Category: Religion
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Olubunmi Okogie; Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of the Lagos Archdiocese. In the home front, Okogie played the role of a Christian leader and activist. In May 1990, he… read more
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Ogunwande Abimbola; History professor, university administrator, and Ifa diviner born in the town of Oyo in 1936. Two years after his tenure as Vice Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University Abimbola became… read more
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The Apostolic Church, founded between the years 1904 and 1905, the church had had branches over Nigeria, U.S.A., France, and the U.K., since the early 1940s. The Apostolic Church is one of… read more
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Victor Oladokun; Broadcaster of the Christian Broadcasting Network known for his acclaimed television production, Turning Point, was born 1958 in England to an English mother and a father who hailed from Ondo… read more
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Apotheosis is the promotion of an individual to a godlike status. The term in Nigerian discourses is dominantly used in religion and in politics to denote respectively, the divinization of a hero,… read more
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J.B. Wood was the 19th Century Anglican Missionary to Nigeria and author of works on Yoruba grammar and literature whose History of Lagos up to 1861 was the first roundly chronicled story… read more
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Charles Phillips was the 19th Century Head of the Church Missionary Society in Ondo, whose parents were Yoruba Sierra Leonean returnee. At Ijaiye Charles’s father, known by same name, was a church… read more
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Igbe is a monotheist religion existing among the Urhobo people of southern Nigeria. It was founded by Ubiesha Etarakpo, a mystic from Kokori in Delta State. Precepts of this movement, which has… read more
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Ubiesha Etarakpo of Kokori was the founder of the Igbe religion, a monotheist expression of faith that gained considerable followership among the Urhobo people of Nigeria from the 19th Century. As a… read more
