FAITH & FAMILY WITH FR. CHIJIOKE

A certain old man had a habit of always asking his wife of many years, “Do you love me, dear?”  And as often as he asked, his darling wife would respond, “Yes, I do, dear.” Once an inquisitive grandchild queried the man, “Why do you always ask…

I had a most beautiful week, penultimate week.  It was a week of reading.  I read like never before in a very long while.  Voraciously.  It’s like the Spirit, a holy one, of the books, possessed me.  Indeed, an angel of the books touched me. I…

It’s now a month since the world was pleasantly surprised (on Wednesday, March 13) with the election of Pope Francis, the 266th Roman Catholic pontiff. The new pope said in good humor afterwards that his fellow cardinals had chosen him from…

I first encountered Professor Chinua Achebe in the early 1990s—through his works, that is. I had read Things Fall Apart in secondary school and was fascinated by the story of the tragic end of Okonkwo, its main character. Partly, my…

Controversial star actress, singer and producer, Shan George, is very bitter with Nigerian journalists. Her reason? For years on end now, they've delighted in portraying her majorly as a man and sex lover. Which she doesn't like. During a…