Nigeria to host African business women’s advocacy forum
Vital Voices Global Partnership and Women in Management, Business, and Public Service (WIMBIZ) have announced that they will host the Supporting Public Advocacy for Regional Competitiveness (SPARC) Program and Forum in Lagos.
Sports needs more than money
ADMIRABLE efforts are always being made to resuscitate the National Sports Festival, but it is clear the days of the National Sports Festival, as a productive venture are shortening. The increasing low standards, cheating, corruption, poor officiating and can only turn the festival into a huge ceremony with all the trappings in place. We are witnessing one in Port Harcourt.
More Stones For Glass Court
THE Nigeria Football Association headquarters, more famously known as the Glass House, can attest to the lyrics of Peter Tosh. Blows are being thrown in various directions, even by those who cannot take blows.
Mobil Out Of Athletics, What Next?
We should appropriate some things as national assets. Among them is the social responsibility agenda of some of key organisations in our environment. On my mind today is Mobil Athletics Championships that the oil company has sponsored for decades and which it said it had finally decided to stop.
Something Exciting As Confusion Continues
ONE reason the challenges Nigerian football is facing will not go away quickly is that people are more interested in justifying illegality, sharing blames, shifting blames and pretending nobody is wrong. The denials are worsening – there is no crisis in Nigerian football, is a regular refrain.
Crises, More Crises For Football
I CANNOT lie, I am happy about the cauldron Nigerian football has driven itself into without a possibility of escape from sanctions from FIFA, the Nigerian public and government.
