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Uroko, Favour Chukwuemeka; Obiorah, Mary J. (AOSIS, 2021-10-21)This article examines the effect of hate speech in Nigeria in the light of 1 Kings 12:1–24. Hate speech refers to any speech that subordinates, marginalises or harms members of a group. The analysis of the text unveils ...
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Uroko, Favour Chukwuemeka; Enobong, Solomon (AOSIS, 2021-07-01)This article explored the rape of Dinah in Genesis 34:1–28 and its implications to the escalating rape cases during the period of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Nigeria. By examining the rape in the pericope ...
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Onah, N.G. (Nkechi); Okwuosa, L.N. (Lawrence); Uroko, Favour Chukwuemeka (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-08-23)The apparent disconnection between Nigeria’s endowment in natural resources and the level of poverty has become a cause for concern, with a serious impact on the development of the nation. To address the poverty issue, ...
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Ituma, Ezichi Anya; Solomon, E.I. (Enobong); Uroko, Favour Chukwuemeka (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-10-31)This article examines the reason behind the charge to secrecy imposed by Jesus on the leper in Mark 1:40–45, in the context of African experience, the implications of the meaning conveyed and the challenges posed on the ...
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Ibenwa, Christopher N.; Uroko, Favour Chukwuemeka (AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-06-08)The religious crisis in Nigeria dates back to the colonial era. The amalgamation of two distinct nationalities (Northern and Southern Nigeria) for the purpose of administrative convenience by the colonial government, ...
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Uroko, Favour Chukwuemeka; Enobong, Solomon (AOSIS, 2022-07-08)Divorce amongst married couples is a disturbing phenomenon amongst the Yoruba people of southern Nigeria. Unfortunately, the church in Yoruba land, which has focused much of its teachings on financial prosperity, has started ...
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Uroko, Favour Chukwuemeka; Nwaoga, Chinyere T. (Research Institute of Asian Women Sookmyung Women's University, 2022-12)The study is an attempt to identify and narrate the challenges faced by and experiences of Nigerian women in transit and destination countries. Although progress has been made in examining different aspects of Nigerians' ...
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Obiorah, Mary Jerome; Uroko, Favour Chukwuemeka (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-10-23)Conspicuous in the Old Testament (OT) is the literary genre of blessing that is often construed in poetic forms. They are of various types and were significant to their initial audience. A careful analysis of their texts ...
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Uroko, Favour Chukwuemeka; Solomon, E.I. (Enobong) (AOSIS, 2021-08-06)This article examined the warning against evil companions in Proverbs 1:8–19 and the role of the church in addressing the involvement of Tiv youths in crime in Benue State and its implications for actions. Wicked people ...
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Uroko, Favour Chukwuemeka (AOSIS, 2022-08-18)Although progress, no matter how small, has been made by scholars who examined different aspects of the Mkpuru Mmiri [methamphetamine or crystal meth] drug crisis in Nigerian Igbo communities, literature is yet to approach ...
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Uroko, Favour Chukwuemeka; Obiorah, Mary Jerome; Nnadi, Success (AOSIS, 2021-09)In Genesis 47, Jacob and his descendants were regularly migrants in Egypt. This article examines this text and its interest in the contemporary migrant crises affecting Nigerians. Findings reveal that Genesis 47 encourages ...
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Uroko, Favour Chukwuemeka (AOSIS, 2022-06-30)Few studies have examined unethical business practices in Nigeria, and no study has examined unethical business practices in Warri local government area of Delta State from the lens of Proverbs 11:1-6. A reading of Proverbs ...
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Ibenwa, Christopher N.; Uroko, Favour Chukwuemeka (AOSIS, 2022-06-13)The octogenarian (Ito-ogbo at 80) festival in Obosi is a festival that is celebrated with a huge fanfare of pumps and pageantries. It is celebrated every three years in March to rejoice with fathers and mothers on the ...
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Uroko, Favour Chukwuemeka (AOSIS, 2021-11-03)This research article examines the increasing spate of youths who engage in fraudulent Internet activities in Nigeria in the light of Proverbs 4:10–19. Nigerian youths are fast becoming impatient with their quest for ...
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Uroko, Favour Chukwuemeka; Enobong, Solomon (AOSIS, 2020-08)Examining the prophetic commission in Amos 7:8–17, this article argues that it points towards complete repudiation and disdain for the office of the professional prophets in Israel. This anger of Yahweh against Amaziah, ...
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Odo, D.O. (Damian); Uroko, Favour Chukwuemeka (MDPI, 2023-09-29)This study used Ruth 1:1–5 as a lens in the study of the increasing challenges Nigerian migrants face. Famine was ravaging the land, and hence Elimelech moved his family away from Israel to the country of Moab so they ...
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Uroko, Favour Chukwuemeka (AOSIS, 2022-05-17)A woman who engages in sex for money is referred to in Proverbs 2:16-22 as a forbidden woman or a prostitute. Anyone who engages in sex for wealth or advancement is shown as a loose and confused lady in the pericope. This ...
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Diara, Benjamin; Uroko, Favour Chukwuemeka (AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-01-29)Democracy as an administrative system is maintained through party representation and election in which everybody is duly represented, and through a constitution which is prepared in the interest of equity, justice and ...
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Obiorah, Mary Jerome; Uroko, Favour Chukwuemeka (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-10-29)Copious citations of the Old Testament (OT) by the New Testament (NT) writers confirm the continuity of the divine revelation in both parts of the sacred scripture and at the same time underscore the newness of the NT. ...
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Nwaoga, Chinyere Theresa; Uroko, Favour Chukwuemeka; Okoli, Anuli B.; Okwuosa, L.N. (Lawrence) (AOSIS, 2021-08-20)Widowhood practice is an unjust cultural practice directed against women who lose their husbands. The effects of this long-time culture on society, especially women, are continuing even in the 21st century as a result ...
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