Author: Obayomi Abiola Benjamin

Practically many Church buildings in many countries where the Covid-19 pandemic is ravaging have remained closed to physical Church meetings. Irrespective of their sizes and the number of people they could seat per time, 100,000 capacity, 50,000 capacity, 500 capacity or even less. It is true the Scripture admonished that we should not forget the assembling of ourselves together in Hebrews 10:25. However, I don’t know if there had been a time in the past, either in Church history or in contemporary history, where Church building has been ask to close for one reason or the other. Even in…

During this period of lockdown, there is every tendency that those who have been struggling with their abusive husbands or wives before now suffer a bit and find it very hard to cope with them. Already, there are concerns in China and France as to the potential threat that this Covid-19 lockdown may have on those in one abusive relationship or the other. According to the World Health Organizations (WHO), violence against women tends to increase during every type of emergency, including epidemics, with women who are displaced, who are refugees, and living in conflict-affected areas as being the most…

Until 14 February 2020, when the first coronavirus case was confirmed in Africa, the world wondered how Africa seemed to be spared from the global viral outbreak. That has since changed with the virus now in over 46 African countries and the World Health Organization advising Africa to prepare for the worst. As African nations scramble to curtail the spread of this virus and limit its negative impact on their economy, special efforts must be made towards ameliorating the potential impact of COVID-19 on the continent’s agricultural landscape. The 2014/2015 Ebola outbreak demonstrated the devastating impact a widespread occurrence of…

I have taken my time to observe keenly how leaders of faith across Nigeria responded to government directives as to the need to reduce the size of their meetings to a limited number of not more than 50 persons or less in order to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the country. While many Pastors did all they could and obeyed this direct instructions, it was reported that others did not comply, especially those that we know and refer to as “fathers of faith” in the country. I also saw a video how a renowned Muslim cleric defiled the order…

Lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.” 2 Corinthians 2:11 We are in a time in the world right now where the devil’s campaign on the subject of fear is on the rise. More people in the world right now are afraid than ever before because of the spread of Covid-19 and so, many people are looking up to their governments for assurances that they would be fine. Why? Because they are really afraid! I read online how Nigerians are still angry at the fact that President Muhammadu Buhari has not…

The number of confirmed US coronavirus cases soared past 500 Sunday, including two further deaths, as President Donald Trump defended his administration’s “perfectly coordinated” response to the epidemic. The virus has reached some 30 US states, with Oregon the latest to declare an emergency, and 60 million people in California and New York are under crisis measures. Two more deaths were reported in Washington state — both linked to a virus-hit care home near Seattle — bringing the nationwide toll to at least 21. In an early morning tweet Trump, who has been accused of peddling misinformation on the outbreak,…

Most marriages I believe wouldn’t have hit the brick wall if the husband and wife had voiced out earlier than they did. There is this trait about marriage that many have subtly accepted as the norm; and it is in the fact that we all have been made to think and believe we can tolerate each other’s inadequacies in the marriage, even though it hurts us really badly. I know for sure that in marriage, one needs some certain degree of tolerance for the other party, but when it comes to you losing your sanity all in the name of…

The news of Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle leaving behind the royal life and its largesse to start their own family life afresh outside the glamour of the palace and the unfriendly British tabloids which will be around for a long time. I know, and I am a firm believer that history is made one way or the other, irrespective of the divide where such histories may fall. What Harry and Meghan have just done is historical, and one that would be told for many generations yet to come. Meghan Markle entrance into the Royal Family in…

“And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak.” 2 Corinthians 4:13 There is something that is essentially fundamental in the text that is written above. First, apostle Paul says every believer possesses THE SAME SPIRIT OF FAITH. In other words, the believers’ faith, anywhere in the world, irrespective of the location, is the same thing, and it is fundamentally rooted in WHAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN. So, there is nothing like the “Greek faith” or the “Hebrew faith” or something like “Nigeria…

“Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. 25 And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. 26 Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. 27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.” 1 Corinthians 9:24-27…