Oluwaseun Afolabi

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Lecturer at Lead City University

Cross-cultural missionaries face numerous challenges in their place of assignment, leading to high rates of attrition, ineffectiveness, and shortened tenure. The study adopted descriptive survey research design and it involved twenty (20) cross-cultural field missionaries of New Life Gospel for All Nations Ministries working in Abia and Anambra sta...

Administrative skills that contribute to the effectiveness of church pastors in administering the church have witnessed a steady decline among pastors of Oyo Baptist Conference. Therefore, this study examined capacity building and administrative skills development among Oyo Baptist Conference church pastors. The study employed a descriptive researc...

This study investigated human resources management as catalyst for sustainable church growth in local Baptist churches in Oyo metropolis with objectives of investigating the root causes of human resources mismanagement and ascertaining effective human resources management for sustainable church growth among Local Baptist Churches (LBCs) in Oyo metr...

One vital quality which a pastoral counsellor should possess is intercultural competence. Intercultural competence refers to the ability to understand, appreciate, and adapt to different cultural norms, values, and communication styles. This paper looks into the place of intercultural competence in effective pastoral counseling. Intercultural compe...

This article examines how Pentecostal churches in Nigeria use online media to target the youth. Nigeria is now a major player in the commercialization of religion due to the sheer number of websites that promote add-on spiritual services. The promotion of Internet conversion is a major strategy in attracting the youth who are more active and comfor...

Nigeria is a country that is shaken by recurrent socioeconomic and political crises, which started right after the implementation of the structural adjustment program since the early 1980s under the military regimes. Several scholars have argued that religion played a crucial role in the political truce that ushered in the democratic government of...

The formal and informal promotions of knowledge, skills and attitudes that aid conflict prevention, and peaceful resolution of existing conflicts or creation of conditions for peace have been gaining momentum in recent studies on sustainable peacebuilding. These scholarly and policy-driven attentions have largely concentrated on different curriculu...

The formal and semi-formal promotions of knowledge, skills and attitudes that aid conflict prevention, and peaceful resolution of existing conflicts or creation of conditions for peace has been gaining momentum in recent studies on sustainable peacebuilding. These scholarly and policy-driven attentions have largely concentrated on different curricu...

This article examines how Pentecostal Churches in Nigeria use online media to target the youth.

Sacredness is one of the distinctive phenomena of religion. It is about the divine existence of a thing set apart due to its supernatural abilities that can bring humanity closer to divinity. It is the core of existence and has transformative effect on people’s lives and destinies. Osun Osogbo sacred grove houses over one hundred shrines and sculpt...

One of the important characteristics of culture is diversity. This makes every nation of the world a unique entity. Rather than a blessing, cultural diversity has become a tool of oppression, domination, nepotism, injustice, disparity and discrimination in the hands of political actors and influential citizens in Nigeria. In the fight against polic...

Rape is a global social problem that cuts across ages, genders, races, ethnicities and religions. Notwithstanding its devastating effects on the health of the victim and society, its prevalence has continued to increase daily regardless of the location of the act whether sacred or secular place. The prevalence of rape shows that before the age of 1...

Leadership serves as a rallying point and influential factor in any organization, making leadership positions enviable. However, leadership conflict abounds in every organization, just as it does in any environment, since human beings seek to put themselves at the forefront. The desires of many to lead often leads to conflict. Miller (1978) observe...

The coming of Christianity into Nigeria brought along western cultural influences. Right from 1850 when the Southern Baptists arrived the country, up to the late 1880s, the American missionaries had virtually been the sole propagators of the gospel among the people, with imperial instincts and western influences. Underneath this was the mode of wes...

The city of Lagos is situated on an Island, surrounded by lagoons. The location of Lagos is six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude and three degrees and thirty minutes east longitude, thus, it is tropical. Before the advent of the slave traders, who were the first to install the trappings of Western Civilization, the land was mostly covered...

The use and misuse of religion in the name of God has become problematic among different adherents of religion in Nigeria. The manipulation of religion by religious leaders and their adherents have turned many to religious fanatics and fundamentalists, culminating in religious conflict and violence. Existing studies have largely focused on the concep...

Church conflict is inevitable whenever people with different opinions, attitudes, personalities and belief system gather together; their diversity will eventually surface and create discord. Existing studies on conflicts in Baptist churches in Nigeria have largely focused on the Nigerian Baptist Convention (NBC) with less emphasis on the LBCs, part...

p> The paper discusses the challenges facing history teaching in Nigeria. The scope of the study is limited to private/public schools in Oyo State, Nigeria. The study starts by tracing the problem from the advent of missionaries to Nigeria in which their purpose of establishing mission schools was not to teach African history but to evangelize and...

Nigeria which is multi-ethnic and multi-religious in nature is faced with religious violence. Religion that supposed to be a unifying factor among several ethnic groups in Nigeria has turned out to be one of the catalysts that are causing destruction of lives and properties due to narrow-mindedness, misunderstanding, fundamentalism and fanaticism o...

Nigeria which is multi-ethnic and multi-religious in nature is faced with religious violence. These crises have been traced to the time of the colonial masters who have amalgamated many ethnic groups and different religious background without proper consultation. A lot of religious violence has been recorded in several part of the north which has c...

Unemployment has been a major problem in most countries in the world. Nigeria, as a developing country is witnessing high rate of youth unemployment which has become one of the major threats to its national security. The study examines the types and causes of youth unemployment in Nigeria, its effects on national security and ways to tackle unemplo...

Conflict is a phenomenon created by man due to differences in goals, interests, wants, needs and outcome of issues. Africa and African Churches were not exempted in conflict but, the outcome of any conflict determines it effect. Church conflict has constituted a great challenge to the church which has either caused the expansion of the church or a...

I investigated the critical role of the Ministerial Board of the Nigerian Baptist Convention in managing conflict in conflict-affected local Baptist churches in Nigeria. The book deals comprehensively with the mechanisms used by the Board in resolving conflicting issues in the Convention. The book provides indispensable tools for policy makers, con...