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Whose time is it? By Patrick Omorodion

Whose time is it? By Patrick Omorodion

There is a saying in our local parlance that ‘if one man own no spoil, another man own no go better’.? This means that “One man’s loss is another man’s gain.” In 2015, then president of FIFA, Joseph Sepp Blatter was in his fifth term as president of football’s world body when he ran into […]
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Another unpalatable story, by Patrick Omorodion

Another unpalatable story, by Patrick Omorodion

When Anezi Okoro wrote his comedic novel, One Week, One Trouble, about a boy who got into trouble in school almost every week, he never knew it would fit into the character of the Nigeria Football Federation, especially the current one headed by Ibrahim Musa Gusau.  Like the proverbial tortoise that is always in the […]

These defections and this democracy, by Ugoji Egbujo

These defections and this democracy, by Ugoji Egbujo

Gov. Peter Mbah has left the PDP for the ruling party. Gov. Diri is packing his defection bags. Gov. Soludo is proposing an alliance of the progressives: a capitulation that spares him the tag of a defector. Fubara is a caged bird. Adeleke is keen to defect. By 2027, all the state governors in the south could […]

A level playing field for your children, by Francis Ewherido

A level playing field for your children, by Francis Ewherido

I have previously written about the dangers of having a favourite or favourites among your children: only male child, first male child, eldest child, baby of the house, “the most intelligent child,” etc. The same process brought them into this world, so I do not really see any reason for the favourite child syndrome while raising them. […]