The concept of environmental education is an age-long practice and process that has only gained popularity among all classes of human beings in recent times. This could be owed to the reality of the apocalyptic events that are sparing no boundaries all around the world. There is incessant flooding in Sub-Saharan Africa, pulsating drought in … Continue reading Environmental Education: Its role in raising environmental awareness and preparing youth for green careers.
Since I received the news of a possible visit to Kano, one of Nigeria’s most prominent cities, I was joyed with excitement again about adding another placemark to my series of location dots in my timeline of the journey in the three decades I have spent on planet earth. Placemarks on my timeline have increased … Continue reading My First Trip to Kano
On a fateful morning, while walking to my volunteering duty station, my eyes were fastened on the penultimate milestone to the destination as my legs were carrying my body to approach it. Suddenly, I was distracted by the sight of a coloured spiral line of liquid stretching across both sides of a bridge. Then I … Continue reading As the Colourless Turns Purple
Waking up every morning to the news of killings, scandals and armoury showiness, that stuff everywhere human occupies on this planet, and their premeditated consequences of pain, sorrow and perplexity make one think and ask “is this how we ought to live?” But then, I quickly found the answer.
God, the maker of all, never intends that man should live in a restive situation during the short time he will spend on earth. His intention was a world like that of Eden, a place of no pain nor sorrow. This insight was derived from the description of the new earth (Zion) to come. “For the Lord will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; Joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving and the voice of melody” (Isa. 51:11).
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My trip to the forest a couple of months ago would have been all groovy, with all the unforgettable experience I had with nature, but it was soon met with some heart-aching observations. As we move on, through the blissfulness of nature, amidst the population of trees, we began to come across the impacts of … Continue reading A Trip to the Forest II
I was part of a research team who went on a fact-finding mission into three supposedly forest reserves lately. The trip into the forest zones afforded me the opportunity, once again, to connect with nature and to relive those experiences I have almost forgotten which can only be found in a forest region. As we … Continue reading A Trip to the Forest – I
So shall they fear The name of the Lord from the west, And His glory from the rising of the sun; (Isaiah 59:19) The eye is like the pleasure gate to the heart. Through it, the brain receives optical signals to process and feed the heart which then desires the ones that are pleasant. For … Continue reading Right Sight
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation not to be regretted: but the sorrow of the world produces death.For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation not to be regretted: but the sorrow of the world produces death.(2 Corinthians 7:10) Contrast is a concept that reveals the dissimilarity between things. This is something that … Continue reading My Choice
“And now for a little while grace has been shown from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in his holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes, and give us a measure of revival in our bondage.” Ezra 9:8. Every day, man wakes … Continue reading Urgent Need
'Tunde Vincent Akinmolayan 