Author: Adeyemi Oyerinde

A territorial usurpation aimed at forestalling Ukraine’s fraternization with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Russia’s incursive move into Kiev is, as expected, ruffling some feathers.Though a condemnable violation of the modern concept of sovereignty and international morality, Vladimir Putin’s expansionist drive prompting his invasion and anticipatory occupation and annexation of swaths of Ukrainian territories has, from antiquity, been the natural disposition of empires, kingdoms, territories and nations. Humanity’s history is an expanse strewn with bloods wrung out of the bulwarks of men mounted against invaders.The birth and survival of empires spanning Babylonian, Persian, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, Oyo, British, and Soviet…

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On the heels of his flight from Jubril of Sudan’s police state, Sunday Igboho was nabbed in Cotonou, Benin Republic while attempting to beat a hasty retreat to Germany. That Igboho was succesfully busted without him evaporating into thin air further serves to cast doubt on the efficacy of his much flaunted Juju. This disgraceful demystification of Igboho by an ethnicism-skewed government accentuates the primacy of technology-driven conflicts over Juju-propelled ones. The fate of Igboho at this point is a representation of that of a typical African person whose undoing has been accelerated by his reliance on Juju and the…

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From a Christian standpoint, it is not a sin to have sex with someone you love and have decided to spend the rest of your life with only because the union has not been sanctioned in a marriage registry or some traditional marital rites have not been performed. Neither the government through the marriage registry nor some traditional marital rites should dictate the direction of godliness. Biblically, fornication (“porneia” in Greek) does not imply pre-marital sex as the concept of “pre-marital sex” is a creation of misinterpreters of the Bible. Fornication imply non-marital sex and sexual intercourse is the only…

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