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Next generation of Falcons, by Patrick Omorodion

The 2026 FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup may have come and gone but the memories of it would linger for a very long time. The competition which is the lowest among the age grade competitions put together by football’s world governing body, FIFA as nursery for the senior teams participating in the Women’s World Cup […]
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We have a choice on liberal democracy (3) 

From last week continues the narrative on liberal democracy, its shortcomings, source, forms and distinction with other systems of governance  LIBERAL democracy traces its origins—and its name—to the Age of Enlightenment. The conventional views supporting monarchies and aristocracies were challenged at first by a relatively small group of Enlightenment intellectuals who believed that human affairs […]

Expected exchange rate after N1000/$

When in late November last year, I was invited as a facilitator for a sales training workshop, the participants were startled when my lecture started with a graph. The graph traced the trend of exchange rate since 2020; it ended with a projection for 2023. I correctly predicted that exchange rate for 2023 would reach N1000/US$1. None of the participants believed me. I repeated it in VANGUARD early this year when currency change precipitated economic lockdown nationwide. So, just remember this; irrespective of how you feel about N1000/US$1: VANGUARD told you first.  

Emir Visits Obong: Handshake across Nigeria, By Dele Sobowale

“Epanimondas was a monarch who knew what to do only if he knows how to go about it.” Plutarch, 45-120 AD. Epanimondas, 401-362 BC, a General of Thebes, in the Hellenic Age, was a General and statesman when nation-states were led to war by their leaders. Plutarch, one of the world’s greatest historians, in two […]

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