Category: The Ram

By Abdu Rafiu The focus of my reflections of today is on the challenges of old age. However, one cannot speak about the challenges without delving into immeasurable blessings and beauty that trail and still line one’s path in the journey of life.  What with a baby grandson of yesterday today grown up and enamoured […]

By Abdu Rafiu The readers may be wondering why I say ‘again.’ It is to connect the past with the present. It is about Lai Mohammed’s unrelenting efforts to hamstring the Media since 2017. It is not unusual in these climes to have spacecraft in readiness to transport leaders into the clouds for them to […]

By Abdu Rafiu For thousands of years mankind have separated naturalness from their lives. The word naturalness sounds Greek in many a circle, whether in social, political, even in educational circles many would strain their ears and ask you to say that again. The nearest it gets seeming resonance is in science, even then it […]

By Abdu Rafiu ‘From my observatory’ is not a headline that I can claim to be original to me. I am taking liberties to borrow it from one of my mentors—the one and only Allah-De of blessed memory. He used the phrase not infrequently, if you see what I mean. Restructuring is a bye-word in […]

By Abdu Rafiu For some time there has hardly been a day without one depressing report or the other assailing Nigerians. Thank goodness, there came some breath of fresh air the other day when a collection of leading figures from across the land gathered to deliberate on the state of the nation. The gathering, comprising […]

By Abdu Rafiu Life is a struggle. It is a statement we often hear. It is drilled into children by parents and guardians. It is driven hard into pupils by teachers. In higher classes, enlightened teachers say to their students: You must stretch yourselves. In circles of friends, in the congregation of workers, the saying […]

By Abdu Rafiu The Buhari-led Federal Government has lately been in the news for the wrong reasons–apart from for the predictable deadpan routine such as Professor Ben Ayade visiting to wave his new APC flag. Before him, the august visitor for whom the APC red carpet was spread was David Umahi, Governor of Ebonyi State. […]

By Abdu Rafiu There is this inexorable sliding down the slope of the cliff in most parts of the world. In Nigeria, robust discourse is fast giving way to rancorous threats of violent conflict. The air is filled and thick with talk of imminent war and you wonder: Do we know what we are saying? […]

By Abdu Rafiu On practically daily basis, we go through experiences, either collectively or individually. Some of the experiences are harrowing and saddening; just a few are uplifting and joyous. What with hundreds of thousands, nay, millions in hospitals around the world. Many a man is at the theatre of war—yes, armed to the teeth […]