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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...

Kalu, Anyim and Peace in Nigerian Football

Dr. Kalu it was who led Enyimba of Aba, as then Governor of Abia State, to break the 38 years old Champions League failure plague that had trailed Nigerian club sides..

Redefining our sports agenda

I belong to the school of thought that avers that football has an over bloated ego in this country of ours. I do not believe that football engenders unity, or subscribe to the wishy-washy thinking that football unites us...

Siasaga

The call for the scalp of the embattled Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, as a totem to appease the impregnable coliseum of teeming fans of the Super Eagles, is understandable...

Siasia’s Super Eagles and NFF’s Dangling Axe

Although Nigerians appreciate the football house’s decision to hands off the senior national team, at least publicly, abandoning it during crises is a colossal travesty. They should be fixing problems not leaving them with the coach to fix...

Rebuilding Tennis in Nigeria: A Reflection on Segun Odegbami’s Vision for Tennis

Our vision is to see talented Nigerian tennis youths successfully completing our tennis and education programs, and successfully obtaining tennis scholarships and moving on to compete vigorously at national, continental and international competitions...

Football in Nigeria: A Conversation with Chief Segun Odegbami

For the past two years, we have been writing and debating the effects of over-aged players in continental and international competitions on Nigeria’s image and respect around the world...

Putin on Blueberry Hill: Giving Russia A New Image

Between   now and 2018, one seriously hopes that the Russian Government would have put its anti-racist strategy into good use. It will be a tragedy for the FIFA games if as a result of reckless behaviour by some fans with indefinable characters of hooliganism, African players walk off the field...

Thank you, FIFA, but no thanks!

My parents did not teach me to be arrogant, neither did my teachers. Arrogance is something you could pick up along the road of life, and sometimes too when you seem blessed with the benefit of some hindsight...

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The season we are in is very much still appropriate to redeem the glory-past; except of course if we are content and would desire an extreme madhouse...

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Afrofest In The Park

Nadine’s enthusiasm for Africa would shame most Nigerians. We are so much into being other people that we lose all sense of identity. We would rather embrace the artificial and empty cultures imposed on us by the mass media than seek answers in our own culture, music, and arts…

Is the Nigerian Judiciary Robotic Constrictive in the Corruption War?

What is the purpose of law? The purpose of law in Nigeria certainly, cannot be to give ringing endorsements to persons who have been censured, persons who have received public opprobrium at home and abroad...

Can Northern Governors Stop Jonathan?

Without admitting it publicly, the greatest problem Northerners in the ruling People’s Democratic Party have in wrestling the 2011 presidential ticket of the party from President Goodluck Jonathan is the absence of a formidable aspirant that can win votes across the country...

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In Search of Nigeria’s “Credible” Politicians

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Kudos To The House of Representatives

The Senate, meant to be the leading legislative body, has in recent times been a rubberstamp. It has been conniving with the executive to the detriment of the nation’s development...

Obj’s Master Plan

The untold story of Yar'Adua is shocking to the extent that Western countries have placed Nigeria on their watch list, and now follow the political development in the country with greater interest…

Rebranding Nigeria: Role of the Youths

As youths, we should see ourselves as political architects that would rather build into our National future than political archeologist that will concentrate on digging from the relics of our past political failures...