I am from Uromehe community in Urhonigbe North ward, Oriomnwon local government council of Edo State. I was born 55 years ago, attended St Pius Primary School, Uromehe as it then was, now Iyobosa Primary School; it was a Catholic institution. From there I wrote my common entrance examination and passed.I had the choice of attending either ICC, Edo College or Western Boys High School,but, because I am a Catholic, I chose to attend Immaculate Conception College (ICC), Benin. When I finished at the ICC, I proceeded to the United States immediately where I got my first degree in political science and thereafter to the Law School where i got my doctor in jurisprudence degree. I proceeded again to specialize in international and comparative law in Washington. After that, I came back to Nigeria and went to the Law School;i was called to the Bar on October 17, 1986.

The Congress Hall of the Transcorp Hotel was on Tuesday 30th October besieged by the creme-de la-creme of the Nigerian and African society. It was a case of a rare feat that can only be achieved by a rare gem.

DELTA State School of Health Technology, Ufuoma-Ughelli has graduated 5,167 from its various health disciplines covering the academic sessions of 2005 to 2011.

Ekanpou Enewaridideke is a vociferous writer and a committed apostle of the Niger Delta struggle for self determination. As a writer, he has directed his huge creative talent to the exploration of the various strands of alleged injustices meted against his poorly developed but oil rich region.

The National Sports Festival began 1973 with the sole aim of promoting unity amongst the ethnic groups in the country after the Civil War as well as to discover hidden talents that can be harnessed and groomed for the future. Thirty nine years down the road, the aims and objectives of the founders have been truncated.

In 1988 Mexican football fell to the lowest point in its history. After fielding four over-age players in the qualifiers for the Under-20 World Cup, FIFA decided to ban all the country’s national teams from international football for the next two years. Apparently, the men in charge at the time didn’t trust the quality of young talent in the country and resorted to cheating in order to achieve decent results in the international arena.

How best can one pay tribute to the memory of the great Oloye, the undisputed king maker of Kwara State and former Senate leader, the late Dr. Abubarkar Olusola Saraki, the Waziri of Ilorin?

When I saw the headline ’22m malnourished in Nigeria, others’’, my reaction was ‘Not Again!’. Throughout our civil war, and many years after it ended, whenever some foreign media houses wrote anything on Nigeria, they would publish pictures of badly malnourished people, especially children with Kwashiokor, along with the news item.

Boxing coach, Pa George Anyanwu has lamented the poor treatment meted out to Nigerian boxing coaches in the last couple of years after toiling to bring about good direction to the sport.

The Nigerian tennis community is mourning the death of its life and grand patron, Dr. Olusola Saraki, who gave up the ghost Wednesday in Lagos.