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 […]
One more round
It can no longer be any kind of news to you that, like a multiple thunderbolt, the death of three icons ripped through our sports world within a matter of a few days. From the United States of America, we learnt about the home call of Muhammad Ali, who was the boxing heavyweight champion of the world three times. He said with his mouth that he was the “greatest”, and made the world accept it in no uncertain manner.
Getting our priorities right
“The White House said President Barrack Obama will not attend the funeral of Mohammed Ali, which coincides with the eldest daughter’s graduation. ‘They will be attending Malia’s high school graduation in Washington DC.’” (Vanguard, June 8, 2016). Can you imagine that? Obama, the first black American president, did not physically pay his last respect to the legendary Mohammed Ali, a fellow black great and arguably the greatest boxer of all time.
Buhari vs The Niger Delta Avengers: Time to take the bull by the horns
The Niger Delta Avengers have left a trail of kept promises and a crippled economy. They are in unambiguous terms, economic terrorists. They have tried to hide their sophistication with a fig leaf of poorly scripted twitter feeds. They pretend to defend the interests of the people of Niger delta but are not ashamed to publicize their diabolical affiliations with corruption. The Avengers may indeed be naïve and reckless. But those, whose surrogates they are, who have instigated this violence , are cold , and criminally manipulative.
Alaba Rago: Where aboki turns waste to wealth
At Alaba Rago in Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State, nothing goes to waste. Every discarded object –pieces of iron, paper, plastic, wood, bottle, just name it – comes into use. There is no recycling bank there, but all kinds of condemned objects find a role to play in the economic life of not only the people (especially Hausas generally referred to as Aboki, an Housa word for friend) who run the place, but also outsiders who throw away those objects in the first place.
Paying more in glutted fuel markets
Today we are in the club of nations producing petroleum and not knowing what to do with it; groping and wallowing in memories of long-gone old days of not knowing what to do with our petrodollars. Collectively we have not been able to utilize our innate releasing mechanisms to stimulate triggering instinctive behaviours to tackle identified challenges.
