Views: 65I was compelled to be very harsh on one of my sons recently; and for the next few days he avoided me. It was as if he thought I hated him. I hated what he did, but not him! Humans have always had problems distinguishing between hatred for the action; and hatred for the […]

Views: 123“O Happy Day”, Methodist hymn 744 (GBH 61), was authored by Philip Doddridge. Philip Doddridge (born in London, England, 1702; died in Lisbon, Portugal, 1751) belonged to the Non-conformist Church whose members were frequently the focus of discrimination, because they were not associated with the Church of England. He was offered education by a […]

Views: 46Fencing is a combat sport in which winning points are made through the weapon’s contact with an opponent. Fencing was one of the first sports to be played in the Olympics. It is based on the traditional skills of sword fighting. Fencers wear uniforms that cover them from head to toe; reinforced in certain […]

Views: 44“The human species will likely destroy itself long before the sun kills everyone on Earth, A Harvard scientist says!” screams the headline in Aylin Woodward’s November 2019 article posted on the Business Insider Africa website. In the article, he wrote, “One day, billions of years in the future, the sun will destroy our planet. […]

Views: 47Roots TV Nigeria carried a news item some time back in which seven airport staff were arrested and arraigned by the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). They were arrested for planting hard drugs in the luggage of unsuspecting travelers at the Aminu Kano International airport in Kano. The cartel was discovered during the investigation […]

Views: 42“What do you think of modern day Christianity?” This was the question one of my brothers posted on Facebook recently.  I usually avoid commenting publicly on such questions. But when my brother reached out to me privately to comment, I obliged him. Among other things, this is what I said. “Someone once asked me […]