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Volcanic Shocks On The World Cup Turf  

The 2026 World Cup tournament being staged in the United States, Canada and Mexico has produced more shocks than the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI)...

Rangers International In 9th Heaven Of Enduring Legacy  

Rangers International Football Club of Enugu has just lifted the 2025/26 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) trophy.  This marks a record-equaling 9th time of winning...

Godwin Odiye: Fallacy Becoming A Myth

As the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) awaits the verdict of FIFA on the petition against the Democratic Republic of Congo, it means that AFCON’s...

AFCON 2025 Final and the Power of Protest

It happened on 18 January 2026, under the humid atmosphere of a North African evening. The venue was the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in...

Panenka Penalty Saves African Football

Morocco’s leading scorer, Brahim Diaz, stood poised to make history - to score the goal that would end his country’s agonizing 50-year wait to...

Tribute to Lionel Messi (2)

This week, I have decided to take a break from the absurd and slippery slope of Nigeria’s socio-political realities to celebrate humanity. My choice...

Tobi Amusan: The Legend Nigeria Doesn’t Deserve, But Desperately Needs

In a country drowning in political scandals, corruption, and broken promises, one woman continues to carry the Nigerian flag higher than any politician has...

Peter Rufai: Jaja From Opobo Who Defied The Odds

The seventh month in the Gregorian calendar that precedes August was named July by the Roman Senate in honour of the fabled Roman general...

Boosting Super Eagles with Recall of Atlanta 96 Magic

The only thing that unites all Nigerians is the beautiful game of football. These are very sad times in Nigerian history and politics, and the...

Serena Williams’ Super Bowl Dance: A Powerful Statement Beyond the Headlines

In a moment that transcended the typical Super Bowl spectacle, Serena Williams electrified audiences with a brief yet impactful appearance during Kendrick Lamar's halftime...

Let’s Rig the Olympics

The Paris2024 Olympic Games cannot be forgotten in a hurry, especially as the Giant of Africa ended up winning no medal at all. Yes, Nigeria...

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The Babangida File

Babangida's vainglorious doings, self-promotion, dark charisma, magnanimity, generosity and even democratic credentials met a huge collision in June 12 annulment of Chief MKO Abiola's presidential victory and the assassination of Dele Giwa. His irruption into infamy, which manifested in his denial of Abiola's biggest achievement, cleaved this nation into warring tribes of implacable proportion...

A Compilation of BREXIT Opinions by some Nigerians in the UK

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Of Fulbright, Full Truths and Being Brightly You

Fulbright is many, many things wrapped up in one....

Echoes From The 27th Conference Of Parties To The UNFCCC – COP27

By Innocent Edemhanria About 112 heads of States and over...

He’s Just Not That Into You…

Sometimes we're so focused on finding our happy ending; we don't learn how to read the signs. How to tell the ones who want us from the ones who don't, the ones who will stay and the ones who will leave...

Money Politics: Nigeria’s Delicate Delicacy

I have written a few weeks back about the...

Cheap Kerosene as Antidote to Tree Felling and Deforestation

On January 24, 2015, the news came that the...

Nigerians: Please Stop Recycling

The candidates who have so far declared their intention to contest the presidency in next year’s presidential election include two retired Generals, who ruled the country for nearly a decade between them, and who first entered Nigerian government in 1975.  Although there is a case for experience, there has to be a sensible limit somewhere...

Sambo, leadership and Northern development agenda

As a cultured professional who is in the know, one thinks it will be somewhat hard for anyone to fault the Vice-President on painting the real picture of how many of the Northern political leaders with requisite huge resources to effect meaningful socio-economic development have cornered such to the detriment of the millions of their  people...

How not to roll-back malaria in Nigeria

While Nigeria was signing up to an international MOU of some sort to “support local production of malaria drugs and products” on the one hand, it is, on another, taking actions that may undermine the same local pharmaceutical firms...