Category: Reconnection

By Abdu Rafiu There is no belabouring the matter that sorrow not only stalks the land, it is ravaging it. So thick is it you can almost touch the emanations that fill the atmosphere. But for its widespread nature, you could almost want to hold it in its intangible folds and condensation and throw it […]

By Abdu Rafiu As I was saying…Artificial Intelligence more known as AI is stumping confidently like a conqueror through all lands. And I begin to wonder: Is this not the Orwellian world we were warned as far back as 1954 would come? When the Soviet Union, that unnatural union of a nation, disintegrated, thanks to […]

By Abdu Rafiu There are and will always be all kinds of children. They consist of those that are well brought up and those that are ill-bred. There will be good children and vagabonds will abound. There are deprived ones, evincing lack of parental responsibility and care. A legion of them flooded the streets during […]

By Abdu Rafiu The country is stumbling from one crisis to the other. The Sword of Damocles which had been hanging over the nation’s neck has been partially put back in its sheath, partially because a governor, Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State only yesterday said that he would not be able to afford the minimum […]

By Abdu Rafiu With an impassioned speech by Israel, except there is a miracle which can come only on an alignment of the volition of each party in the conflict, it does not appear there will be light soon at the end of the tunnel. The tunnel is getting longer with the possibility of engagement […]

By Abdu Rafiu As I was saying…From experiences of the aftermath of every struggle, the gains turn out to be illusions. The worker comes out worse in the end and, indeed, the general populace who have to grapple with fresh and enervating inflationary currents. The Scarghilian tool of yesterday does not necessarily fit today into […]

By IkeChukwu Unegbe, Esq. The season comes around, once again, when many desire to join in the commemoration of the succession of events that led to the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ; generally known as Easter! Very unfortunately, those succession of events leading up to Easter are generally misunderstood or misinterpreted. Yet, for the […]

(New Year musings by IkeChukwu Unegbe, Esq.) The earth, as a living component of the wider Creation that she is, must be looking forward to the festive months of December and January, each year when the majority of the population of human beings devote time to ‘traditionally’ exchange prayerful goodwill messages/wishes for the approaching ‘new […]

By Victor Bassey Earthly life! It comes with a series of ups and downs. Today you find yourself being able to pay your bills with a joyful and glowing face, only to wake up tomorrow and find that a difficult task and then next tomorrow again, the joys return. And the experience continues In all […]