Category: Reconnection

By Abdu Rafiu As in nearly all great events, we human beings move about unsuspecting and when hinted about any of them we hardly believe, except where there are ceremonies, where there will be dancing and rejoicing. But when the event invites us into deep contemplation, it becomes enigmatic and we do not want to […]

By Abdu Rafiu It was so elating, so touching seeing and listening to Major-General Chinedu Nnebeife hand over the freed Oriire school children and their teachers, victims of kidnapping, to the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde. It was at a gathering comprising some senior officers from different arms of our security forces and senior state […]

By Abdu Rafiu Colleagues and readers of this column have drawn my attention to an article by Mr. Tayo Lawal which I was to discover has gone viral, if I may borrow the language of social media users about a subject that elicits quite an interest and has unimaginably been widely circulated. The beautifully crafted […]

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu By Femi Kusa PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu is saying Nigeria’s insecurity problem are causing him sleepless nights, depriving him of sound sleep, causing him to lose weight and age faster than he probably would have, and that all these personal problems are hidden underneath his heavy native robes. I believe the […]

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 […]