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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...

The (not so) Beautiful Game

Events over the years have left the beautiful game of football in a sorry state, especially in Nigeria. The crises can best be viewed by the state of affairs within the Nigerian Football Federation...

The Nigerian Nightmare In Germany

The Nigerian nightmare in Germany hurts but it cannot be said to hurt more than the daily looting nightmares we are being subjected to by our politicians from the local government to the federal levels of governance...

A Wonderful World Cup: Thank You South Africa (Conclusion)

Imagine my horror in Durban on my way back when I drove to the Durban international airport only to be told by the security officer at the gate that “there are no planes here”. I asked him “what kind of airport has no planes?”

The World Cup in South Africa: A Nation Awakes (part 5)

Nigeria has not won an international senior trophy for 16 years. That should tell you that Nigeria is not a very good football team despite what its people think...

World Cup: Folly Of Relying On Goodluck

I do agree that football certainly has a unifying character.  However, this lasts only 90 minutes and football has not emulsified us. We have spent billions of naira on football and the best we get is unnecessary heart attack...

Away With Foreign Coaches!

The man who became the Nigerian coach was a successful failure. Quite unlike Shuaibu Amodu, Lars Lagerback could not qualify his country, Sweden, for the World Cup. He and his managers took advantage of our unreasonable clamour for a foreign coach...

Big Butts and Big Thighs: My World Cup Odyssey in South Africa (4)

Nigerian fans can be annoying and inconsiderate brats at times. I had two guys carrying large Nigerian flags in the rows in front of, and behind me. The guy in front of me stood up and waved his giant flag all the time – blocking the view...

Football in Nigeria: Going Beyond E-imaging Eagles in 2014

To what extent are Nigerians using the digital thinking, e-imagination mind?  Where is our team on the digital scale? Do we have the e-Eagles? Are we thinking of the e-Eagles?

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The Human Tragedy

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If the state elects to break the law, the citizenry, in who resides the ultimate sovereignty, is being implicitly invited to break the law. Civil society has been shown by example, that the law exists not to sustain society...

Rescuing Delta: The Drift from Ogboru to Igbuzor

For now, may we say that the disenchantment of the people about Ogboru is not mono-causal.  We have said it well enough previously that Ogboru’s repeated failure in getting it right in the end each time the people give him the mandate has had incurably dampening effect on them...

The Writer as a Thinker: Charles Dickens Lives 200 Years On

It is a conviction that I have strongly held for a long time that those social humans, who think deeply and constantly reflect on the deeper things of life, live long and become anointed...

Re-Branding Nigeria: The Place of Peace

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the death toll from armed-conflicts stands at an alarming 9.2 million within the last ten years, which is equivalent to the population of either London, Central African Republic, Yokohama, Uruguay or Sydney to mention a few...

Ogebe Verdict: Celebration To Reason

Yar'Adua has gained hugely in stature and his style of ruling the country...he has carved out a support base…

Salami’s Travails, PDP Justices’ Sour Grapes

Irrespective of the claims of the ruling party, it is clear sour grapes on the democratization of Nigeria following their 2007 rape of our democracy is really the root cause of the current show of shame in our judiciary...

How Nigeria will develop!

We live in an age of science and technology. Nigeria can be powerful and advanced, only if it will become scientifically advanced and technically well-developed...

Bayelsa Governorship Election 2019: What We Know So Far – (Part 1)

On 16 November 2019, citizens of Bayelsa State will...

Buhari and Sowore: Birds of a Feather Flock Together!

Intercontinentally, Mr. Omoyele Sowore has displayed some maturity and...