Author: Ozodi Osuji (PhD)

BELIEF IN LIFE AFTER DEATH HELPS PEOPLE To the best of my knowledge, no human being alive on earth knows for certain what happens upon his death. There are many hypotheses on what happens after we die but those are unverified beliefs. However, if a person can latch unto a religion that posits God and life after death and he believes it, that belief tends to have positive spillover effects on his life on earth. It tends to cheer him up, in an otherwise dreary universe, with galaxies expanding to heat loss and inevitable death? EMPOWERMENT Praying to God gives…

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This essay is a sequel to the piece that I wrote yesterday on if you want to be liked by people you should not blame them even when they are wrong. Fifteen years ago (2006), I began writing on Nigerian issues. I wrote essays saying that given what I see as Nigerians, their refusal to acknowledge the sins of their fathers in selling their people into slavery, their lack of guilt consciousness and always blaming the white man for their past ills and in the present each tribe’s tendency to blame other tribes for the fallen house that is Nigeria,…

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One of the lessons that I learned in my life is that no human being likes to be blamed, and that includes when he or she is wrong in his behavior. The individual wants to be praised and approved by all people. Even when his behaviors are egregious, he wants you to still tell him that he is great. When I was young, I was flabbergasted that my people, Africans used to sell slaves. I could not believe that even members of my kindred who, today, are Christians and seem like the best human beings on earth, in the…

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November 1, 2021, my friend, Professor James Agazie (who lives at Atlanta, Georgia, USA, he is from Anambra state) sent to me a video of the debate by Charles Soludo, Vincent Ezigbo and Andy Uba, candidates for the governorship of Anambra state. Since Dr. Agazie asked for my feedback on the debate, I am going to throw caution to the wind and hazard an opinion. I do not know much about the three gentlemen doing the debating. I have heard of Charles Soludo when he was the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria but did not care to…

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