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Maintaining That Modicum Of Workplace Religious Neutrality Makes No One An Unbeliever

"Let us say The Grace in unison" is an expression that appears to have traditionally become an end-of-meeting cliché in this part of the Country - the nature/agenda of such meetings notwithstanding. Meetings, be they ever so official, social, political, professional, etc, now seem inchoate without the recitation of that Christian creed. Whilst the religious liberty of every Nigerian citizen (perhaps with the exception of Cameroonian politicians from Adamawa State) to identify with any religion of choice enjoys constitutional approval, the erosion of the workplace with religious activities that could be prejudicial to corporate governance (if not checked) beats me hollow. For the avoidance of doubt, I am a Christian and I am unrepentantly unapologetic about it. I am not ashamed of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ but wait a minute, should my religious persuasion be a source of unease for the man next door? Does my right to freedom of religion not end where the religi

The Love For Social Media Trends And The Tacit Erosion Of Our Freewill

With this social media generation, I am convinced more than ever before that priming has finally jail-broken the prison walls of psychological ideas and now at large on the pragmatic streets of social media. By the way, priming is a term in psychology which means "the implicit memory effect in which exposure to a stimulus influences response to a subsequent stimulus". It is a tacit way of controlling/influencing people's decisions and choices by manipulating a chain of related events in their subconscious to fulfil an already predetermined end. Simply put, it is the subtle erosion of a man's freewill. You will agree with me that freewill is one of the most invaluable assets Providence bequeathed on man. Strip him of his freewill and a man is not better than a genetically modified chicken intentionally fed fat just so it could be used as an edible decoration on a plate of Christmas jollof rice. I cherish my freewill so much that if I am asked at gunpoint to choose