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Ehizode: Canagerian for life, by Emeka Obasi

Welcome to Canada, the land where Nigeria’s first Commonwealth gold medal was achieved by Arinze Ifeajuna at Vancouver 1954. Daniel Igali won Olympic gold for the North Americans and also captained the team. Joe Ehizode, like many Nigerians, has found home in Surrey, British Columbia. He was a sports journalist before relocating nearly three decades ago. Denying […]
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South-East will rise again, by Emeka Obasi

Leadership goes beyond moving around in convoys, waving from air conditioned bullet proof wonders on wheel and attending wine sampling parties from tropical Africa to choice locations across Planet Earth. The South – East Geo Political Zone has suffered enough, from within and without. I am glad that governors and other leaders of that very blessed area […]

‘Looters should be shot’, by Emeka Obasi

The level of looting going on in the country is beyond human comprehension. Those involved are not just men and women in power. Corporate organisations, government institutions and private businesses are all part of the mess. One retired security expert has been so frustrated. For a long while, the over 80 years old man continued to bewail […]

Give me Anioma State, by Emeka Obasi

Those Igbo who survived the war, were also forced to survive the peace. And to make ends meet, some of them pretended not to be Igbo

Tinubu’s Super Eagles, by Emeka Obasi

Qualification for the 2006 World is beyond those presently saddled with that responsibility. President Bola Tinubu should as a matter of national emergency, take the Super Eagles to the Presidency as a full fledged Department. Bringing the senior national soccer team so close to Tinubu is the only way the wrongs of the last four […]

Obi as Soyinka’s notelette, by Emeka Obasi

Prof. Wole Soyinka will soon clock 90, we must continue to celebrate his past and throw the present into the forest of infamy. Some of us tend to forget that WS is a dramatist and will continue to write about everything, until his last hour. Anyone who expects the Nobel Laureate to ignore Peter Obi, […]

2027 not for North, by Emeka Obasi

The Fourth Republic will go down in History as Nigeria’s darkest part where many criminals walked into power effortlessly, bringing along sorrow, tears and blood.  While we beam searchlight on bandits, militants and ritualists, some politicians continue to enjoy patronage. Barely 12 months into the Bola Tinubu presidency, some  politicians are plotting to fly a […]

Elumelu is coming Ooo, by Emeka Obasi

Soccer is our national religion where Christianity, Islam and Tradition join hands to spread love. There is neither Bishop nor Imam, fans sing in Igbo, dance like Hausa, drum the Yoruba way without any minority disapproval or political incantations. Chairman of Heirs Holdings, Tony Elumelu, represents Nigeria. Born in Jos, at home in Ibadan and […]

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