This year’s World Earth Day, commemorated last Saturday, April 22, was a special one. The vivid colours shone the brightest from London. Humans dressed up to look like animals and plants. You see them in all hues – toads, trees, teddies and termites. Families hold hands and walk among the mobile camouflage. Children chuckle and chime, asking their parents for answers as they see their favourite TV stars brandish banners of eco-protest. One of them by the popular British actor, Pedro Pascal, which says “The planet is getting hotter than Pedro!”
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As the inauguration of the next Nigerian legislature, termed the 10th National Assembly, draws near, different people and groups have started plotting to emerge leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Arguments based on zonal and religious balancing have been pushed forward by different individuals and groups to favour them. One of such is that the Senate presidency should be zoned to the South-East for the sake of equity and justice. However, the call for the South-East to produce the Senate president actually runs against equ
Read MoreFollowing the recent concluded general elections in Nigeria, it is obvious that both INEC and APC have no surviving souls respectively. The soul, yes, I mean the soul. No one in the world of matter, energy, space and time can plunge deeply into the realm of the soul without wise guides. Years of lone wolf exploration of philosophy, mythology, religion, poetry, literature, art and music went into the creation of so many volumes on the soul. Yes to fathom the unfathomable soul we immediately plunge into mysteries. According to the Gree...
Read MoreThere is something about truth that makes it more interesting than fiction. Truth is undying and very axiomatic that the only way to destroy it is to define it. If one defines truth, he limits it. This article is but an attempt to re-examine the cosmic cycle associated with the spiritual indaba of Christ in this era. I must confess hitherto that the Christian concept of ‘Immaculate Conception’ has been a controversial issue in every aspects of human history. In the history of Religion, it has taken different dimension to the extent that thos...
Read MoreAnthony de Mello in one of his witty reflections on ‘Imprisonment’ once said: “you are so proud of your intelligence,’ said the Master to a disciple. ‘You are like the condemned man who is proud of the vastness of his prison cell.” Whenever I reflect on this saying, my mind these days go around the concept of political corruption in Nigeria in general, the dogged efforts and determinations of the present Head of State in tackling the malaise. An old French friend I met decades back in the Philippines would say ‘pourquoi pas?’- Why not? Why w
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