Category: The Ram

By Abdu Rafiu I have for a long time been following the Facebook handle of Funke Aboyade with more than passing interest. Funke Aboyade is a lawyer, a practitioner at that. But she loves writing. Apart from newspaper law reporting, following in the indelibly imprinted footsteps of Dr. Olu Onagoruwa and Kola Awodein, she is […]

By Abdu Rafiu The controversy in the United States over women’s right to terminate a pregnancy was given fresh impetus last Friday when her House of Representatives sought to overturn the Supreme Court ruling on the subject last month. That court had spiked its decision of 50 years under which expectant mothers could shelter to […]

By Abdu Rafiu The rate at which events are piling up is mind-boggling. It is not even the acceleration and intensification of these events that are shattering as much as their content. Hardly is one able to catch his breath than purveyors of information assail us with fresh incidents, what they define as Breaking News, […]

By Abdu Rafiu From the revelations contained in the video tape of what was titled “The Silent Scream” to which reference was made last week, and the voice of gynaecologist Bernard N. Nathanson who took viewers through an ultra sound scan, a lot of people must have been rightly persuaded that foetus is a human […]

By Abdu Rafiu In all lands and in all societies, laws including what lawyers call the grundnorm, are made to engender peace and harmony, order and predictability through regulation of behaviour in relationships of whatever kind. Laws are to uphold societal values. They are to check arbitrariness and lawlessness. The United States Supreme Court ruling […]

By Abdu Rafiu The report about the shameful shabby treatment which is being meted out to the Justices of the Supreme Court has further exposed how low our country can go. There is hardly any institution that is held sacrosanct any longer, that is insulated and kept away from the ravaging waves of the rot […]

By Abdu Rafiu The position of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and several commentators on the controversy surrounding the choice of Vice President in the next dispensation is understandable. What would have passed without a whimper some years ago is today an issue. In 1992 when Moshood Abiola, MKO, picked Babagana Kingibe as his […]

By Lekan Adams It is so simple, indeed so elementary that we pay scant attention to it. Yet it is everything there is to life. Every cause produces an effect! A deeper examination of this statement will reveal that it is not necessary to see something before we are able to determine its existence, for […]

By Abdu Rafiu Four days ago, the ever-so-glorious month of May closed its cycle to usher us into the month of June. May is a month of restoration. It is a month of awakening. To those who have pre-occupied themselves with what can be called the characteristics of each month, it is, like April, a […]

By Abdu Rafiu This column is unwilling to get drawn into endless political discourse week after week. Politics which man has devised for himself as a vehicle of service has become an instrument of unedifying struggle for power, for place hunting, personal aggrandizement, for renown and kindred ephemeralities as well as the attendant hate and […]