Lyricool Liturgy Blog

The Church is no place for comic relief. Even as believers, it's important that we sometimes take breaks from all our serious activities and whatnot and unwind, but the church is not a platform for comedians.    I often see posters of comedy programs that are scheduled to hold in a church and I wonder how and why we got here. We craze creativity in the church to the extent that we invite comedians and clowns to bemuse us. In a bid to be hilarious and wow the crowd (or congregation) in a language and terms they can relate to, these comedians go as far as saying some sacrilegious stuff to the amusement of the audience.  They say obscene stuff about our Lord, patriarchs, scripture, mode of worship or heroes of our faith just to create comic relief yet we laugh like drunkards instead of rebuking them.  Not that I'm against comedians or their crafts, Nope. I fancy their creative acumen and I must confess it's not easy to crack a joke and get people laughing. C...

In a bid to serve awesome content and to bring boombap back, outta the box Nigerian CHH rappers, Lyricool Liturgy and Vincee join forces to deliver nothing less than great lyricism laced with the truth. Boombaptism is a systematic theology put to a rhythm. The word “Boombaptism” is a portmanteau of Boombap and Baptism. Boombap is the unadulterated style of rap while Baptism means public identification with Christ Jesus. The song Boombaptism would be released in Volumes featuring prolific CHH Boombap emcees. stream

I remember when I and my friend wrote NDA examination in 2011. On the day of the examination, the invigilator, a Military Officer caught some candidates coping each other in the hall.  I thought he'd severely punish those caught cheating but he looked at them and laughed.  "If you like photocopy each other's work. Only 5 people will be shortlisted from each State.  Amongst other things, how influential your dad is will also determine if you'll make it or not." he bluntly said.  His words echoed in my mind and i was seriously forlon and discouraged. My dream of becoming a Military Officer was dashed but when I got home, I cheered up and prayed for a miracle.  My guy had high hopes because his elder sister, one fine runs girl like that, knew one top military officer. The man assured her that her kiddo will get shortlisted  🤗  Rumours had it that she paid him in kind and in styles.  Few weeks later, it was announced on radio that NDA had...

𝙔𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙊𝙠𝙖𝙛𝙤𝙧'𝙨 𝙡𝙖𝙬 excerpt from "𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒆'𝒔 𝑨𝒍𝒊𝒃𝒊" an unpublished novel by Samuel Thomas Jr. As soon as he subtly touched her, her body and hormones betrayed her. Passionate kisses and caresses ignited the wild fire of  adultery.  "I still love you Omawumi. Nothing has changed." Charles whispered into her ears and planted a kiss on her forehead. This made her feel special and loved again.  They both knew what they were doing was wrong. She wanted to stop, he wanted to stop too, but they were enthralled. Before they knew it, they were panting and engrossed in hot steamy sex. Apparently, she would have quickly headed home to her husband as soon as she could but Charlie's warmth embrace made her linger for some more. It's obvious that she'd rather stay were she's loved and revered than head home to toxicity.   She laid beside him and robbing his chest affectionately, his heartbeat g...

The way to the lecture theater was marauded with 100 level students of the faculty of Biological Sciences . Few seconds after I and Oluwaseun settled down, the lecturer got in and locked the entrance.  "Good morning class" the lecturer greeted.  "Good morning sir" some of us chorused while others shouted,  "Good morning uncle.."  "I want to set a record straight.  Listen and listen carefully.  I see that some of you are clowns here, well, my class is not a circus.  Once I'm in this class no one comes in or leaves, except I permit him/her to do so. The moment you are seated in my class, I become the Alpha and Omega.  If you are here to waste your time, then waste yours not mine or that of your serious course mates.  I'll make life hard for all the hard guys and hard babes. Flow with me and we'll all be fine.  Your parents or sponsors paid your tuition fees so that you'd pay attention, listen and learn, but you don't have...

 Maybe one day I'll be able to tell you about my journey up north - Katsina to write an examination in a night bus.  It was when Boko Haram started. I was the only Christian on the bus. Deep into our voyage, someone at the back seat started a conversation about religion. I got really scared when I discovered we had extremists on board. They said very awful stuff.  But someone in the bus opposed them, he was their brother. They shut him up and threatened to slay him beside the road if he dared say anything.  I sat quietly with my tail between my legs,  silently praying and hoping that my looks or inability to speak Hausa fluently (then) won't betray me.  "What if they ask you, who are you?" I asked myself. "Will you lie and deny your true identity?" When we got to Malumfashi at about 10:00pm, I was stranded because I didn't know my way and the network was so bad that I couldn't reach my host.  To make things worse, my phone's battery ran down (you...

When I was in primary 4 I had a best friend who was a bully in every sense of the word. He bullied younger students, his classmates and even some senior students.  I, his best friend was not exempted too. He often bullied and coarsed me to dash him my stuff or allow him copy my assignments.  If I told you he bullied some staff of the school too, you'd think that I'm making this up,  but it's the truth. 🙄 Our school was a mission school ran by Catholic priests who made sure morals and high standards were upheld with utmost seriousness. Despite all that, Steven was subtle and had his way around.  There was a Saturday we went to school for drama rehearsals and after it, we played football until we became tired and hungry.   When we got to the school's main gate, Steven greeted the security on duty and told him to give us money to buy biscuits and zobo. just like that? 🤷 I was amazed at Steven's effontry. He demanded the money as if the man were his pa...