The conceptual and contextual study of the terms Bakassi and 419 in Nigeria are either scanty or even lacking in modern African scholarship. Although some scholars have written on Bakassi, they mainly focused on the aspects of the Peninsula and international conflict resolution. Also, literature on the contextual description of the numeric 419 is also very scanty in African scholarship except for a few who have approached it mostly from the perspective of cyber security. Using the exposition approach, this present essay, therefore, aims at showing various perspectives of the word Bakassi in Nigeria on the one hand and the local description of the numeric 419 in Nigeria, on the other hand. This will contribute to knowledge in the aspect of the conceptual and contextual meaning of Bakassi and 419 in the African lexicology.

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This paper focuses on reading Deuteronomy 22:22 in John 8:1-11 within the cultural context of the Urhobo people of Nigeria. Using a feminist hermeneutics approach, the aim of this paper is to examine how Deuteronomy 22:22 and John 8:1-11 constitute injustice to and oppression of women. The texts resonate with the Urhobo cultural narrative on sexuality in the similarity of treatment accorded women and men in both cultural milieus: the narrative of women's ordeals are established by the fact that women are accorded low status in both cultural settings. Drawing on existing literature and the selected texts, several nuances such as grammar, enactment and implementation, historical distortion and differing of intentions in Deuteronomy 22:22 and John 8:1-11 are also identified.

Human activities on earth either pose threat or safe haven to human environment because such human activities contribute to climate situation. Using the exposition method, the aim of this paper is to explore religion in the prevention of possible environmental disaster and the mitigation of post disaster scenario. Drawing from the 2011/2012 flood disaster in Nigeria, it shows that it was human induced in the sense that it was partly caused by blockage of water channels such as drainages. The paper argues on a general note that weather and environmental scientist set the agenda for environmental prevention through scientific means but religion helps to work on the mind of the stake holders and carry out the campaign of the agenda to their adherents. By so doing, religion is playing its role in environmental protection.

The interpretation of the concept of κένωσις in Philippians 2:6-7 has been widely approached using the historical critical method, which is mostly western oriented, but a contextual approach of κένωσις in Philippians 2:6-7 from the perspective of African Christology in relation to African leadership style is lacking. Therefore, using the African biblical contextual approach, the article reinterprets the term κένωσις based on African christology with the aim of reinterpreting κένωσις in Philippians 2:6-7 in the context of African leadership style, and also with intension to critique the African model of leadership. It argues that Jesus as a leader figure as represented in the concept of κένωσις in Philippians 2:6-7 is a model of selfless leadership which is lacking in African leadership figures. The article also intends to show how the description of Jesus' attitude in Philippians 2:6-7 reflects humility, selflessness and servantleadership as against African leadership style, which is characterised by self-conceit, selfishness, ostentations, splendour and bossiness. Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications:This essay reinterprets the concept of kenosis in Philippians 2:6-7 in the context of African Christology and how it resonates with selfless leadership as exemplified in Pauline description of Jesus Christ in the text. From observation, leadership in various spheres of the society in Africa, such as ecclesiastical, political and traditional, lack selflessness as indicated in this article. This article, therefore, cuts across the field of biblical theology, historical theology, political science and African cultural studies.