Aliko Dangote, Nigeria’s truest capitalist? By Suleiman A. Suleiman
([email protected]; 07066451983 SMS) Nigeria has a complicated relationship with capitalism. For the most part, it is barely understood. In Nigeria, capitalism is often presented as something inherently bad. This draws from the residual legacy of Nigerian Marxism, and a religious ethos that sometimes viewspoverty as a moral trophy. The idea that “money is the root of all evil” remains one of the most popular sayings in our public culture, even […]
I, you, we: A philosophical analysis of the human condition (1)
Christians who on religious grounds distance themselves from political events happening around them on the delusion that they “are in the world but are not of this world” are just deceiving themselves. There is no other world aside from this one
Vice President Osinbajo it is genocide not religious violence
Professor Osinbajo, SAN, as a prominent lawyer, teacher and now top politician asked the question: “why are such cases never concluded?” as if he does not know the answer. The answer had been partly and generally provided by the General Manager of a satellite station in the Middle East. World wide and in Nigeria, there is very little of what you can call “religious violence” left anywhere. What we have had since the rise of Al Queda and the attack on the World Trade Center in New York has been global terrorism and genocide systematically and relentlessly carried out by those claiming to be Muslims.
Cheer up! It’s your turn to laugh
Keep faith with God, play your part diligently and allow God to give you rest from all your troubles
Salvation from the world
The salvation popularly preached in the churches is not the salvation of Jesus Christ. The notion that Christians are already saved is beguiling, bewitching and illusory. Paul says we are saved without works. (Ephesians 2:9). Then he enjoins us to work out our salvation with fear and trembling. (Philippians 2:12).
’Study the past if you would define the future’
Confucius once said; “Study the past if you would define the future”. So true. What have we learnt from the past that has informed and shaped our present? Not a lot, sadly. I am not the only one who feels this way, Matthew Gansallo is the founder of History, Culture & Heritage Institute Nigeria (HCHIN) is another and more about him later.
