For NBC, a time to rise above the puddle, by Okoh Aihe
The bell for political campaigns for the 2027 Elections went off last week. Already cauldrons of political abracadabra are boiling over. Surrogates and infradigs down the political ladder have started throwing stones, giving clear but ominous signals that things could get a lot messier and the air more fouled up in the days and months […]
What does it mean to be a fisher of men ?
David counsels that when God speaks once, we should hear him twice. (Psalm 62:11). That does not mean twice literally, but several times. Similarly, Jesus maintains we must forgive our brothers seventy times seven times. (Matthew 18:22). That does not mean four hundred and ninety times, but indefinitely. Therefore, when God speaks, we should review what he says again and again.
Don’t give up, all is not lost
This column this week is a slight deviation from our usual focus on couples waiting on the Lord for children
Married, lonely
Tuesday, January 26, 2016, is Spouses Day, a day set aside to celebrate and honour our spouses. It is a day when we should not only tell our spouses we appreciate them, but prove it. Celebration of our spouses should actually be a daily and continuous activity, but this day is specially meant to draw attention to the need to appreciate our spouses. But how do you celebrate and appreciate your spouse in a marriage where either one or both spouses are lonely? One challenge some married people contend with is loneliness. It comes in many forms. We have grass widowhood.
Who will cry for me when I die?
A lady in a high brow catholic parish died recently. She was only 48. Yet at that relatively young age, she had put herself in different positions of service within the church that almost everybody—the old, the young, the rich, the poor, the cleric and the laity—remembered her. And like Lydia in the Holy Book, almost everybody had good things to say concerning her. As she was in the church, so she was at home and with close friends. She had made herself so relevant in people’s lives that many remembered one kind deed, one kind gesture or the other. Hers was a life that was short but impactful.
Man, 80, marries for the first time in Lagos
At 80, one expects a person to be on marital holiday, to be enjoying the fruits of his labour but this is not the case with Isiaka Oladipupo, an octogenarian who for the first time in his life time got married to a 70 year- old woman Sunbo Olanrewaju. Isiaka met his heartthrob about two years ago and today, they are together in a matrimony though in an uncompleted building at Bayeku, Ikorodu.
