Isaac Orimogunje's Blog

Education is never a luxury; it is a basic necessity of mankind. It forms the building block of any society. Any leadership that does not provide education as the building block of societal fabric intends to keep the people small. Such leaders want to mute the voice of the people so that the people cannot question the leaders’ action.

Human by nature is a faulty device but by creation, human is a perfect being. According to 1 John 2:1a, ‘My little children this thing I write to you, so that you sin not’. This just shows the very nature which God created in mankind (In his likeness).

There is famine in the land (Nigeria) just as it was in the days of Elisha, when Syria besieged Israel and locked all the gates to the country. The economic activities became crippled just as it is now in our land. The people resorted to eating abominable things just as is the custom in our land today. The head of a horse and the droppings (excreta) of dove became the staple food and those abominable and inedible items came at a ridiculous and an unaffordable price that only the rich of the society could afford it.

I grew up in a Christian church/denomination where when a man has a problem; it is usually connected or tied to a woman (wife, daughter, mother etc.). When the problem or situation becomes so intense and unbearable one of those women is labelled a witch or demon.

Have you ever trusted someone and you were so let down? Even the most consistent person can betray your trust at critical moment because the nature of man is inconsistent.

Quoting God’s word is good but the best way to activate God’s blessing upon one’s life is by working according to His word (in the principle and guidelines God has set down for us).

Many of us Christians have been wired to believe that the time of warfare is the time we go for prayers or deliverance session and that is why many of us Christians just use one or at most two weapons in our daily Christian Journey and battles.Thus majority are left defenseless and exposed to the onslaught of the devil. The most commonly used weapon is the word of God; which is the only offensive weapon. Thus we leave ourselves exposed and that is why many Christians fall on the battle field. Our daily engagements, interactions, business activities etc. are our battle field and thus the way we live our daily lives constitute how battled prepared we are. This is because in our daily activities we must be fully kitted with the belt of truth (stand therefore having girded your loin with the truth), the chest guard of righteousness (having put on the breastplate of righteousness), the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation and the boot of the gospel (and having shod your feet with the ...

One of the basic problems I had embracing Christianity as a faith was the fact that we all tend to live in the scripture without really living in reality. We have many Catholics that are more catholic than the Pope. A generation of people that want to appear holy on the outside but are dying on the inside. A friend on Facebook had the courage to share her marriage agony and the painstaking gut to call it quit when the abuse became unbearable.

Did our forefathers actually worshiped God? Yes they did! One of the difficulties I had embracing Christian faith was the fact that most things we deemed original or good was from the ‘white man’. Thus accepting western education as well as a religion that had no root in our culture or origin seems an affront to me.

Even animal kingdoms are governed by rules. In climes where human being live and where rules and regulations are meant to be obeyed; where rulers and people in governance are governed by moral conscience and instruments of law are used only to seek justice in extreme case, the IG of police would not declare the office of the speaker of NASS vacant.

There can only be three types of Nigerians at this point in time in our history; those who are tired of the situation and really want a change badly and those who like it as it is and would like it to remain so and those who find it convenient to remain neutral in this critical time in history.

Poverty is a sin, poverty is a disease, poverty is a curse, poverty is a crime, poverty is this, and poverty is that. As my society descends more into a social anarchy and as more and more people fall below the poverty line, the above statements becomes the cliché, clause, phrase or even spiritual cache by which different class of people in different clone of fighting, defeating, rejecting poverty live in my society.

To be candid I don’t know the meaning or the definition of love and there is no universally acceptable definition of love. When people are asked about love, it meaning or definition, different people are bound to come up with different attributes and characteristics of love. Religious people will say the whole definition of Love is God because God is love.

Sometimes ago, the executive Governor of Lagos, Babatunde Raji Fashola said that there was actually a clear difference between ‘godfatherism’ and endorsement. It was easy for me to accept his stand on the political situation in Nigeria because I approve of his approach to leadership and governance.

Parents have two battles right in their hands; the economic position of the country which is near killing and the need to feed and live (dress, ride cars, build good houses etc.) well which have been more demanding than ever before.