Author: Deji Okegbile

Sir Ogunjuyigbe(KJW) ‘Lawyerization’ by Divine Providence: Congratulations on 40 years at Bar!

Sir Ogunjuyigbe(KJW) ‘Lawyerization’ by Divine Providence: Congratulations on 40 years at Bar!

Posted by | Aug 22, 2024 | , |

Sir Ezekiel Folorunso Ogunjuyigbe’s ‘lawyerization’ by Divine Providence remains a calling to focus and awaken ‘the declining influence of divine providence and punishment as a guarantee of truthfulness and’ spiritual and emotional integrity. Sir Ogunjuyigbe’s 40 years at the Bar brings to the fore law and providence as ‘the most fundamental issues in understanding the world, such as the relationship between spirit and matter, the connection between the laws of nature and divine providence and the openness to the world to the involvement of God and man.’ Sir Ogunjuyigbe’s decision and call to read law and became a lawyer...

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DAME OGUNNAIKE @70: STEWARDSHIP THROUGH DUAL MAJOR, Combining Physiology and Accounting in serving God and humanity.

DAME OGUNNAIKE @70: STEWARDSHIP THROUGH DUAL MAJOR, Combining Physiology and Accounting in serving God and humanity.

Posted by | Jul 31, 2024 | |

Dame Adetutu Oluwatobi Ogunnaike’s dual major in physiology and accounting provides an exciting and potentially beneficial combination of God’s mission, evangelism, and service to humanity. Dame Ogunnaike was born in Lagos on July 31st, 1954, to active Methodist parents attending Tinubu Methodist Church as it was known then. Dame Ogunnaike’s father, Mr Martin Adeoye Adesanya, was a Lay Preacher and Conference Legal Adviser. Her mother, Mrs. Victoria Oluwapamilerin Adesanya, was a Class Leader, Society Steward, Lay Preacher and President of the Women’s Fellowship. She was also the first Captain of the Girls’ Brigade in Tinubu Church. Dame Ogunnaike had...

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BISHOP JOHN ADELEKE BAMGBOYE @80: The John Wesley of Our Time!

BISHOP JOHN ADELEKE BAMGBOYE @80: The John Wesley of Our Time!

Posted by | Jul 7, 2024 | |

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...

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Sir Keir Starmer, the New Prime Minister, United Kingdom: Prayer and Call for National Renewal.

Sir Keir Starmer, the New Prime Minister, United Kingdom: Prayer and Call for National Renewal.

Posted by | Jul 5, 2024 | |

In his speech at the Tate Modern art gallery in central London today, Sir Keir Starmer, the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, declared that ‘service is the precondition for hope.’ According to him, ‘Change begins now. And it feels good, I have to be honest. Four-and-a-half years of work changing the party. This is what it is for. A changed Labour party ready to serve our country. Ready to restore Britain to the service of working people. The Prime Minister agreed that a mandate like this comes with great responsibility. Our task is nothing less than renewing...

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FORWARD TO THE PAST, ASABA RETREAT @50: Centre for Bolaji Idowu Studies!

FORWARD TO THE PAST, ASABA RETREAT @50: Centre for Bolaji Idowu Studies!

Posted by | Jun 15, 2024 | |

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....

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