Cadbury’s Head of Corporate and Government Affairs(West Africa) Bala Yesufu has expressed hopes that the Super Eagles will soon find their rhythm in their bid to pick the tickets to the 2017 African Cup of Nations and 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.

Nigeria’s dream to play male soccer at the Rio Olympics may blow up in smoke today if the country’s under-23 side fail to beat Algeria and Egypt defeat Mali with a clear two goals in the final group B matches.

The original idea was to carve an enclave out of Nigeria in an area mostly populated by the Igbos among other ethnic groups like the Efiks, Kalabaris, Ibibios, Ijaws, Ogonis and others, stemming from a violent disagreement in the Northern part of the country, which put the lives of people sojourning there from the Eastern part of the country in danger. The exodus which ensued when the Southerners, mostly Igbo, streamed back home to save their lives, gave passion to the desire of keeping away from the North. That desire was resisted and crushed by the armed forces of the rest of the country in a war which has been tagged “Biafra” by some people and “Unity by others. That is history. No nation should go through that awesome experience twice. Hardly any nation can.

Ellsworth Huntington an American geographer, explorer and associate researcher at Yale University in the early 20th century propounded the theory of environmental determinism. According to himenvironmental determinism is the effect of climate on human heredity and civilization which breeds superiority of peoples of the temperate zone to those of the tropics and intermediate zones.

Some of the testimonies at the recent two-day programme of The Lords Chosen Charistmatic Revival Church located at Ijesha in Lagos can only be described as absurd but authorities there insist that what they call a “canal mind may never understand the workings of the spiritual.” A woman from Onitsha told a tale of how, after her marriage, she gave birth to a baby girl. According to her, she got pregnant again and desperately desired a baby boy but to her utter dismay, various scan examinations confirmed that she was carrying another baby girl. Determined to have a baby boy, she said she went to a Lord’s Chosen programme at Onitsha and prayed God to intervene.