and daughters.…