Category: The Ram

By Abdu Rafiu The surprise meeting of the Southern governors during which they took positions on problems bedeviling the country has predictably generated reactions. That they met at all caused consternation and uproar particularly from some leading lights of Northern extraction. The laudable and mature decisions were even more disconcerting what you would think calls […]

By Abdu Rafiu The Governors of the Southern States have at last been rudely woken up from their slumber to recognise that the people put under their charge are facing existential challenges. It is the people they combed the length and breadth of their states with promises to serve and pledges to protect. They took […]

By Abdu Rafiu It cannot be without cause that we are told it is love that makes the world to go round. Everyone can sense and appreciate love beamed at him. I am talking of genuine love not sham, pretended love borne out calculation. There is an uplifting feeling when we are seized by love. […]

By Abdu Rafiu The issue of security is on the lips of nearly everyone. The deaf is being made to hear and the blind made to sense its waves sweeping through the land. Insecurity is advancing untrammeled to reach the doorstep of nearly every home in Kaduna and Zamfara in the North West and Niger […]

By Abdu Rafiu The masses of the Jews, their passion whipped up by the political and priestly establishments working in collaborative hatefulness, vociferously demanded the crucifixion of the Son of God, Jesus Christ. The priests and political circles believed that the Teaching of the Lord was undermining their power and influence. The priestly circles found […]

By Abdu Rafiu What really are the facts surrounding the death of the Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross? For more than 2000 years, it is a question that has agitated minds of a great many. In thinking circles, in theological schools, among scholars and researchers the question is being asked — from year to […]

By Abdu Rafiu Easter was celebrated in all Christendom at the weekend; it was rounded off on Monday. The occasion afforded us yet another opportunity to reflect once more on the life and times of the Lord Jesus Christ. No matter how we look at it, a moment descends on our soul which calls for […]

By Abdu Rafiu The curtain was drawn yesterday on the three-day activities in celebration of the 80th birthday of the man we call “ID Noble,” Professor Idowu Sobowale, easily the face of modern journalism in Nigeria. It was not so much of clapping, dancing and rejoicing except predictably in the church, ShepherdHill, Baptist Academy premises, […]

By Abdu Rafiu Every now and then all of us human beings find ourselves at a crossroads. There is a struggle between what is right and what is wrong within us. Sometimes what is right is considered to be wrong. We do not yet have a clear picture. When the picture comes it is overruled. […]

By Abdu Rafiu There is hardly any gathering where the issue of same-sex union is mentioned that there is no wrinkling of faces and an expression of disgust. There is often the sinking of the heart and the air of disapproval is thick. Even though the lobby that gender differentiation is out of fashion is […]