Understanding the Kingdom of God by Blessing MaduaWednesday, February 29, 2012
'''For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life'' (John 3:16) Christian Sunday school lessons introduced many of us to Bible stories that began with the photographs of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden ...
|
The Audacity of prayers in Nigeria by Blessing MaduagwuWednesday, February 29, 2012
This article brings it starkly home to any perspicacious reader of this work that Christians in Nigeria share the need to pray and fast in any circumstance we find ourselves. To put it quite simply, prayer is extremely indispensable in the life of every Christian. As explained to me right from Sunda ... |
How Desperate politicians underdevelop Nigeria by Blessing MaduagwuWednesday, February 29, 2012
Development is measured by what we can build, not what we can destroy. This therefore draws my unalloyed attention to the post election violence that destroyed lives and properties in Northern Nigeria. Political development can only be achieved with political maturity which comes from a simple under ... |
The emotional disengagement of bankers in NigeriaMonday, February 27, 2012
Employers in Nigerian banks emotionally disengage their employees in order to confine them to absolute submission and subservience. This is the threatening impact that is felt by existing employees whose colleagues were laid off in a manner that is devoid of criteria and cogent reasons. It leaves em ... |
The Present ordeal of bankers in NigeriaMonday, February 27, 2012
The sack of Bank employees in Nigeria has become extremely imperative because banks spent much of their organizational strategies in the pursuit of Global status at the detriment of domestic problems. In doing this, they failed to belong to the class of world local banks and are therefore conspicuou ... |
We need economic revival, not job retreat.Monday, February 27, 2012
Since 1960, Our Government has continued to hypothesize job creation with every conceivable political hyperbole instead of actually creating jobs. Modern Nigeria begins with reorganizing our society to fulfill our obligations to one another and address the present realities of despair and despondenc ... |
Nigeria: It's time for Sovereign National Conference by Blessing MaduagwuSunday, February 26, 2012
Without the state protecting the individuals, life as described in Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan will be nasty, brutish and short. Politics is the application of reason and logic. As a country that has existed since 1914, it therefore becomes absolutely inexplicable why some of our highly re ... |
Boko Haram:How Negotiations with Terrorists legitimize their activities by BlessSunday, February 26, 2012
The existential threat of Boko Haram has evoked protracted debates and discussions on either to fight them to submission with every conceivable state power as a deterrent to other emerging terrorist groups or submit to tyranny by negotiating with them in order to end this bloodshed that is threateni ... |
Nigeria as a commercial interest by Blessing MaduagwuSunday, February 26, 2012
When the Northern and Southern Protectorates were brought together in what the British called ''Amalgamation'' in 1914, most people did not know that the intention was certainly not for Nigerians to embrace themselves and share their common beliefs and practices. It was purely for economic considera ... |