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Alleged Child Witch Idongesit Okon And A Society That Has Lost Its Soul!

Alleged Child Witch Idongesit Okon And A Society That Has Lost Its Soul! To an avid follower of events happening in Nigerian, it would by now be pretty obvious that although majority of Nigerians feign deep religiosity, we are in fact an extremely spiritually and morally bankrupt people. Nothing confirms this fact better than the story of 13-year-old Idongesit Okon Iko, a boy from the town of Unyenge in Mbo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Recall that Akwa Ibom is not far from Calabar where over 100 years ago, Scottish missionary Mary Slessor stopped the killing of twins, whose births were considered by the natives for many years at that time as an evil curse. Is this why today, cruelty to children can be easily stomached by indigenes of the State?Akwa Ibom is an oil rich yet pove...

Inspirational Story Of Zero Hunger Fighter Nwambe Josiah Ebuka

Inspirational Story Of Zero Hunger Fighter Nwambe Josiah Ebuka On the sidelines of my activities in Abuja, Nigeria’s FCT, and my work with the Obaseki/Shaibu Mandate Forum, OMF, today, on his invitation, I paid a visit to the farm of a remarkable young Nigerian, an Agriculturist who likes to describe himself as a “Hunger Fighter”, Nwambe, Josiah Ebuka who happens to be my maternal cousin… Ebuka is a farmer who advocates for sustainable-healthy living and a zero-hunger fighter who believes food shouldn’t be seasonal because hunger isn’t seasonal…because of this, in his research, Ebuka is continually seeking new way of making all kinds of agricultural produce available in all season. A native of Ebonyi state, eastern Nigeria, this young talent is an entrepreneur, a strategic planner, healthy...

A Community’s Quest For Water And Akinyele LGA Clean Water Project

254.4Kshares 63.2K 191.2K 1 0 0 0 0 A COMMUNITY’S QUEST FOR H20 AND AKINYELE LGA CLEAN WATER PROJECT We are told in the book of Genesis that when God decided to make earth habitable for man, he met the entire surface of the planet filled with water, “…and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters”, before he called forth land. Today, experts tell us that 71% of the entire surface of the earth is covered with water, although 96.5% of it is salt water, man has been able to master the art of treating   water for consumption. In other words, we are quite literally surrounded with water so that no human being should lack water. But, did you know that up to 300 million people live in areas without access to clean water? This applies especially to countries lying in Sub-Sahara...