KEMI
Chapter Twelve Mangodo moved closer to Ivy. Her eyelids weren’t moving. Suddenly she began shaking violently. Was she having a seizure? What had gone wrong? He brought out his phone, scrolled through his contact list rapidly and dialed a number. He…
DON’T BE HYPOCRITES!
Wednesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time. Year II. Reflection by Rev Fr Oselumhense Anetor (Uromi Diocese) 2 Kings 2:1,6-14; Matt. 6:1-6,16-18 Someone once said of Christians, that they are the most hypocritical set of Christians he had ever seen.…
FIRST FLOYD, NOW BROOKS: BLACK LIVES MATTER
An African American man, Rayshard Brooks (27-year-old), was shot and killed by an Atlanta Police Department officer on the evening of June 12, 2020. In the police body cam video released to the public, Brooks had been sleeping at a drive through, before…
OFFER THE WICKED MAN NO RESISTANCE?
Monday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time. Year II. Reflection by Rev Fr Oselumhense Anetor (Uromi Diocese) I Kings 21:1-16; Matt. 5:38-42 Today’s readings seem to present us with two extremes. We have Ahab whose ‘longer throat’ was…
KEMI
Chapter Eleven Kemi walked into the building, a bit unsure of herself. The last place she wanted to be on planet earth, right now, was Alexis Domus, Alexis Lane, Victoria Island, Lagos. The kind of guys that worked here were those who had many of her…
WHEN WE HIT BOTTOM!
Several years ago (I was quite little at the time), I read a novel entitled “The Horse Whisperer”. It was about a little girl who had a horse. Apart from her mom, there was no other living creature she loved more. Her horse loved her just as…
HOLY COMMUNION
A Saintly priest had a devout parishioner who developed a habit of leaving the Church before the end of Mass. One day, while the parishioner was leaving the Church, the priest asked two altar servers with lighted candles to accompany him and a third…
DO NOT DIE IN THEIR WAR: THE EDO STATE SAGA
Preamble If you know the man called Dele Farotimi, then chances are that you have stumbled on his relatively recent book, ‘Do not Die in their War‘. In Femi Onileagbon’s review of the book, he says, “The author tells his truth…and…
KEMI
Chapter Ten Mangodo couldn’t remember the last time he was in Church. It was not that he didn’t believe in God. He simply thought his brand of spirituality didn’t require Church attendance. He wasn’t a priest. What was he supposed…
27 YEARS AFTER JUNE 12 1993: WHERE IS THE HOPE?
Growing up, I learnt from the penny Catechism of the Catholic Church that “Hope is a supernatural gift of God, by which we firmly trust that God will give us eternal life and all means necessary to obtain it, if we do what He requires of us” (“What is…