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One of the issues that has generated great concern among voters in the run up to the Nigerian presidential elections is religion. Many Nigerians see the mixing of religion and politics as an impediment to progress and development. This idea can be traced to Europe. The Middle Ages were a time when religious authorities and political authorities clashed in European […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright and Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has said that he has never felt the need to embrace any religion. Soyinka who described himself as a mythologist during the public presentation of his two-volume collection of essays, further revealed that he doesn’t worship deities even though he considers deities as creatively real. Soyinka said: “Do I really […]
Continue ReadingAs electioneering heats up, the tensed debates around the religion of the presidential candidates will steam. Presently, the religious dialogue is about the savviness of a “Muslim-Muslim” ticket which, as we have been told, is the only combination that guarantees electoral success for a candidate whose regional supporters are apparently too close-minded to vote for […]
Continue ReadingSenior Pastor of the Revival Assembly Church Lagos, Anselm Madubuko, had said that religion killed popular gospel artiste, Osinachi Nwachukwu. The 42-year-old singer died on Friday at an undisclosed hospital in Abuja where she was being treated for an ailment. Since her death, there have been allegations that she died as a result of gender-based violence […]
Continue ReadingThe letter informing the Chief Imam of Apo Legislative Quarters Mosque, Sheikh Nuru Khalid, that he had been sacked following a sermon where he criticised the government provides an intriguing study of what religion looks like when God has been removed from its contents. From a practice that should ideally demonstrate conscience, all you see […]
Continue ReadingMedia personality and Free The Sheeple leader, Daddy Freeze has decried the increased number of religious temples found in most streets in Africa. Daddy Freeze who asked Africa to wake up as “5 to 10 religious temples on every street is not our salvation”, also claimed that religion has killed more people in the last 500 […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has said that religion is the number one problem hindering Nigerians from being liberated as “rational beings.” Soyinka said this while speaking with a professor of African Literature, Dr. Louisa Egbunike. He stated that “if religion becomes an excuse for flouting the law, then that religion has got to […]
Continue ReadingAs I was saying, an unliberated mind is instinctively sold to prejudice. It is a form of imprisonment. I had barely shut down my laptop after writing on ‘Yoruba Muslims and the Fifth Columnists’ last week when I received a WhatsApp broadcast that helped make my case even better. It was a post by Saminu […]
Continue ReadingThe following is the first chapter of my new book, True Christianity, scheduled for release in January 2022. Just as you have organised crime, you also have organised religion. And both of them are cartels that promote an agenda that only those at the very top of their pyramid are fully aware of, while those […]
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