UZOKWE'S SEARCHLIGHT Nara Ekele Mo by Travis Greene and Tim Godfrey featuring Alfred Uzokwe ALFRED O. UZOKWE, Harrisburg, PA, USA

Onyema's Air Peace: Peace be unto you and your Management! YAHAYA BALOGUN, Arizona, USA Kudos to Tinubu's administration, through its tireless Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, for fighting and creating a price war in aviation travel in Nigeria.

My Month of Divine Acceleration Pastor AMOS D. DADA, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Develop yourself in your area of expertise. Trees grow in two directions, down through the root and upwards to the sun through the stem. The deeper your root the taller your stem shall become.

Religion and my African brethren YAHAYA BALOGUN, Arizona, USA Religious idiosyncrasies have beclouded and rewired the mental and cultural default of some religious Africans.

THE CHRISTIAN WALK Scrapbook for April Fool's Day: Laugh and crack-a-rib MOSHOOD FAYEMIWO, Cameron, Texas, USA April 1 is named FOOLS' DAY, after Steve April. He was born on 1st April 1579. He did 105 businesses in his lifetime, but none was fruitful. He lost all his father's assets, and so everyone started calling him the father of fools.

EASTER: Victory of Light over darkness Fr. PAT AMOBI CHUKWUMA After God illumined the darkness that overshadowed the whole world he said, 'Let us make man in our own image and likeness' (Gen. 1:26). God's image is the Light.

Mali 2, Nigeria 0: What really happened in yet another friendly encounter in Marrakech, Morocco? CYRIL C. NWOKEJI, Belgium

THE CHRISTIAN WALK BREAKTHROUGH NIGERIA 2024: Ebonyi here we come! MOSHOOD FAYEMIWO, Cameron, Texas, USA Finally, the week has come. We are drawing nigh to the hour when the True Lord God Almighty will make His sovereign powers known and His Awesomeness felt more than ever clearer and His Prodigious Omnipresence in Ebonyi State.

UZOKWE'S SEARCHLIGHT Happy Easter Y’All - With an Igbo Easter Hymn (Feat Alfred Uzokwe) ALFRED O. UZOKWE, Harrisburg, PA, USA

Pan-Africanism and today's self-determination struggle - Part 2 Rev. Fr. FRANCIS A. OBORJI, The Vatican It is high time the African leadership takes up once more those historic speeches of Julius Nyerere on self-determination and independence of the aggrieved and oppressed ethnic nationalities or groups in Africa today and act on them.

Can a woman be anointed to Pastor and Teach? (Responding to the woman question in the Bible) Bishop DAVID IBELEME, St. Ann's, Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies This is an age old question which has caused a lot of controversies within the body of Christ.

Pararan mock news: The perfect Nigeria news for our time OBEYA F. KIZITO, Pennsylvania, USA Everything that had once given us [Nigerians] hope for a brighter day seems to have abandoned us and there is hopelessness in the land.

The budget padding palaver Fr. PAT AMOBI CHUKWUMA I always check my blood pressure whenever trillion is spoken about. There are millionaires and billionaires. Scarcely do I hear of trillionaires.

Go closer to God (Poem) Rev. Sr. PRISCA O. NWOKORIE, Molfetta, Bari, Italy Grow to see God as a friend; He can teach you amazing things; Walk towards Him for more enlightenment; Grow to know Him more intimately.

Pan-Africanism and today's self-determination struggle - Part 1 Rev. Fr. FRANCIS A. OBORJI, The Vatican The neo-Pan-Africanism rhetoric among the African youths today is most noticeable during the recent standoff between France and its former colonies in West African Sahel region, namely, Niger Republic, Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea Conakry, among others.

The "Black Stars" of Ghana fall to the Super Eagles of Nigeria in an exciting friendly, in Marrakesch, Morocco CYRIL C. NWOKEJI, Belgium

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Remembering our Mamaláwo, Professor Sophie Oluwole YAHAYA BALOGUN, Arizona, USA Professor Sophie Oluwole was a cynosure of all eyes in the university community. 'Mamalawo' as she was popularly called in the literary circles, was Arogidigba (a timber and caliber) in the academic community.

Happiness amidst HARDSHIP Fr. PAT AMOBI CHUKWUMA As I was typing this write-up I got a sad report that a lady who boarded a boat intentionally jumped into the Lagos lagoon due to the unbearable hardship in the country. She ended her life just like that. I wonder if she is sure of making heaven where there is no hardship....

UZOKWE'S SEARCHLIGHT If it is Springtime, it must be allergy time - Buckle up! ALFRED O. UZOKWE, Harrisburg, PA, USA In fact, many make time to go out into nature, at Springtime, just to view and appreciate the beauty of flowers and trees blooming.

Who else but prof Benjamin Nwabueze (1931-2023) ERIC TENIOLA, Lagos, Nigeria It was Professor Nwabueze's subcommittee that recommended the fifteen codes which a public officer must adhere to. If those codes had been enforced, I am sure this country would have been a better place.

THE CHRISTIAN WALK You so-called dirty death, the last enemy: To Sylvanus Mangit Namang (1958-2024) MOSHOOD FAYEMIWO, Cameron, Texas, USA I saw Death. Yes Death, the implacable foe of the human race. It is a spirit, a fallen angel.

FROM THE PREACHER'S LENSES Unique fearless pastors needed! SAM AWEDA, Lagos, Nigeria Pastors today want to associate with politicians and people in authority and covet their blessing and goods and refuse to tell them the truth.

Who is your God? Who is my God? Who is their God? One God? YAHAYA BALOGUN, Arizona, USA I feel disgruntled as a Muslim! The Holy Quran aptly posits that there should be no compulsion in religious beliefs. Why does the enforcement of the brutal parts of religion always target the vulnerable members of society?

Beauty beyond love (Poem) Rev. Sr. PRISCA O. NWOKORIE, Molfetta, Bari, Italy Love may come and go; But that does not change; Your beauty; In any single phase.

UZOKWE'S SEARCHLIGHT Our “Wants” Versus our “Needs” ALFRED O. UZOKWE, Harrisburg, PA, USA Be careful so your 'wants' do not set you up for heartbreak and health challenges