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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...

Rangers International @ 54

When the Nigeria-Biafra war ended in January 1970, there was gloom in Igboland. Even as the then Head of State General Yakubu Gowon made...

Afcon2023: Nigeria To Face Cameroon as Round of 16 Permutations Supervene

At last the three preliminary match days of Afcon2023 have come to pass, albeit with a mixed grill of expectations and surprises. Consequently, upon...

Christian Chukwu MFR – Afcon Legend

“It is hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember” As the continent of Africa celebrates the greatest feast of football for...

The African Soccer Jungle Gets Ready To Rumble

From 21:00 (West African Standard Time) on Saturday January 13th 2024, the 34th edition of the Confederation of Football (CAF) sanctioned Africa Cup of...

Sports Minister Enoh Charges Ezenwanne To Win Para-Powerlifting Medals For Nigeria

Nigeria’s Sports Minister John Enoh is poised to take Para-Powerlifting to a new height in Nigerian sports. At a recent meeting of the Presidents...

Ezenwanne Leads Nigeria To Triumph At Dubai 2023 Para-Powerlifting World Championships

The President of the Nigeria Para-Powerlifting Federation, Ichie Chiemeka Charles Ezenwanne, has led Nigeria to yet another triumph at the just concluded 2023 World Para-Powerlifting Championships held...

How Jide Oyekunle Uses Football to Build Journalists

Many Nigerian journalists throw parties whenever they are tapped as chief press secretary, CPS, or appointed a media aide to a politician. Apart from...

CKC Onitsha Won World Cup For Nigeria In 1977

I had a pleasant phone call from my dear friend, Benjamin Uzoka alias Avenger, who had the distinction of winning a world cup as...

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It is now widely accepted that Nigeria is slowly on the march towards a national renaissance, a re-awakening of the consciousness of the citizens towards their responsibilities, and those of the government...

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One wonders why Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, Fredrick Fasehun, Gani Adams and Asari Dokubo were incarcerated while Obasanjo and his EFCC continue to watch Adedibu’s bold fingers writing Oyo State black...

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Do we have bosoms? Do we know how many battles the church has either shied away from or even “lost”, as it were, because many who say and sing ‘Abraham’s blessings are mine’ have no bosom?

Dr. Leke Pitan’s Schools’ Tables and Chairs

Is Bola Tinubu’s administration a government that has welfare of Children at its heart? What has happened to Schools’ Inspectorate? Is the news of dearth of Chairs and Tables new to the State government? Is the interest of the Governor limited to the gimmickry of transferring authority of the State to children for one day?

Who Killed Major Nzeogwu?

In conspiracy rife Nigeria, all manner of rumours and apocryphal stories have alleged that Nzeogwu was murdered in a Machiavellian plot engineered by Ojukwu to eliminate him or perhaps that he was killed while trying to defect to join the federal army. As always, the truth is much more mundane...

Soyinka Strikes 88 in Fine Fettle

Today is the great man’s 88th birthday. Given all the...

No Tears For PDP

PDP, that party that flatters itself as the biggest party in Africa, is strapped to a death bed. It is hit with a serious ailment. It is ravaged by schism and implosion from within...

Swearing in public servants by Juju

Our country still suffers a lot of poverty in the midst of plenty and it seems to me that only something as radical as the total annihilation of corrupt people can save us...