Category: Reconnection

By Abdu Rafiu Predictably, there have been torrents of reactions to this column published last week captioned Awujale and Funeral Rites. Some of the responses wondered why Oba Sikiru Adetona submitted himself to be crowned King if he was not prepared to abide by the tradition and custom attendant to the throne. It was therefore […]

Abdu Rafiu There have been heated debates on the rites of passage Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona elected for himself and which those charged with the responsibility carried out upon his departure from earthly life. The mounting of the throne comes with certain rites which are in line with age-long practices and which have become mores. […]

By Olusola Adeyegbe In an age where intellectual reasoning is exalted and feelings are elevated as the compass for decision-making, we often witness heartbreaking personal choices that are less about truth and more about confusion. I recently watched a video of a woman mercilessly asking her husband for a divorce. She confessed that her husband […]

I have come to this conclusion, not just from books or sermons, but from the steady drumbeat of real life. From watching friends, colleagues, family members, great men—men of wisdom, strength, and wealth—choose to retire… only to quietly fade into sickness, into sorrow, and then, far too soon, into the arms of death. Retirement, in […]

By Abdu Rafiu There are no fewer than seven theatres of war in the world today which have invited more than our passing attention. I am referring to the major ones which have been in focus for a while, much more so currently. These are Russia versus Ukraine; Israel-Hamas War; the armed conflict in the […]

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, […]