A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY INTO ARUA (A STAFF OF ONYISHI) IN EHA-ALUMONA TOWN OF NSUKKA L.G.A, ENUGU STATE. By Tobe Eze

A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY INTO ARUA (A STAFF OF ONYISHI) IN EHA-ALUMONA TOWN OF NSUKKA L.G.A, ENUGU STATE.

ABSTRACT

Symbolism is very common in every religion. Sometimes it is this symbolism that gives a religion identity. Like the Catholic Church, their Bishop is known with his crozier, mitre and other things a bishop wears, you do not need to make further inquiry to know the position or the status of the person when you see the person. It is on this ground that I wish to go into the research on Aura which is a staff given to Onyishi when it reaches the person as a symbol of authority in Eha-Alumona town of Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State. The Arua is not a staff any one can get or when one takes any title in the community one will get it, no, it is only meant for one person in a village which is ordained by God as it is popularly called in Eha-Alumona (Egba Maa buru celebration fixed by God). The Arua stands for something and that is what I inquired for. I used majorly interview for there is no work written on it as of now. This involved elderly men in some villages in Eha-Alumona. I employed the help of three Respondents whose cooperation were instrumental in the successful study of Arua. There submissions were synthesized and hermeneutically analysed for better understanding. Continue Reading.................

PREMARITAL SEX: THE ORDER OF THE DAY. By Tobe Eze

PREMARITAL SEX: THE ORDER OF THE DAY.

INTRODUCTION.

Sex is keeping to the original plan of God, it is intrinsically not an evil act. It was willed by God that a man and his wife should procreate and share conjugal companionship through the act of sex. With the advent of sin in the history of humanity, and in this age more than any other, the abuses on the act of sex call for a redefinition of sex to secure the purpose for which it was originally created. There is plethora of ways in which sex has been abused. This includes, adultery, fornication, bestiality, pedophilia and lots of them. This article, however, shall focus on the issue of premarital sex and its moral, social and health implications. It is only the way, the time, the place and the persons involve that make it sin, not sex itself. Everything we do on this earth has its own time. Even the Bible recorded it. There is time for everything……, (Eclesiastes 3). And sex is not an exception. Continue Reading.........................................