The Rascality and Naiveté of Nigerian Christians

(By Temidayo Ahanmisi) - A woman, dedicated member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, (RCCG) went out on "Morning Cry" on the streets of Abuja about 2 years ago.

She was slaughtered like a stray pig by yet unknown assailants who will forever be at large.

"Morning Cry", which if we would be sincere, should be called "Moron Cry" is that urban delinquency Pentecostal Christians and their fellow Christian renegades engage in to hawk the Christian gospel in seeming hopes of cornering new members to the fold. 

Seeming, because the rascality is borne from deep psychological issues from unresolved personality drawbacks which give birth to a stock guilt complex, ignorance and extreme judgmentalism. 

Economic poverty, a constricted socialisation and stunted formal education combine to exacerbate the aforementioned psychological problems, and what we have is the urge by the religious to "win souls for Christ" in the most crass, tasteless and rascally manners by disturbing the peace of other residents in their areas of operation.

Of Nigeria, Popular Religion, and Public Nuisance

(By Lucia Edafioka – Sabinews) - Something is missing from Lagos’ logo

I was playing on the internet last week when I stumbled upon the logo for Lagos.

I have never really paid attention to it before until then. I zoomed in.  Palm trees, fishermen, yellow colour and some cowrie like things, green grass, and the motto is Justice and Progress. Yes, that is Lagos, more of progress, though, I don’t know about Justice (side-eyeing Delta state with Finger of God motto).

I kept zooming in on the logo and wondering; something is missing I thought; why isn’t there somebody preaching with a megaphone on the logo? Isn’t that like a permanent feature of Lagos? 

Have you ever gone a whole day in Lagos without seeing somebody preaching with a megaphone? They start in the morning around 6am and what they are saying is mostly incomprehensible, still they scream upandan. Sometimes the person will just be walking along the road ringing a bell, just ringing a bell not saying any words. 

How about buses? You are more likely to see more preachers at a bus stop than buses. And there are like over one million churches and mosques in Lagos.