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Nigeria, Africa’s largest team fails in Congo

Nigeria, Africa’s largest team fails in Congo

After about fifteen days of competition, the curtains will, today, come down on the 11th All Africa Games in Brazzaville. And as the delegates depart to their respective homes today, the participants have sad and sweet memories, hard lessons that have been learned and perhaps new experiences.

The writers of distinction 1

The writers of distinction 1

I was at the celebration that ushered Prof. JP Clark into the Octogenarian circle. I was told, and so many in my generation also, that JP was a lecturer in the Department of English, University of Lagos, where I later came to study and teach. I have imaginative (text) knowledge of JP but a visual knowledge of Ebun Clark. Not long after was another, similar celebration: Soyinka at eighty. I quickly want to make few comments on JP Clark’s, of course, which is belated.

Mama @ 82

Mama @ 82

My mother was 82 years two Saturdays ago, but like many of her previous birthdays, except the 70th and 75th, it passed by like a ship in the night: unheralded. Not that she would have celebrated if we wanted to. The appetite is not just there, not after the loss of two sons within 19 months.

Werder Bremen’s Ujah reveals what makes him a village boy

Werder Bremen’s Ujah reveals what makes him a village boy

Last season was a wonderful one for me and my club. There were difficult moments but on the whole it was a successful season. For me to be able to score 10 goals for a team that was highly defensive like my team, I feel and believe that it is an achievement I could build on.