Author: Deji Okegbile

FATHERING IN THE LAST DAYS AND CULTURE OBSESSED BY SEX.

FATHERING IN THE LAST DAYS AND CULTURE OBSESSED BY SEX.

Posted by | Jun 16, 2019 | , , , |

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people – 2 Tim 3:1-5 We are in a very difficult time for Christian mission, service, marriage, parenting and most especially fathering. We are in the last days and culture characterised by sinfulness,...

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TRANSGRESSION OF JUNE 12: Call for Intercession.

TRANSGRESSION OF JUNE 12: Call for Intercession.

Posted by | Jun 12, 2019 | , |

June 12, 1993 remains the day the Nigerian military as an institution was shown the red card to quit and allow democratic rule to reign in Nigeria. Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale. Abiola of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) won the elections, though the final results were never officially announced. June 12, 1993 electoral victory of Chief Abiola can be likened to the show of shame of Goliath before David. The military never believed that the arm of flesh will fail them. Babangida miscalculated on the signs of the time. He called a political assembly he did not believe in....

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OLOSU OF OSU, LOJA OMOLADE ADEYOKUNNU, 30 Years after: Simple but stylish.

OLOSU OF OSU, LOJA OMOLADE ADEYOKUNNU, 30 Years after: Simple but stylish.

Posted by | Jun 11, 2019 | , |

On this day, thirty years ago, 11th June, 1989, Loja Omolade Adeyokunnu, the third Loja of Osu, the Headquarter, Atakumosa West Local Government, Osun State ‘answered the imperative call of death, having spent seventeen years on the throne.’ The history of Osu as a community ‘is a conglomerate of separately founded homesteads (Apoles) or camps by warriors and hunters mostly of Ijesa in origin.’ Dire Goke Arimoro, in one of his books, Osu from the Cradle explained that many of these homesteads had been founded in the late 17th and 18th centuries. According to him, ‘the amalgamation of the...

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Beware of Dry-Eye Leadership: Time to Weep Between the Porch and the Altar.

Beware of Dry-Eye Leadership: Time to Weep Between the Porch and the Altar.

Posted by | May 27, 2019 | , |

“Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, spare Thy people O Lord, and give not Thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them. Wherefore should they say among the people, Where is your God?” – Joel 2:17 Solomon wrote, “There is time to laugh and time to weep.”  The reflection is that, the Christian life is one of tears, ‘a life of a broken heart.’ There is crying in leadership. Many may see crying as a sign of emotional instability or lack of self-control. Jesus...

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Very Rev Prof Konyin Ajayi (SAN): Learned Silk @ 60

Very Rev Prof Konyin Ajayi (SAN): Learned Silk @ 60

Posted by | May 25, 2019 | , , |

“If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants” – Sir Isaac Newton. Very Rev Professor Konyinsola Ajayi SAN, the Managing Partner of Olaniwun Ajayi Legal Practitioner (OALP) born on Monday 25th May, 1959 is the third child of a former Commissioner for Health in the defunct western region of Nigeria, Sir Olaniwun Ajayi of Isara Remo. Professor Ajayi, a transaction lawyer described by peers as “a lawyer’s of lawyer,” who took Silk in 2000 is the minister in charge, Emmanuel Chapel Methodist Church, Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos. Professor Ajayi is a mentor and...

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