A few weeks ago, my piece titled ‘Returning to the glorious days of our National Championships’ was a lamentation of how our National Athletics Championships are now a far cry from what was obtainable in the past, where fans and athletes alike all knew they would be treated to the best of performances because Nigeria’s best athletes home and abroad would all assemble to fight for their spots on the National team.

President Muhammadu Buhari has urged more young men and women in Nigeria to pursue sporting careers, which can bring rewarding incomes, promote healthy local and global relationships, and ensure unity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s assertion in his social contract theory that man is free but everywhere in chains touches the heart of the existential struggle of liberty and its lack thereof. Coursing through the existential highways and byways challenges one with the stark reality of man’s deprived condition. This ontological indigence constraints freedom and constitutes easy allurement to, and ready alibi for the expression of his original deprivation.

A brace for Robert Lewandowski was not enough to save Bayern Munich from making a spluttering start to the new Bundesliga season as the reigning German champions were held to a 2-2 draw at home to Hertha Berlin on Friday. Lewandowski insisted that visitors Hertha had been “lucky” after he saved a point for Bayern […]

What really is the effect of the military and paramilitary uniform on the average wearer? Does it give them an uncommon sense of responsibility and remarkable social conscience and a disposition of service to the nation?