The popular boxing axiom that a fighter is as good as his last outing does not always work out in a champion’s favour. If this is true, Manny Pacquaio sees himself detached and plummeting from his lofty planetary rating to being a beatable earthling.

THE fact that the Bible talks of good success also presupposes that some successes could be bad. In contributing to this view, a friend reminded us that any success that cannot be accessed is bad.

We knew the day would come. It would have happened this time last year when he was hit by a catatonic stroke. But, just like the great warrior that he was, he fought death for another year and bowed as all mortals eventually must.

The former leader of the secessionist ‘Republic of Biafra’, Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, died in a London hospital over the weekend, at 78 years. As is the wont, there has been an outpouring of emotional tributes in the wake of the passing of one of the most controversial figures in Nigerian history.

ALTHOUGH much like an overdue prophesy but when it finally came, the ouster of Farida Waziri still happened rather suddenly.

IN this piece I will focus on government in Africa. In a subsequent piece I will address the implications of the disquisition on government for governance in Africa.

ON November 17, 2011, President Jonathan inaugurated a 21-member Presidential Committee on the Review of Outstanding Constitutional Issues. Forget our penchant for long-winded, convoluted titles; this is a Constitutional Review Committee! It is an abbreviated Constitutional Conference!

I KNEW Alhaji Modu Sheriff was not fit for exalted public office when I watched him acting up in December 2006. The event was the flag-off of the All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP, presidential campaign at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu. The former Borno State Governor was very central in the campaign activities.

News coming in from the Morocco camp of the Nigerian U-23 camp had it that whenever a foreign based player arrived, there was so much jubilation in camp.

“We agree that the work involved is quite tedious but we will try to make the environment better and stronger. There is a lot of work to do in SEC and NSE and we will contribute our quota to building a world class market that all of us will be proud of”.