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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...

Rio 2016 – Why We Really Failed

Just a few days after the just concluded Rio Olympics, Mariam Usman, a Commonwealth medallist, said she has lost the urge to represent Nigeria...

Morolake Akinosun: A Nigerian Hero

Morolake Akinosun is a Nigerian-American. Her parents are surely among the Diaspora-Nigerians contributing immensely to the socioeconomic development of the United States. Morolake Akinosun is...

The 2016 Rio Olympics and the Perpetual Failure of a Nation

As we ecstatically inch towards the finale of the greatest sports fiesta in the world, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics in Brazil, it...

Farewell to Legends!

Few weeks ago the world boxing community in particular were knocked into unconsciousness literally when the sad and ugly news made the rounds around...

2 Changes: 2 Coaches and 2 Days

Two eminent Nigerian coaches, Stephen Keshi and Shaibu Amodu, discovered and joined two different coaches on the train that journeyed to a different realm....

A Tribute To Muhammed Ali

"Life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not give me satisfaction. God gave me this illness to remind me that...

Leicester: Lessons In Greatness

Leicester City is one of the oldest cities located in the Midlands region of England. Less than half a million folks live there. Sir...

FIFA: Fixing the Fixers!

Like millions around the world I have a special interest in sports in general and football in particular. Apart from my primary hobby of...

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Obi Nwakanma’s The Horsemen and other poems reviewed

In The Horsemen and other poems, Nwakanma gallops through many seasons of war, ploughs through many cemeteries of fallen dreams, scales okra covered walls and chases dreams that never left our huts in the first place. And the reader comes upon this land of alien deities, and lands exhausted on the unwelcome mats of these strange people that worship feuding gods...

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Where is the popular or notorious-depending on your stand in this matter- manuscript attributed to Major Emmanuel Arinze Ifeajuna? How fares this unpublished work by the man who is regarded in certain circles as the overall leader of the plotters of January 15 1966?

Disobedient Nations and the Wrath of God

Every living soul must praise the Lord. By living souls I mean those social humans who obey God’s Commandments, His laws and precepts. His testimonies are clear and impeccable...

Condoms, HIV/AIDS And You!

Following my article published here entitled, "Nigeria's Last Virgins", Dr. Anthony Odoh, a Nigerian physician in Spain, sent me this very illuminating paper...

Nigeria:  Let’s Discuss Ambition

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Solititude And Melancholy 2: Just Before We Forget

The problem that drew me out of my comfort base today into a seemingly familiar residence in solitude and melancholy is why it is so convenient for people and public affairs commentators using a collective “we” to push blames of political and economic woes in Nigeria from “them” to “us”.

Prosperity, Eternity (10 ): Brotherly Love, Spirit’s Unction and Life for Evermore!

We are individually called unto Holiness. That is our individual identity that we must keep and grow in. Its taproot must be firm in the Cross of Calvary where we are saved and where all graces flow to keep us through this dark world of sin...