Category: Reconnection

By IkeChukwu Unegbe Another year turns the corner so as to allow a ‘new’ year to emerge. Excitement naturally fills the air. Many look forward to the New Year, hoping it would usher them into the longed-for life of bliss. ‘Old things have passed away…’, they jubilantly echo. These ‘old things’ must include the difficulties: […]

By Sola Adeyegbe As one year loosens its grip and another waits quietly at the door, many of us find ourselves asking a difficult question. Did this year happen to us, or for us? The answer matters, because it shapes how we step into what comes next. Hard times often arrive wearing the face of […]

By Sola Adeyegbe There are longings that do not shout. They sit quietly in the heart, growing deeper with time. The desire to nurture a child is often one of them. It is not merely the wish to hold a baby or to answer to the name of parent; it is the yearning to guide […]

By Abdu Rafiu The spate of mindless murders for rituals has been on the increase for a while. When these are added to killings by terrorists, bandits and kidnappers the situation becomes exceedingly worrisome. With the emergence of General Christopher Musa as Defence Minister there is renewed confidence as those who vouch for his character […]

By Olusola Adeyegbe Surrogate pregnancy is a place where the heart’s deepest yearning meets the miracle of life. It invites questions of ethics, law, and love. Beneath these, however, rests a simpler and more profound inquiry: what is the intention behind our actions? For in the eyes of the Creation Laws, it is intention rather […]

By Abdu Rafiu Barely three weeks ago, we discussed the issue of indigenous languages as medium of instruction in the Nigerian schools. It will be recalled the Federal Government expressed worry over mass failure in public examinations and it blamed the troubling situation on the use of indigenous languages used as medium of instruction in […]

By Abdu Rafiu We can think for a moment what the world would be like without laws governing the affairs of men whether as nations, in societies or in international relations. There are constitutions regulating the affairs of nations, associations of whatever colouration and clubs. In schools, in colleges and in homes, there are rules […]

By Abdu Rafiu The trumpet of insecurity is blowing louder by the day, literally speaking. It is blowing loud enough for the deaf to hear and the accompanying air thick enough for the blind to touch. The waves are sweeping unrelentingly through the land, mostly through the Northern states. It was such that the Speaker, […]

By Abdu Rafiu What we had thought was settled has unfortunately been re-opened: it is the subject of employing indigenous languages to teach children in their early part of schooling. The National Language Policy which formally gave the nod to the use of indigenous languages to teach in primary schools has been thrown out of […]

By Abdu Rafiu Each day, each major burning issue, raising tension in the polity! Each time, it is hot potato! Otherwise, how do we place the unfortunate public spat between the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Mr. Nyesom Wike, and a young Naval Officer, Lt. A. M. Yerima? Alarmed high ranking retired officers of the […]