THIS year’s Muslim fasting season, the Ramadan, could not have come at a more auspicious time than now when the Nigerian nation has just emerged from a political conundrum that threatened to split the country. The sighting of the new moon in some places yesterday (subject to confirmation by the religious authorities) has signified the end of Shaban and meant the beginning of a month-long fasting for all Muslims worldwide. Yes, the general elections of last March and April marked a watershed by producing, for the first time in this country, a new Federal Government led by the opposition party. The campaigns and the elections were conducted under a foreboding atmosphere that led many people to believe that Nigeria was about to fulfill a political prophesy of disintegration. That the predicted apocalypse did not happen and instead, the political environment was imbued with hope today make the Ramadan’s commencement highly significant. Aside the spiritual import of Ramadan being a...
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