As you read this piece on this beautiful Friday morning, a public holiday has been declared to mark the 50th Anniversary of this country’s political independence from our colonial masters.

In defending his master’s action, the Special Assistant to Dr. Sam Egwu the former Minister of Education who was alleged to have made this strange recommendation to the then acting President, Mr. Kelechi Igwe said the recommendation was based on “security report” on the candidate that should have been offered the appointment.

ABUJA—Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, has assured the people of the state that given another four years, he will take the state to another level. Sylva stated this,  while fielding questions from journalists at the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Secretariat in Abuja, shortly after submitting his gubernatorial nomination form as well as the […]

THE Believers’ LoveWorld Inc. Delta State, is to commission four water projects to put smile on the faces of residents of Agbassa, Mechanic Village, Igbudu and Merogun in Warri, Delta State and rekindle their spirit of nation building on the occasion of the country’s 50th independence anniversary.

Thus – in my books – it is easy to understand why and how the feats of two illustrious ring warriors have painfully been cancelled out by the passivity of the same one-time trail-blazing sport that has swept itself into a pathetic back-bencher position. This is the sad anniversary account of 50 years of boxing in Nigeria.