“In my town no boy can be considered adult until he has performed the Imamowu rituals. He must earn enough money by his own labour to pay the huge fees ranging from three to thirty pounds. He must provide ten…
(AS DOCUMENTED BY MAZI MBONU OJIKE IN APRIL 1955) “Ikeji … was the most ceremonial of the of the annual festivals. It was the harvest celebration, when my father invited all his relatives to rejoice with him. Ikeji does not…
One of the qualities that the world will ever remember Pope Francis for is his humble or simple lifestyle. Simplicity or humility is the mother of all virtues. It draws one closer to fellow humans and to nature. It helps…
Last night a very worried Nigerian laboratory scientist called me and lamented that the number of people who test positive to HIV in the recent times is speedily increasing.One of the worrisome experiences she had was the case of a…
In the second creation account, after the creation of man and the animals God made the man to take a deep sleep before the woman could be created (Gen.2:21-22). 1) Due to the noble and precious role the woman was…
NUMBER 1. If the Southerners did not learn anything from the recent food blockade initiated by the Northerners, they will never learn again. If the southerners did not understand the implications and monstrous nature of a One-Nigeria they will never…
THE NIGERIAN CHURCH TODAY AND THE GOSPEL OF FEAR By Rev Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu ([email protected]) 1. Precisely this day, 51 years ago, 18th February 1970, few days after the Nigeria- Biafran war that ended with the slogan of “No…
A RETIRED IRISH SPIRITAN (HOLY GHOST FATHER) RECALLS THE NIGERIA-BIAFRAN WAR AND THE EXPULSION Owing to my last year’s write-up on the 50th anniversary of the expulsion of the Holy Ghost Fathers from Nigeria, one retired priest who was still…
By Rev Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu ______________ 1) My dear gallant fallen youths; you went out to peacefully march on the streets in order to sooth the scars of your wounded Nation. Carrying nothing in your hands but…
By Rev Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu 1) The police and military brutality, which was alien to Africans, has become a cankerworm in the Nigerian society today. Until this savagery is properly studied and tackled from the roots, police…
