Participants at yesterday’s Vanguard’s Conference Hall reached many conclusions among which was that the future of Nigerian football lay in the domestic football. The conference said efforts should be made to develop it if Nigeria is to be a force on the road to 2014 World Cup. This was after a thorough analysis of the problems bedeviling our football in recent time, which the conference noted were not different from the problems plaguing the larger Nigerian society. The conference agreed that there should be a re-evaluation of the statutes on which football is run, amending them where necessary to enable people with adequate knowledge of football to run it.

Coach Samson Siasia knows all about the unpredictability of the game of football. Having arrived at the FIFA U-20 World Cup Egypt 2009 as one of the favourites for the title, his team suddenly find themselves in the position of needing to win their final group game just to have a chance of reaching the last 16 as one of the best third placed teams.

Air transport has a unique advantage over all other modes of transport if speed, time and distance are major considerations. Air travel has developed very rapidly in Nigeria from the 1920s till date, but the 70s and 80s saw the development of many airports in many of the state capitals. Similarly, indigenous participation in the industry, originally exclusive to foreigners, has also expanded as indigenes acquired both the technical know-how and managerial resources, as well as funding to operate airlines.

By Ochereome Nnanna
The Nigerian Army was not cut out for direct roles in politics. Being an offshoot of the British military system which abides by the liberal democratic traditions of Western Europe and the USA, the Nigerian Army, even till date, is constitutionally mandated to submit itself to civilian authority. That is why the President [...]

By Emmanuel Aziken
The resolution of the Niger Delta question is prominently etched as one of the seven-point agenda of the Umaru Yar‘Adua administration. However, crystallizing a solution to the Niger Delta question remains a myriad like other notable elements of the seven-point agenda such as power, wealth creation and security.
Remarkably, a solution to the Niger [...]

By Jide Ajani
Looking ahead signifies an intention to go beyond the immediate, explore possibilities and plan for the future.  But how do you go beyond the immediate when the immediate is already ahead of you? How do you explore possibilities when the path to exploration is strewn with mines? Concomitantly, what manner of plans can, [...]

By John Egbokhan
Putting Nigeria’s sports in its proper perspective since  independence is one that requires little brainstorming, given that since sports is judged by results, ours is simple and can be summed up as a prolonged failure.
To put it straight, our score card in major international championships has fallen short of expectations. We have not [...]

By Dayo Benson, Political Editor
At 49, Nigeria as a nation remains a bundle of contradictions. As Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, once described it, the nation is a contradiction because what some people want negates what other people want and the result is what nobody wants. Almost half a century after independence, the country’s political [...]

By Sola Ogundipe & Chioma Obinna
At 49, Nigeria has nothing significant to celebrate. Unmet health needs are all Nigerians have to show. In the area of health, the nation has remained a  toddler, refusing to grow and develop. The current state of the nation’s health industry sharply defines the level of decay, deploration and decadence [...]

By Babajide Komolafe, Peter Egwuatu, Ifeayi Ugwuadu, Franklin Alli & Yinka Kolawole
The global economic recession, which started as global financial crisis reveals clearly  how underdeveloped and vulnerable is the Nigeria economy even after 49 years of independence.
Successive administrations have pursued the objectives of economic diversification and self reliance. The economy is however still a  mono-product. [...]