Author: Deji Okegbile

Historians and social commentators are virtually unanimous that the “age of Wesley (c. 1675-1830) was a time of transition within English society. [1] Bishop John Adeleke Bamgboye, the John Wesley of our time in the Nigerian context of political and spiritual transition knew the Lord in 1970 when he was a student in the school of Agriculture, Akure (1970-1972) through the instrumentality of Late Brother Oba and Ojeniyi, and Mike Oye (now Very Revd (Dr) Mike Oye). Bishop John Bamgboye hails from Aagba in Boripe Local Government of Osun State of Nigeria. He was born to Chief Joseph Ominiyi...

The election of the Reverend Professor Bolaji Idowu, a former head of the Department of Religion, University of Ibadan, on October 4 1972, as the President of Methodist Church Nigeria was a call to restore ‘the years that the locust has eaten.’[1] Talented with an unprecedented foresight and missional imaginations of things to come, during his service of investiture and consecration on January 20, 1973, he expressed the need for the ordering of the ministry, structure, and the image of the church. [2] He called for the review of the inherited constitution with emphasis on indigenisation of Nigerian Methodism....