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Christian Madu versus Mensah, by Emeka Obasi

Christian Madu versus Mensah, by Emeka Obasi

Ghanaians regard Robert Mensah as their best goalie, ahead of Edward Doodo Ankrah, John Naawu, Joseph Carr, John Baker and Richard Kingston. One man who found a way round the goalie was Christian Madu, a Nigerian born in Kumasi. Madu’s salad days in the Gold Coast were spent with his parents, Herbert and Ezinne, who […]
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Peter Obi and St. Philomena, by Emeka Obasi

Peter Obi and St. Philomena, by Emeka Obasi

Politicians must know when to draw the line between terminological inexactitudes and fact. I was born at St. Philomena Hospital Benin City in the First Republic when there was no Mid – West Region, it is nauseating to hear Comrade Senator Adams Oshiomhole jive about Labour Party leader, Peter Obi. Oshiomhole, a former governor of Edo State, […]

Ahudiya Nnem, Kun Khalifat, by Emeka Obasi

Ahudiya Nnem, Kun Khalifat, by Emeka Obasi

People of the South -East must rise now to rid the streets of loose, unemployed youth terrorising everyone, from Enugu to Ebonyi down to Anambra, Imo and Abia. I love what Dr. Richard Onyeani (Roco) and Michael Chukwudi Amaefula are doing. Sports, especially football, is one huge industry that will not only empower many, it will also […]

ESUA: Trenchantly focused, by Emeka Obasi

ESUA: Trenchantly focused, by Emeka Obasi

There are books and there are books. In this age of Fast Cash, many Nigerians do not read especially when all they need to drive big cars and drink exotic wine is paint all sorts of obnoxious deals with the Yahoo brush. There is trouble waiting for everyone. I am glad Offiong Esua took pains to put […]

Between Amosun and Buhari, by Emeka Obasi

Between Amosun and Buhari, by Emeka Obasi

The uninformed may be wondering why Senator Ibikunle Amosun stayed put participating in the very last funeral rites that took General Muhammadu Buhari to the unknown world of the dead. Friendship without inhibitions played out. Of all the people who shouted Sai Buhari between 2015 and 2023, you could count the true friends of the former president. […]

What Ironsi told Bamigboye, by Emeka Obasi

What Ironsi told Bamigboye, by Emeka Obasi

General Johnson Aguiyi – Ironsi was firm when he ordered Captain David Laisi Bamigboye to stick to  Beatrice Chinyere Asagwara forever, after their wedding at St. George’s Garrison Church, Point Road Apapa on Saturday February 6, 1965. Ironsi who was the General Officer Commanding (GOC), Nigeria Army, chaired the wedding reception which held at Headquarters, Nigeria […]