Nigeria’s Super Sand Eagles were beaten for the first time at the Copa Lagos Beach Soccer when they lost 4-5 to Ivory Coast on Saturday.

The Super Sand Eagles who have won the three previous editions of the Copa Lagos trailed the Ivorians at the end of the first period by two goals.

The dream of every woman is to find a man to spend her entire life with. Even the Holy religious books have enjoined men and women, to seek each other out and cohabit as man and wife. But as beautiful and simple as this may sound, marriage has long gone from being a simple item on a menu, it has become a task, as finding a true life partner has become as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack. It is particularly more difficult for the womenfolks as they have to be proposed to.

I am trying very hard to study our Senate President to know what he is using to bring all senators together without rancor so that I will use the same method in my constituency”. These were the words of a senator from the north-western part of Nigeria when he was commenting on a controversial issue pending on the floor of the Senate.

It is a bit difficult to celebrate with others when one is not so joyous, it can be a little trying to be happy for others when one is anything but that. I like to engage people in often painful and truthful arguments, the truth can be very bitter but it is also liberating; misery likes company and happy is not always best of friends with sad. I was sitting down listening to the heartfelt angst of a young friend and it took me back to the years when I was in the group of “misery likes company”, you know that group, all of us have one time or the other been active members.

Recent study indicates that majority of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria become moribund after few years of operations, while fewer than 10% of all start-ups in the country thrive and grow to maturity.