Category: The Ram

By Abdu Rafiu It has been a week of youth discontent sweeping through the land. It began with youth protest march in several parts of the country demanding the scrapping of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad more widely called SARS. The police unit was set up to combat armed robbery, banditry, kidnapping and kindred violent crimes.  […]

By Abdu Rafiu Everyone knows when he is happy; each person feels it to his finger tips. We also know when we feign happiness but keep a straight face, perhaps out of courtesy before our peers and acquaintances. The warmth and glow of happiness and the concomitant aura can’t but envelope the happy man. It […]

By Abdu Rafiu It is inherent in all human beings to desire happiness and to ardently long for it. We pray and strive to attain happiness. We seek it in several ways. Some look for it in the woods; many on mountain tops. A great many still by the seaside, on beaches. Yet many pursue […]

By Abdu Rafiu Mercifully, the war drums fell silent in Edo State on Saturday. In place of war drums, it was undisturbed victory songs; it was rejoicing and dancing galore. On the streets and in the village squares. The fear of an Armageddon dissolved, thanks to the police high command’s disinterestedness, but purely professionalism this […]