0805-851-8305: Dele, Dele, Dele, how many times did I call your name? Devote your time, energy, and column to ASUU impasse! Let’s save our education now! — Olu

The plans to retire an entire generation of civil servants from the position of directors, and cap the years of service of the permanent under secretaries of the Federal Civil Service announced recently by the current Secretary to the Federal Government of Nigeria, Steve Oronsaye is wrong headed policy.

THE major problem deciding where home is or should be is that most of us don’t live in the present. We seem to sneer at what is choosing to believe the possibility of what is not. It’s suicidal to make a life changing decision that affects quite a number of people based on a romantic idea at best.

THE repeated failures of economic predictions and uncertainties about the specific details of what the global economic situation will be in a few years time is a reminder that economics can never be an exact science like physics. Therefore, one must always bear in mind the “human factor” while trying to comprehend economic reality.

LET me reveal to you what went on in my mind when I read the unfortunate news about my friend Prof Tunde Adeniran being refused service on behalf of Nigeria as our ambassador to the United States of America because of what the son was supposed to have done.

LAGOS life has never held that much excitement for me, “said Kike, a 38- year old mother of three. “When I was admitted into a nursing school in Lagos after my secondary school, I was ecstatic. But I soon saw Lagos for what it was – a city with a frenzied lifestyle that I could never catch up with. I’d been born and bred in a fairly big town but to protective parents.

IF the spectacle one witnessed last year in the oil city of Warri, Delta State during the 48th Independence Day anniversary celebration is anything to go by, then Nigerians are in for another colourful carnival that will, not only propel them to a new epoch but will also prepare them for a new experience capable of rejuvenating the patriotic spirit.

You don’t appear at a war front just like that; you have to prepare adequately because it is warfare. If you must win the war, there is need for adequate preparation. Last week, I taught on heart preparation as a key to winning the war of prayer. This week, I will show you another dimension of preparation that will enable you to win the war of prayer—Word preparation. Without the Word, every prayer ends in utter frustration.

Introduction: The nature of the exposition: IN this exposition it should be clear that no demand on Man made by God is to be idealized or moralized. Every demand of God is for a purpose. And it takes Man without sin to obey any demand of God. This applies to the Law given to Adam to keep before the Fall and to the Laws given to Israel by the hand of Moses. This point is to be kept in mind when we read the teachings of the Lord and Paul’s on Marriage against the backdrop of Moses’s Law on Divorce.

Whatever you like say. God is no respecter of persons. Those who see Christianity in the light of bread and butter should not force their beliefs on us. You either believe in God or believe in your selfish desires.