Why ‘Useless’ Nigerian Pastors Disappoint Charly Boy’s Activism Anticipation
By Ugochukwu Ugwuanyi Veteran musician and social crusader, Charles Oputa, alias Charly Boy, made headlines two days ago after claiming in a podcast interview that 99 per cent of pastors in Nigeria are useless! The 75-year-old maverick entertainer based his assertion on the failure of the clergymen to tackle Nigeria’s political leadership over the […]
Jelly Roll’s Grammys Speech Reminds of Freshly-minted President Buhari By Ugochukwu Ugwuanyi Just like “fuel subsidy is gone” announcement dominated discourse post inauguration ceremony of President Bola Tinubu, what trended from his predecessor’s swearing in was arguably the: “I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody” proclamation. That was a classic doublespeak – […]
The Gospel According to Donald Trump!
By Ugochukwu Ugwuanyi The caption seems so antithetical that yours truly risks being accused of blasphemy for assigning to the United States President the classic introduction of Bible reading in an Orthodox service. It should, however, be placatory that ‘Saint’ wasn’t added to the man’s first name for a complementary effect. But then, what […]
Whither World Leaders’ Contemplation of AI as a Jesus Replacement?
By Ugochukwu Ugwuanyi This extrapolatory perspective may be quite a stretch, but if you follow carefully, you’ll see that there is a premise to the surmise. At the just-concluded World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Yuval Noah Harari, a distinguished research fellow at the University of Cambridge Center for the Study of Existential Risk, shared some startling thoughts adopted by the […]
Like Mahatma Gandhi, like Anthony Joshua
By Ugochukwu Ugwuanyi What could have united the Indian freedom fighter, Mahatma Gandhi, and the British-Nigerian boxing champion, Anthony Joshua, fondly called AJ, in a sentence, you may be wondering. Well, they met in the mind when the latter paused and turned his thoughts towards eternity. Joshua, who held the unified heavyweight championship twice between 2017 and 2021, emerged […]
Can Korede Komaiya’s Critics Follow a Poor Pastor?
By Ugochukwu Ugwuanyi No rest for the weary, they say. While still fine-tuning my last article, I was imbued with the thrust and thoughts of this opinion piece. I had felt the need to give my readers a breather, but the propelling force behind the assignments pointed me to what must be written in […]
A Day After the Uromi Murder…
Abdullahi O Haruna Haruspice The charred remains of the slain Kano hunters have been buried. Perhaps the peace they couldn’t find on earth will come to their souls now, for they did not die in their natural state but in a hurried and brutal fate. Dying while fasting may offer some consolation to the 16 […]
OF MACRON AND HIS FAILED GAMBLE
The Political destiny of a nation just like the windmill of the gods, grinds slowly, slowly. It is more like a marathon – as in Camilla’s love for Prince, now King Charles. It is genuine, palpable and runs in the marrows. It triumphs in the end. The patient dog, always wins the race. The National […]
A Struggle for Self-Determination and Justice Amidst Genocidal Aggression”An appeal to UN, AU and World Conscience.
The homelands of the Ambazonia, the Anglophone Peoples of Southern Cameroons are currently an occupied territory, being buffeted right, left, front and back by the assault rifles of aggressors (the Republic of Cameroun) who are hell bent to tear the peoples from their moorings. The peoples could not be less described than sorrow personified, reeling […]
IS ROME WEDDED TO HER APOSTASY
IS ROME WEDDED TO HER APOSTASY? Bishop Carlo Maria Vigano has always warned the Church against the disposition of Pope Francis and Vigano is not a man of small standing in the Catholic Church. He was at a time the Vatican’s Apostolic Pronuncio to the United States – the Vatican Ambassador to the US. In […]
