In this column, recently, I have labored to enrich our thoughts on certain sports development issues, particularly, relating to the role of government in sports. Secondly, I have vigorously argued that International Sports Federations are creations of the developed world as an extension of its imperialist programme.

M-Net, premium entertainment content provider for MultiChoice’s DStv, has always prided itself as ‘the home of magic’. That ascription has made one wonder from time to time, what justification is there in the claim? There seems to be one thousand and one reasons M-Net defines itself home of magic, but a clear one that rings a bell is its music talent-search reality show, now named Glo Naija Sings after the signing of a mouth-watering three-year deal with Nigeria’s indigenous telecommunication giant, Globacom.

Interview with the National Publicity Secretary of the All Nigerian Peoples’ Party (ANPP), Chief Emma Eneukwu
Vanguard: What voting method is the ANPP going to use to pick its 2011 Presidential bearer?

ANPP: We have not agreed on the mode of adopting who will be Presidential aspirant.

This is an insight into the diabolic movement of arms and ammunition from Asia to Nigeria and for possible onward shipment to a final destination, the attempt by the importer’s agent to evade detection and why implications for a country that has just been de-listed as a country of interest by the United States of America over last December’s attempted bombing of an airliner by a Nigerian, Farouk Abdulmutallab.

Mary was obviously going to be the star in her family, even when she was just a baby; her parents knew that she was special. Her growth was no different; she was so fast that at age thirteen she was all grown up with all the features. She was beautiful, an exact opposite of her parents plainness with intelligence beyond her age. Truly she was meant to make her family proud.