Category: Reconnection

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 […]

By Olusola Adeyegbe When in preparation for my secondary school qualifying examinations I had to read the Gospel according to Mathew from start to finish, I was confronted with an account that showed that the Son of God faced acrimonious hostility from many detractors right from the start of His ministration till It ended in […]

By Olusola Adeyegbe Today is not for noise. It is for stillness. For honest reflection. For alignment. The Cross stands. And it speaks. _*“Father, forgive them…”*_ Even in agony, He chose mercy. This is your call to forgive. Fully. _*“This Day Shalt Thou Be in Paradise!”*_ To a broken man who believed. This is your […]

By Abdu Rafiu Today is Good Friday and it is a special day in Christendom. The day marks the anniversary the Lord Jesus Christ was dragged through all manner of humiliation, through mockery. He was beaten by soldiers; he was jeered at; ignorant mobs spat on Him. “And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns […]

By Abdu Rafiu The humiliation and shocking gruesome murder to which the Lord Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, was subjected will continue to revibrate in our souls as human beings throughout the universe, and gnaw at our conscience, especially on the occasion of the anniversary of the dastardly event that is being marked today […]