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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...

Avoiding Future Dismal Sporting Outings

And so Nigeria returned from the London Olympics empty handed? And so we came back not even with a wooden medal? And as is traditional with our dawdy and bankrupt system, we are keeping a straight face about it?

Can we share in their glories?

Take a Nigerian and you have a survivor, take two Nigerians and you get two competing survivors, take three Nigerians and you get a series of contradictions. That in part is the story of Nigeria in the just concluded successful London Olympics...

The Olympics and Great Britain’s magic wand

Take just an English and you have a dull person, take two English and you get two dull people, take three English and you get a great nation. That in part is the story of the successful Olympic Games we are currently witnessing in London...

The African Olympics AD this century

Organisers of Olympic opening events are taking their cue from the musical, Chicago, and when it will be time for Africa, Richard Gere’s ghost will be ever so lightly tap taping with patent leather shoes, smiling and urging...

Sports success the Spanish way

Spanish sporting success in July 2010 amply reflects the country’s overall stature in world sports at the moment and it is perhaps the most convincing argument yet why Spain is so far, arguably the most dominant sports power of the 21st century...

YEKINI: Crocodile Tears for a Nigerian Hero

“Is Nigeria worth dying for?” asked the moderator at a recent event in Nigeria’s premier University, Ibadan some weeks ago. How apt? In a hall packed with young Nigerians in their early twenties to mid-thirties, not one hand went up in response to this rather innocuous question about sacrifice to father land...

Let us form a group to honor Rashidi Yekini

Rashidi Yekini is dead. He died on Friday. Yekini was by all accounts a devout Muslim and was quickly buried the next day, in accordance with Muslim rites. Going by reports we have, the mode in which he was buried is however unacceptable. No need to mince words here, the burial given to Rashidi Yekini is unbefitting of the man and his country...

Rashidi Yekini – Fond Memories and Timeless Lessons for Nigeria

Scoring the first goal for Nigeria at the World Cup wasn’t the only reason why Nigerian football lovers loved Rashidi Yekini. The football loving fans of that generation saw Rashidi Yekini as a sign of hope on the field of play. In other words, there was nothing to worry about as long as the dark complexioned man was on the pitch...

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Encomium/Kennis Music Green and White Party: How Do You Celebrate Nigeria?

I write as a Nigerian who has observed with dismay how we have inadvertently allowed music as a form of art to undermine the fight against Advance Fee Fraud in general and the Internet form of it, in particular...

The Many Sins of Governor Rochas Okorocha

Owelle Rochas Okorocha, the Governor of Imo State has sinned. You might chuckle that all have sinned and so what’s the big deal? But his own sins are unforgiveable. They are mortal sins and no redeeming grace can remedy him...

There is an Evil in our Land

“There's an evil in our land, And a foe...

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Environmental Problems Are Everywhere, Solutions Too

At the opening of the ‘Environmental Reporting’ programme organized by the International Institute of Journalism, IIJ, in Berlin, participants find out that environmental problems may  not be peculiar to Africa and Asia alone...