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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 Irresistible English Belle that has Stolen Nigerian Hearts

For most football enthusiasts in Nigeria, the month of May brings with it some sort of 'summer blues'. May is the month of the year when the curtains traditionally fall for the season on most football leagues across Europe...

Pharaoh crumbles under the pyramids

Kano Pillars football club of Kano, Nigeria may well be justified in branding themselves as 'Conquerors of Pharaoh's almighty army of Red Devils'...

Ndanusa’s Vision for Sports in Nigeria: Toward a Sustainable Implementation

The purpose of this essay is to continue the conversation for the transformation of sports in Nigeria as part of the movement in the Diaspora to contribute to national growth and development...

The Roads to Soccer Stardom

Kids with potential soccer prowess are all around our neighbourhoods. From the roads or bare grounds beside households, they graduate to school soccer fields, from where they head to local sports stadia where scouts discover them...

Nigerians In The Diaspora: Toward A Search Of Identity

There is a movement in Nigeria to reach out to Nigerians in the Diaspora. This movement is gaining momentum within the National Assembly and elsewhere...

A Tribute to Chief Segun Odebgami: “My Legacy to Nigeria”

I join my colleagues in the Nigerian sports community who have expressed deep joy and words of support to Chief Segun Odegbami, one of the most influential former national stars, for the creation and actualization of the International Sports Academy...

Etim Esin and his 100 Million Naira Okocha 'Project'!

Like millions of soccer-loving Nigerians at home and abroad I have been following with rapt attention the off-the-pitch "unfriendly match" involving two retired football greats, Austin 'Jay Jay' Okocha and Etim 'Maradona' Esin...

Football Is Not Played On Roads

In the 21st century, we are still celebrating, building roads, pipe borne water, rural electrification, etc. I wonder how backward and mediocre in thinking the FIFA delegation must have thought us to be, when instead of talking about the needed specifics and showing what is on ground, the officials were talking about the roads that have been built...

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Nigerians Attending Universities In Ghana

It is important to state that with Nigeria’s fabled human and natural endowment, we have no business whatsoever sending our students to any school within the West African sub-region for tertiary education...

A Crucial Message To My Igbo Brothers and Sisters

This is the time to begin to clamor for...

Health of the nigerian people: not a national priority

The 2011 federal budget which put health at number four position behind defense, education and police has again brought to the fore the fact that the health of the Nigerian people is not a national priority...

On the Resignation of Okonjo Iweala

I wish to congratulate Ngozi Okonjo Iweala for her service to the nation and for her resignation. When young people mention the good that is happening to Nigeria, they include her...

The Ageless Myth: Is Age Really Just a State of Mind?

The concept of aging has long been considered a...

Towards 2011 General Elections

In Nigeria at the moment, the sensation you get is that of great displeasure of the populace towards their ‘leaders’. This disapproval has no ethnic, religious or cultural affiliation as leadership has failed across the entire nation...

Get Rich Or Die Trying

Poverty and a crippled economy have forced hundreds of thousands of children out of Nigerian schools into the streets to fend for themselves and their families...

Edo 2024: Will My Vote Count?

By Eben Enasco As the 2024 governorship elections approach in...

The Salutation of the Flag and Anthem

Preambles: Recently, a simple incident that could have passed...

Atiku, Ojukwu, Iwu, and the culture of expediency

The time has never been riper for the emergence of a formidable opposition force to dislodge the People's Democratic Party from power. Yet, there are disturbing signs, once again, that Nigeria’s opposition parties are looking for every means or opportunity to surrender to the PDP...