Archive for January, 2010

What’s God Got to Do with It?

Shareby Ijeoma Nwogwugwu
Ever since the United States listed 14 countries, including Nigeria, which it perceives as either “sponsors of terrorism” or “countries of interest”, a lot has been said and written locally and overseas in reaction to the development. Of particular interest are those reactions from the Nigerian citizenry and officials in government. The general [...]

January 11, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Ijeoma Nwogwugwu  Comments

We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

Shareby Simon Kolawole
A young Nigerian boy, named Farouk, went to the UK to study engineering. The chap started attending mosques where radical preachers, rather than concentrate on propagating Islam and exhorting Muslims to love their neighbours, spend most of the time denouncing the West and the Great Satan (commonly known as the US). UK did [...]

January 10, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Simon Kolawole  Comments

My Heart Goes out to Farouk

Shareby Simon Kolawole
Let’s briefly discuss the story of a young, independent boy with religious zeal and a fertile mind, delicately torn between the two worlds of extremism and liberalism. No, I’m not talking about Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab. I’m talking about myself. I embraced the Christian faith at the age of 20 during my national youth [...]

January 4, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments

Farouk: Terrorist? No! Misguided? Yes!!

ShareBy Dele Sobowale
I started reading Nigerian newspapers in 1953 —mostly those absolutely delightful cartoon/advertisements by Nigerian Breweries featuring Sammy Sparkle. Who in our generation can forget that mischievous character who popped up almost every where to stop a train; to stop a fight, etc, and the punch line —“I did says Sammy Sparkle; its time [...]

January 4, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Daele Sobowale  Comments


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