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Nigeria: Check out the present ministers in the Tinubu's Administration.

President Bola Tinubu has assigned portfolios to his ministers. In the released list, a former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, was assigned the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory.  The full list of the ministers and their assigned portfolios are as follows: Northwest Minister of Art, Culture and the Creative Economy – Hannatu Musawa Minister of Defence – Muhammad Badaru Minister of State Defence – Bello Matawalle Minister of State Education – Yusuf T. Sunumu Minister of Housing and Urban Development –  Ahmed Dangiwa Minister of State, Housing and Urban Development – Abdullahi Gwarzo Minister of Budget and Economic Planning – Atiku Bagudu Minister of Environment and Ecological Management – Kaduna Minister of State, FCT – Mairiga Mahmud Minister of State, Water Resources and Sanitation – Bello Goronyo Minister of Agriculture and Food Security – Abubakar Kyari Minister of Education – Tahir Momoh Minister of Interior – Sa’idu Alkali Minister of Foreign Affairs – Yusuf Tuggar
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Towards a better understanding of The Human Person in Igbo Cosmology: A Narrative discourse.

 Introduction:  Every Culture has a specific way in it views things. That specificity is what makes it unique and cultural because culture has been seen people's way of life including their mode of dressing, food, work, thinking hence their worldview. The Igbo culture is also unique. In this essay we shall be concentrating mainly on the Igbo Concept of the human person.  The Igbo Generic name for the human person: The Igbo person does not see the person as man as in other cultures. The human person is generically called Mmadu which can never be translated as man. The name Mmadu could be understood in two ways. Firsly Mmadu is understood as pure beauty. This means that a person is the purest expression of beauty. In transliteration the person means " there is beauty'. A second understanding of the word Mmadu is "the beauty of creation or life". This means that it is the human being that is the real thing that makes life beautiful and sweet. There is an adage that
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Africa and Christianity: A Critical Analysis

 Introduction It is widely believed that a teeming population of Africans are Christians. This is because the missionaries converted many Africans to Christianity during the colonial era coupled with the ugly incidence of Slave trade which accompanied it. In this article I only wish to question a question which is the possibility of one accepting a faith under duress and yet keeping to it. Advent of Christianity in Africa. It is a well known fact that after the departmentalisation and disection of Africa in the Berlin Conference in 1885 which can also be called the scramble for Africa, different countries went into Africa for their selfish interests. Topmost of all interests was the financial and material gain from Africa. Though prior to this period, Africa was utilised during the first and second world wars.  Gaining entrance to Africa was not a baby task as there was a need for not just political colonization but a need for mental colonization. This mental colonization made it urgen
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The Igbo Spiritual Worldview and the Concept of a Supreme God: A Critical discourse

 EXTRACT: Since the advent of Christianity in Igbo land, a host of names have been used as either a direct translation or transliteration of what the indigenes were presented with as God. Cheching these names, topmost among them is Chineke but following the Igbo cosmology one will come to believe that neither Chineke nor Chukwu comes close to the the Christian concept of God hence an urgent need for a new search for a name for the Christian God in Igbo language. Follow us as we go through this presenting reasons for our position. CHINEKE IN IGBO SPIRITUALISM: The Igbo word Chineke came to be as a combination of two divine forces in Igbo spiritual world. These entities are CHI and EKE. In Igbo cosmology, CHI is the life force and the reincarnating force of a human being. Each person in Igbo land has his own personal CHI. The Chi is the person who reincarnated in a human being. The Igbos believe that each has reincarnated several times and in each of the reincarnation pays a karmic debt
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