Category: The Ram

By Abdu Rafiu It is evident that this year’s Christmas Festival will go down as about the most sombre in the last 50 years that I have consciously experienced the wonderful Yuletide Season. It is a season of great expectations, of light and purified air. It is a period you feel so light, swept off […]

By Abdu Rafiu Julius called Umar this morning. Umar sprang from his bed and rushed to pick the call from where he was recharging the battery of his phone. He had only one bar left. The battery had run that low because he had had unrelenting power outage for days. Now that the light was […]

By Abdu Rafiu Death has stalked the land, raiding villages and towns, and stumping cities to add to its already disturbing haul. We are befuddled and left aghast by the development. Before an obituary could be crafted for one, many more people have fallen victims. Mr. COVID-19 is prowling in the dark and in broad […]

By Abdu Rafiu The sun set on the bright life of one of Nigeria’s foremost journalists. Death by its nature hardly gives anyone notice. In the age of technological wonders, in the era of permutation by doctors, predictions by stargazers after consultation with their crystal balls; in the age of artificial intelligence, death still manages […]

By Abdu Rafiu The governors saw the absolute necessity for another tier of policing in the land a long time ago. They are in the saddle and even if only on paper, they are the chief security officers of their states, a role encrusted in the constitution. That is rock-clad. Yes, they hold security meetings […]

By Abdu Rafiu The events of the last one month have proven more than ever before how urgent it is that we examine and reflect on the extant security architecture of our land. If bandits could dare to abduct police officers on assignment on an expressway, there is no other signal that can be picked […]

By Abdu Rafiu The outgoing President of the United States, Mr Donald Trump, has gone into the trenches fighting the battle of his life what he avoided going to Vietnam. The world predictably is watching keenly. I say outgoing because I have some Republican Senators to bear me out and these are important voices — […]

By Abdu Rafiu In August, I wrote a two-part series on the unique place of women in our world and that a woman is a woman by the nature of her activities. Professor Nduka speaks from time to time in gatherings on Girl Child, on Women, their place or their plight. She writes: Woman, A […]

By Abdu Rafiu Today, I yield place unusually for my leading article to a thoughtful contribution by Dr. Stephen Lampe, an author of books and articles. The taste of the pudding, as they say, is in the eating. Enjoy the reading.   By Stephen M. Lampe It is now June 2022 and the national trepidation […]

By Abdu Rafiu The youths jolted the whole country last week when Nigerians woke up to find that they had taken to the streets to ventilate bottled up grievances against the police. They went on to list a number of transgressions they have drawn up against the authorities. As it turned out, the demand for […]