Matters of the Moment

Scrolling through my alma mater WhatsApp group platform, Ilesa Grammar School Ilesa, I saw the news that the Federal government is proposing legislation to ban the consumption of animal skin,...

Why pray if you can work? Why work if you can pray? At the background of these polemical questions is the wrong presumption that prayer and work are mutually exclusive....

I was just doing my own jeje sometime in 2007 when my then Parish Priest at St. Agnes Catholic Church Maryland, Lagos, Rev. Fr. Raphael Adebayo called me to say...

The gruesome and cold-blooded murder of Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, is an ominous sign of abuse of religion. Deborah’s violent death by...

Highlighting grey areas in the message for the Church in Africa Titled "Listening with the ear of the heart," Pope Francis' 56th World Communications' Day (WCD) message has a lot...

The founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo recently made headlines when he broke the news that the Catholic Church has the most organised structure on earth. The...

Many people still misinterpret the section of St Paul’s letter to Timothy where he stated that “the LOVE of money is the ROOT of all evil” (Emphasis mine), (1Tim 6:10)....

It was frustration for social media users worldwide recently as the services of WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram went down. The outage commenced from about 4.30pm Nigerian time on that fateful...

It has not been easy writing about the death of Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru, the Chief of Army Staff, who was one of the 11 military men who died in...

For the first time in Cuba, in almost 70 years, Castro is not the name of the Head of State and Government. The majority of Cubans who are alive today...