Category: Reconnection

By Abdu Rafiu As it is in the nature of elections, there is dancing and rejoicing; there is celebration. That is in the community of winners. In the circle of losers, there is gritting of teeth, squeezing of mouth; sorrow and disappointment stalk at the doorstep and there is recrimination: How are the mighty fallen! […]

By Aanuoluwapo Ogunadele Greetings All, Gratitude for giver of Life, a renewed elixir we have just received. We know but as a refresher. This power stays not with us or within us. It flows. It is us who have to BE in the flow of this renewed power stream running through all creatures. How does […]

.By Aaron Ukodie I am currently reading a book in which the author, an American pastor, confessed that many pastors in America have never preached on the Judgment Seat of Christ. If that observation is accurate, it is a matter of concern because the doctrine of judgment occupies an important place in the teachings of […]

By Abdu Rafiu The Month of May, noted for its unique and glorious blessing, is closing its cycle on Sunday, to be handed over to the ever-refreshing month of June, which in our clime is characterised by heavy rain. It is the month when rains do not just fall, but pour in buckets, trying to […]

By Abdu Rafiu What a relief! I was alarmed following a video making the rounds that another incursion into the Ogbomoso-Oriire axis by bandits was only minutes away and students began to flee their school. Women in panic headed frantically for the school, Are-Ago High School, Ogbomoso, to fetch their children. It turned out to […]

By Abdu Rafiu There have been attacks by South Africans on fellow Africans in what sounded like a replay of what foreigners faced in Ghana in the hands of Prime Minister Kofi Busia in 1969. As it is today in South Africa, Nigerians fell the most victims in Ghana that year. Whoever did not have […]

By Abdu Rafiu It is increasingly being proven that nothing reveals the nature of man than the pursuit of power, position, money and influence. For the modern man, the veritable vehicle thereto in our clime is no other than politics. For a majority of politicians, the end justifies the means. Politics in most African countries […]

By Abdu Rafiu We are in the age we can gauge fairly well the mood of people in different parts of the world. The modern man is blessed with all manner of technological tools with which he can survey the world and measure the heartbeat of nations and peoples. What with television, what with Facebook, […]

By Abdu Rafiu The season many a Nigerian approaches with trepidation is almost here. The political gladiators are already warming up; the parties are rehearsing. Two of them have put up statements. Felix Morka, the APC National Publicity Secretary drew attention to the party’s Timetable and Schedule of Activities for 2027 General Elections signed by […]

Abdu Rafiu About a year ago, leading politicians in the land, undoubtedly looking for space and platform moved to African Democratic Congress, for short, ADC. The movement has turned out to be a disappointing misadventure. We are talking about our political juggernauts, the leading lights in the firmament. See the roll call: Former Vice President […]