Author: Deji Okegbile

HER MAJESTY @ 92 WITH 6TH GREAT GRANDCHILD BORN ON ST GEORGE’S DAY: Dealing with the Dragon

HER MAJESTY @ 92 WITH 6TH GREAT GRANDCHILD BORN ON ST GEORGE’S DAY: Dealing with the Dragon

Posted by | Apr 24, 2018 | , , |

The 92nd birthday celebration of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is very inspiring especially with her 6th great grandchild born on St George’s Day, 23rd April, 2018, and at a time the dragon is making a mockery of humanity and Christian faith. The dragon in this context points to the forces that terrorises the people, makes life unbearable, and Christianity powerless. The Royal Family out in a week long Queen’s 92nd birthday celebration organised ‘a Royal Albert Hall concert designed to honour all she has done for her country … cemented her Commonwealth legacy for a new generation.’  Indeed,...

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DIVIDEND OR DISASTER: Nigeria between Post-Independence Generation and “Andrew and Duro” Generation

DIVIDEND OR DISASTER: Nigeria between Post-Independence Generation and “Andrew and Duro” Generation

Posted by | Apr 18, 2018 | |

Nigeria is at a major junction that demands our personal and corporate convictions and preferred destination. Israel Emmanuel in his book, The Shift of a Lifetime: Moving a Generation from Survival to Significance, summons us, especially the most of the present ‘mid-life’ generation he called “Andrew and Duro” to make an ideological difference in our lifetime. According to him, Nigerians ‘are at the crossroads of Survival, Success and Significance.’ A new destiny is about to emerge in Nigeria but we must know where we are coming from, where we are and why, and where we are going to and...

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WINNIE MANDELA, A ‘POLITICAL WIDOW’: LESSONS FOR YOU AND ME

WINNIE MANDELA, A ‘POLITICAL WIDOW’: LESSONS FOR YOU AND ME

Posted by | Apr 13, 2018 | , |

“I was the loneliest man …” – Nelson Mandela I grew up to love and read about Nelson and Winnie Mandela. I remember, I had Nelson’s and Winnie’s big portraits on the wall of my room while teaching at Osu, my home town, and as a student, I took their portrait to my hostel at Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo. I later joined Amnesty International, Adeyemi Group based on my love for Mandelas and the principles they stood for. Indeed, significant people like Nelson and Winnie, mother of nation, intentionally developed winning habits and secured them through discipline and...

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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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