Arsenal had amassed more points than any other club in England over the last three seasons, yet they were still branded losers and bottlers. In a world of fickle metrics, success is measured in the harshest, most linear way possible. And  winners take all. Clubs pumped up on financial steroids can despite 115 overdue  charges, spend  stupendously […]

This week, I am doing what I may have done only once before since I started keeping a newspaper column in February of 1978.  I am giving up my space for an article written by respected Chairman of Stationery Stores FC, Adetilewa Adebajo.  As the 2025/2026 football season comes to an end, his article that […]

I first met Aderemi Muyinudeen Makanjuola in 2003 when I was Special Assistant to Dr Abiye Sekibo, the then Minister of Transport; and he immediately struck me as exceptional.  He was a serious, no-nonsense entrepreneur and perfectionist. He had a creative and technical mindset – an unusual combination in my experience. And I later discovered that […]

The world  reset in 1945, or so it thought. The Second World War which had taken about ninety million lives, had come to an end. Humanity erupted in joy. To many  of the colonized, it was a war for human freedom. But they were mistaken. The European powers that had ignited the war were the same […]

THE few days were days of anguish; headlined by the horrific developments in Oyo State. Now that the whole of Nigeria is in the firm grips of these felons, I remember that about a year ago, I warned about this development in a piece on this page on May 23, 2025. I reproduce it below: The Barbarian […]