Prayer The Pharisee prayed at length, while the The Parable of the Publican and the PhariseeThese, then, are the two different states – on the one hand, there is the prayer beginning with thanksgiving: God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are. This is seemingly an invocation of God, but…
The Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, has reiterated that his focus is to provide good governance and and not competition with his predecessors in the state. Soludo, who made the assertion on Sunday during a thanksgiving mass celebrating Soludo’s three years in office at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Awka, the state capital, said he would…
The police in Lagos state have arrested a 25-year-old woman identified as Emmanuella Ogochukwu, for allegedly ste@ling her lover’s phones and bitcoins worth about N15 million. Confirming the arrest to newsmen, the command’s spokesperson, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, said Ogochukwu allegedly committed the offence on February 17, at Okota. She was alleged to have conspired…
Photo by Maurice Pehle He who laughsJust hasn’t yet receivedThe terrible news. – Bertolt Brecht Terror and anticipation begin the moment iftar ends. That is when the mujahideen knock on doors and search homes. Calls to the General Security prove useless; the response is shocking: “We cannot do anything about them.” Bullets pierce windows, shattering…
Photo: pravmir.ru The reading is from the gospel according to St. Mark 2:1-12 Today I would like to briefly explore the connection between St. Gregory Palamas: Traditionalist or Innovator?Although his theology was vindicated by several councils in Constantinople between 1341 and 1351, and he was canonized just nine years after his death in 1368,…
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has cautioned security agencies against investigating how suspended Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, attended the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting in New York. In a statement released on Sunday, Falana warned that any such probe would expose Nigeria to “needless embarrassment and undeserved ridicule”, particularly given the controversy surrounding…
