Category: Reconnection

By Abdu Rafiu There was dancing and rejoicing when Mele Kyari announced with glee that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) had pulled through and what seemed impossible to the doubting Thomases and pessimists had become possible. The Warri Refinery machines were set to roar back to life. Kyari, the Group’s former Chief Executive […]

By Olusola Faboya The only valid context, in which the phenomenon of genetically modified products (GMOs) can be contemplated, is in the instructive Outworkings-of-Nature! Rightly understood… the motivation, the attempt and the act itself, to modify in the slightest degree, any ripened and matured offering of Nature, will amount to a brazen distrust of the […]

By Kayode Oseni · When a couple is devoted to one another, a foundation of mutual trust, respect, and harmony is established. Each partner can embrace vulnerability, knowing with certainty that the other will support them unwaveringly. However, once a third party is introduced into the relationship, the anticipated fidelity becomes compromised, leading to a […]

By Abdu Rafiu My colleague, Funke Egbemode is back at her beat after a stint in government, as commissioner for information, back to do what she knows how to do best. When my colleagues go into government I say they have gone in for their IT! They have gone to see the inside of government, […]

By Olusola Adeyegbe. This Easter season, a video has gone far and wide on social media. In it, a lawyer—poised, articulate, and clearly well-read—is asked to comment on the death of Jesus. His response? Jesus Christ was murdered. With the certainty of a courtroom submission, he laid out his argument, even citing case law to […]

By Abdu Rafiu Every student of the Bible will be presumed to be familiar with the Great Sanhedrin that can be regarded as equivalent to the modern-day Supreme Court in most countries of the world that pride themselves as subscribers to the doctrine and practice of the Rule of Law. Cases move from lower courts […]

By Olusola Faboya In the definition of democracy, as a concept and system of earthly governance, the central role and relevance of the human creature, is made very clear! It is a system of earthly governance, that was conceived out of the human mind, run by human wisdom, with all its evident limitations; to subserve […]

By Abdu Rafiu The last may not have been heard about the imperativeness of holding up Professor Humphrey Nwosu as a national hero and lining him up in the Hall of Fame among the nation’s true men of honour. The Senators fell short in not recognising him as such and imprint his imperishable legacy in […]

By Oyeyinka Fabowale Now, let me be clear. I do make exceptions and sometimes give beggars money, which may appear a contradiction of sorts. But I do so only when my mind bids me do it. And when that happens, I know It’s absolutely meant to be. So, if I could afford it in that […]

By Abdu Rafiu Dr. Tai Solarin, the irrepressible fighter against illiteracy and its attendant product, darkness, as well as awful cognitive impairment, was wont to warn that an educated citizenry is easy to rule, but difficult to ride, easy to govern but impossible to enslave. It is even more so when it concerns a well-educated […]