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F/Eagles: Okoku backs Uwe, by Emeka Obasi

Andrew Uwe led the Flying Eagles to bronze at the USSR 1985 FIFA Under 20 World Championships. Later in the year, he was part of the Leventis United squad that played in the finals of the African Winners Cup. The towering defender featured for Iwuanyanwu Nationale in the finals of the1988 CAF Champions League. Now, […]
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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

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

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

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 […]

Ukpabi Asika the great, by Emeka Obasi

No individual did more for the Igbo after the genocidal Civil War than Ajie Ukpabi Asika, a First Class Economist produced by the University of Ibadan, who was appointed Administrator of East Central State in 1967. Strangely, those who should praise him only remember that he did not support Biafra. Asika and his wife, Chinyere, returned from […]

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