Segun Ozique

Mark .A. Gabriel’s book ‘Jesus and Muhammad,’ is a very interesting, entertaining and candid opinion of a writer with clear, clever and crafty point of view. An excellent book in religious genre; far more useful and openly probing than the plethora of religious books you find in book stores and stands meant to enlighten, indoctrinate or covet followers without much efforts, logic or convincing substance to sell their alternative religion as better choice. In the book, Mark ably invites his readers to ponder on some salient issues that makes his favoured religion stand out, comparatively portraying the other as a religion moulded in the dark ages, frozen in ice and left untendered too long to have gone out-of-sort, bland, sour and therefore uninteresting, unattractive and irrelevant to modern day free, cultured, vibrant and changing jet age world. How did the writer go about doing this; what are the issues he navigated to justify his stance? Mark presents his readers with direct...

BOOK: Building a Virile Nation               The Private Sector Perspective AUTHOR: Dr. Ausbeth Nnamdi Ajagu On-line Purchase @ www.aes-edu.net The world of books, well written books swallows me like a great tumbling wave. Dr. Ausbeth Ajagu’s book, ‘Building a Virile Nation,’ a collection of speeches, seminar papers, keynote addresses, print media publications, etc is one of such books. His point of view reveals his true convictions over and over again, in the belief, in freedom of entrepreneurship, capitalism with human face, lower and harmonized taxes, less government, a strong security system and properly planned, executed and monitored development plans. Dr. Ajagu's collection is full of wisdom; whatever the subject matter is. He brings a powerful grasp of developmental knowledge and understanding on all national and international issues. The readers will find all the papers, publications and interviews...

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