In your journey to success, always avoid shortcuts if you want to reach your destination on time. In the journey of life, shortcuts might look faster but are always dangerous. The story of shortcuts hardly ends well. They may appear to save costs, but at the end, they are always very expensive. Since shortcuts lack […]
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The Asians who placed oranges beside the grave of a beloved one, the Africans who cooked delicious food, or the Europeans who placed flowers on the grave of their loved ones are all doing the same thing with the materials they are at home with. “Nku di na mba na-eghere mba nri”. A non-African might
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For some days, the video of a visually impaired girl who visited the Zion ministry was everywhere on social media. She was seen being asked by the minister what she wanted. She replied, “Help.” “What kind of help?” The minister questioned her further. At the end, the minister understood that she wanted financial help. She
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Today, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of all saints. This means all those who have found their way to heaven, irrespective of their beliefs, nationality, color, or language, whether known or unknown, are celebrated today. The origin of All Saints’ Day in the Church cannot be traced with certainty. The feast has been observed
Exactly 21 years ago, on the evening of October 31, 2002, Bishop Mark Unegbu departed from us. I still vividly remember that evening when the news was broken to me. That was 10 months before my diaconate ordination and 14 months before my priestly ordination. My uncle’s last wish on earth was to ordain me
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Today is Protestant Reformation Day. It is a day set apart in Germany to remember the 95 theses of Martin Luther against certain teachings, especially as regards indulgence and the forgiveness of sins in the Catholic Church. Luther was then a Catholic priest and an Augustinian monk who was also a professor of moral theology
Where are the Regina Pacis Model Secondary School students whose scientific inventions made news 5 years ago or so? Where are the sticks they developed “to assist the visually impaired community that is said to be capable of “detecting obstacles at a distance of no less than 120 centimeters from a blind person and that
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This is Riya Karumanchi, the Canadian high school student who designed the smartCANE, “a device with advanced sensing technology to help the blind better navigate.” At the age of 16 she has already developed this. Actually, the white cane—that simple tool that helps the blind identify obstacles—was invented by James Biggs in 1921. Until 2018
“It is said that a dispassionate young man approached the Greek philosopher and casually said, “O great Socrates, I come to you for knowledge.” The philosopher took the young man down to the sea, waded in with him, and then dunked him under the water for thirty seconds. When he let the young man up
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My family is one of the first families that became Christians in Nigeria. In 1944, we had already a priest (Bishop Mark Unegbu) in the family. In 1948, we had the second priest (Msgr Edward Nwafo of CKC Aba). In 1930, a family member, the elder brother to Bishop Mark Unegbu, called Ezekiel Unegbu was
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