Category: Reconnection

By Abdu Rafiu A video went viral last week showing a boy, presumably four years old, struggling with his father who was trying to undergo boarding formalities at Ahmadabad Airport in India for a London-bound flight. That was on Friday, the 13th of this month. When it was time for the father to pass through […]

By Abdu Rafiu A great many of our compatriots and undoubtedly silent non-Nigerians as well who see the solution to Nigeria’s worsening security challenge in the establishment of state police must have heaved a sigh of relief in the President’s speech last Monday, when he said the setting up of “state police is no longer […]

By Abdu Rafiu Most of us human beings are yet to open to great events occurring in our world, in the cosmos. Mankind is preoccupied grappling with existential posers, pursuits and responsibilities. This is in an atmosphere politicians befuddle minds and dim our gaze with their unrelenting quest for power, money and influence, and promises […]

By Olusola Faboya Maidenhood…is a very important phase, in the development-trajectory, of the female human creature! What the Creative Will, in its benevolent Outworkings had conceived and proffered, is for this phase of adolescence to seamlessly follow the period of undisturbed childhood…and to duly precede a focused adulthood! The bewildering and disconcerting reality, is that […]

By Olusola Faboya The seemingly apt, but at the same time, a very instructive statement, that… “Marriages are made in Heaven”, is sometimes uttered and heard in the human society. And they come from intense and gravely challenging experiences, that people have gone through, most times very sour and bitter. But, in the attendant recognitions, […]

By Abdu Rafiu It is hope-filling that the Northern Establishment has thrown its weight behind the establishment of state police to tackle the disturbing waves of insecurity that have bedevilled the land for more than a decade now. The piece of news must be a thing of joy to all men of goodwill who have […]

By Abdu Rafiu Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, the national chairman of APC, does not see anything wrong in a one-party state and from his body language he will not mind if all parties in this country collapse their structures and move over to the APC. Addressing State House correspondents last week Friday upon emerging from a […]

By Abdu Rafiu Our education system has been under threat for a very long time. Consequently, standards have been going rapidly downhill. The decline was poked into our faces only last week with the just released JAMB results. Some university dons have had cause to draw public attention to gaps in supposed passes in flying […]

By Olusola Faboya Most people who are bothered and genuinely concerned, about the morally noxious phenomenon of Pornography, may not easily know how and where, to situate their thoughts, regarding the stealthy-entry of this moral blight, into the human community on Earth! Pornography, is the worst dishonor in pictorial form, that can ever be visited […]

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 […]