Author: Deji Okegbile

WINNIE MANDELA, MOTHER OF NATION: THE SOUL AND PUBLIC FACE OF ANTI- APARTHEID STRUGGLE

WINNIE MANDELA, MOTHER OF NATION: THE SOUL AND PUBLIC FACE OF ANTI- APARTHEID STRUGGLE

Posted by | Apr 13, 2018 | , |

The years of imprisonment hardened me. Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn’t be as blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life . . . I no longer have the emotion of fear. There is no longer anything I can fear. There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn’t any pain I haven’t known – Winnie Mandela In preparation for the state funeral of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on...

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WHEN JESUS APPEARS: Living and leading in the Power of Resurrection.

WHEN JESUS APPEARS: Living and leading in the Power of Resurrection.

Posted by | Apr 8, 2018 | |

The scriptural texts for today summons us to a Post-Easter encounter of what we now ought to be doing in the light of the reality of the power of Jesus’ resurrection. We are called to experience and manifest concrete implications of what happens when Jesus appears, when resurrection takes hold of our lives and community. In the Gospel, we read about the reality of resurrection when Jesus appears to us. Mary is our first consideration of what happens when Jesus appears to us. According to the resurrection account, Mary was seating outside the empty tomb weeping and looking into...

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PETER OZODO @ 70: A PIONEER OF CHARISMATIC MISSIONS IN NORTHERN NIGERIA.

PETER OZODO @ 70: A PIONEER OF CHARISMATIC MISSIONS IN NORTHERN NIGERIA.

Posted by | Apr 7, 2018 | , , |

The secular world we live in has little but temporary place for the eternal just as the eternal which will last forever has no place for the temporary materialistic and secular world. It therefore requires courage, zeal and unfaltering devotion of spirit, soul, mind and heart to Jesus to be a missionary in the secular and materialistic world and especially in the most Muslim dominated Northern Nigeria. Dr Peter Ozodo, a pioneer and still active missionary with others lost every bit of their temporal comforts but never let their Christian faith go in vain but, ‘with a clear mandate...

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TRIBUTE TO SIR ADEOLA OLUFON: A WORTHY PILLAR IN WESLEY CATHEDRAL, OLOWOGBOWO

TRIBUTE TO SIR ADEOLA OLUFON: A WORTHY PILLAR IN WESLEY CATHEDRAL, OLOWOGBOWO

Posted by | Apr 5, 2018 | |

I join my entire Wesley Cathedral, Olowogbowo family in Lagos to celebrate the transition of Sir Adeola Olufon, a man of integrity. The Methodist hymn by Charles Wesley, ‘Uphold me Saviour, or I fall, O reach me out thy gracious hand. Only on thee for help I call, Only by faith on thee I stand’ (MHB 478) summarised the physical, professional, marital, and spiritual life of Sir Adeola Olufon, a reputable Real Estate Surveyor and Valuer. Born, almost 70 years ago, Sir Olufon attended and graduated from the University of Ife (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife) Nigeria with Bachelor’s Degree, Estate Management...

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MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr, ‘Apostle of Nonviolence’: 50 YEARS AFTER  HIS ASSASSINATION

MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr, ‘Apostle of Nonviolence’: 50 YEARS AFTER  HIS ASSASSINATION

Posted by | Apr 3, 2018 | , , , |

“I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord” – Martin Luther King Jr Fifty years ago, April 4, 1968, a leap year, a Baptist minister and founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. 50 years after, the assassination still tragically reverberates...

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