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CLASS DIVISION, SOCIAL STRATIFICATION, AND GOD’S POSITION (part 1)
CULTURE, ETHNOCENTRISM, TRIBALISM, SOCIAL SEGREGATION, AND GOD’S POSITION “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man, true nobility is in being superior to your former self.”- Hemingway As a social scientist I like to study human behavior, as well as the theories that seek to explain them. One of such theories is […]
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Westernization, Modernization, Post-Modernism and the Path to Progress I
WESTERNIZATION, MODERNIZATION, POST-MODERNISM & THE PATH TO PROGRESS (part 1) I want to highlight a very important topic and begin the discussion of it today. The world today is divided by such terms as the First world, Second andThird world; there once were only Developed countries and Developing countries, then someone added a third group […]
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ENEMIES OF GOD
ENEMIES OF THE FAITH “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” James 4:4 One of the things that is likely to strike the reader of this article would be the image […]
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The Directorate of State Services and the Fulani Herdsmen problem
THE DSS STATEMENT AND THE FULANI HERDSMEN PROBLEM This writer knows a reasonable amount of well educated and well intentioned Hausa-Fulani. This article puts to light the same things a hood number of them have commented against. Throughout history the major premise of violent conflict has always been the contention for resources. People groups, communities, […]
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WHY GOD DOES NOTHING WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN
WHY GOD DOES NOT INTERVENE WHERE IS GOD WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN? “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘thy will be done.’”- C.S Lewis A plane crashes in the Alps instantly killing hundreds […]
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HURRICANE TRUMP: STOPPING THIS NATURAL DISASTER
Populism is a doctrine that appeals to the interests and conceptions, especially hopes and fears, of the general population. Political parties and politicians often use the terms “populist” and “populism” as pejoratives against their opponents. What this means is that populism is merely empathising with the majority of the public, (usually through rhetoric or “unrealistic” […]
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7 SIMPLE STEPS TO STAYING ALIVE AND AVERTING AN ACCIDENT IN THE EVENT OF A TYRE BLOW OUT
7 SIMPLE STEPS TO STAYING ALIVE AND AVERTING AN ACCIDENT IN CASE OF A TYRE BLOWOUT. On the 6th of March, the Nigerian people were slapped in the face with the abrupt, tragic, yet totally avoidable demise of a top ranking government official. After the unfortunate death of Nigeria’s Minister of State for Labour and […]
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ON ESE ORURU: A PERSPECTIVE
Adam Johnson is a professional footballer whose career had seen him play for English Premier League clubs like Manchester City F.C, and Sunderland F.C; his contract with Sunderland was recently cancelled on the strength of his sexual involvement with a 15 year old girl. It has since been discovered that this young lady led him […]
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The Monastic Cycle: After God’s Blessing
THE MONASTIC CYCLE: WHAT USUALLY COMES AFTER PROSPERITY AND SUCCESS One day a friend of mine called me up from the U.S to ask me a question. He had something that was bothering him, he said, and he needed to discuss this with me. He had a friend of his who had lived in Nigeria […]
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I Remember: Going Down Memory Lane
THE DOWNWARD TREND AND DECLINE IN EVERYTHING THAT MATTERS I grew up in the 70s and the 80s. I have a lot of memories. I remember how a lot of things used to be back then, and many of those things I remember with nostalgia. Coming back home from primary school in the early 80s […]