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CRAZY FAITH By Jack Eason and Friends When you read verses like 2 Timothy 1:12 in the Bible, and give them serious thought, the attitude that many of these people in Scripture displayed seems somewhat ludicrous today…maybe even CRAZY. Yet it is that attitude that led to God doing extraordinary things through extraordinary faith. Maybe that is why today, we see few things that we would describe as “extraordinary.” The purpose of this book is to highlight people from the Scriptures and some modern day Crazy Faith-ers who have exemplified living with Crazy Faith . AMAZON

THE RED CASKET DEL TORO MOON #2 By Darby Karchut Never trust a witch. For four hundred years, generations of the Family Del Toro and their battle-savvy warhorses have secretly guarded their corner of Colorado from all things creepy. But when a menacing woman with some wicked witch powers shows up at the Del Toro ranch and demands the return of the Red Casket, twelve year old Matt Del Toro must team up with his best friend Perry—along with the warhorses Rigo and Isabel—to out-wit, out-ride, and out-fight one Viking-size sorceress. AMAZON BARNES & NOBLE

Legends tell of an underground world, connected to the four corners of the earth through an intricate tunnel network, Agartha. A land inhabited by peace-loving and gentle people trying to alleviate the exuberance of the nations living above ground, the myth seems to be very old. Perils turning the earth above had not touched, Agartha, this haven for peace-loving people for eons, but sorrow is an unwelcome visitor that persists to visit every place that it can slither and crawl through, and this land had been cursed by the visit of sorrow not long ago. Out of the pains of Agartha, a prophecy is born, and it states that one day, sorrow would be driven out and peace will reign supreme once more, or else all will be lost. These are the chronicles of this era, in a place thought to be a legend; these are the chronicles of Agartha. CLICK HERE TO BUY MEET THE AUTHORS

How about starting the new week off with a couple of books I've read recently. I finally found time to read and write the reviews. Been doing a lot of writing myself. And having fun with my critters. SCRAPS OF PAPER By Kathryn Meyer Griffith Turn on the lights, lock the doors, and settle down for a mystery that will make you check all of the locks more than once. When Abigail moves to the town of Spookie to find happiness, she discovers a scrap of paper that changes her life forever, although not in the way she had planned. Kathryn Meyer Griffith has written a story of love, adventure, and danger, along with a cast of characters that I think you’ll remember for a long time after reading about their lives. SCRAPS OF PAPER is the story of people that live in a small town and how they face the dangers that threaten to destroy them. This is good mystery that kept me wondering what would happen next. I recommend it for readers who enjoy suspense and mystery. This is t...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi The  Wall Street Journal’s disturbing July 31 report  of the secret mass burial of at least a thousand Nigerian soldiers who were murdered by Boko Haram terrorists has, once again, brought to the fore the conscienceless villainy and duplicity  of the Buhari regime and its illegal service chiefs who have overstayed their statutorily mandated length of service by  several months. The regime never stops to claim that it has “defeated” Boko Haram even when indisputable evidence to the contrary stares it in the face. In late last year, for instance, it was reported that Boko Haram had murdered hundreds of Nigerian soldiers. Yet the federal government did not consider it fitting to acknowledge the tragedy, much less condole with the families of the deceased soldiers. In fact, on the day the fallen soldiers were given an undignified mass burial, Buhari met with APC senators who’d threatened to...

Sunny Jack Obande Wilfred was indeed surprised when he got home at few minutes to six that evening and met Rita’s absence. It was unlike her; she usually arrived home before him especially since her office closes at 4pm, an hour earlier than his does. In addition, on the occasions that she opted to stop over either at her hairdresser’s place or to pick a few confectioneries from the stores, she’d always put a call through to intimate him of her movements. At first, Wilfred figured she might possibly have taken a stroll to the mall in the neighborhood to get one household item or the other. This thought was reinforced when he remembered she had complained days earlier on the need to restock the condiment in their food store, as they were already low on supplies.  He thought to himself that the quarrel they had the previous night might be the reason she had refused to call him. He picked his mobile phone to dial her number to know where she was, but sheer pride got the b...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter:  @farooqkperogi I was one of seven professors who facilitated a leadership training in my university here in Georgia for local government chairmen from a major Nigerian southwestern state. In the course of the training, I adverted to a January 13, 2018 column I wrote about how power literally damages the brains of people who wield it and causes them to be dissociated from reality. A few of the chairmen at the training initially said they “rejected” what I said “in Jesus’ name.” But the more I expounded the research on the psychology of power, the less resistant they became. In the light of the interest it excited among these local power wielders, I thought I’d share a revised version of the column for the benefit of other people in power.   On Nov. 20, 2014, Buhari, Amaechi, Oyegun and other APC honchos protested in Abuja against the increased insecurity and killings in the country. Insecurity and killings are worse on...