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Inside Gusau’s ‘rotten’ NFF, by Patrick Omorodion

Inside Gusau’s ‘rotten’ NFF, by Patrick Omorodion

There is no story trending in Nigeria’s sports circle today that interests Nigerian football fans as the call on the leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF to either resign or not to bother to seek to return in the next election. Mainstream and social media platforms are buzzing with stories on what has happened […]
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God is a servant of men

God is a servant of men

On 21st April, 2013, Douglas Anele wrote an article in Vanguard newspaper entitled: “Femi Aribisala and his Errand-Boy God” in response to my earlier article: “The God who Does Not Exist.”  In my article, I detailed many astonishing things the God Douglas says does not exist did for me.  Douglas’ position was that the God who would do all such things would amount to no more than my errand-boy

The difference between running the country and running the country down(2)

The difference between running the country and running the country down(2)

As David-West observed, shame is an important human emotion that enables normal human beings “to recoil from evil and bad behaviour, and so tread the path of rectitude and honour.” Shamelessness immunises one psychologically from the pain of evil conduct: the mental disposition allows so-called eminent Nigerians to “wine and dine” with former dictators who almost ran the country aground.

A time will come….?

A time will come….?

Can someone tell me the direction in which Nigeria is heading as am beginning to lose my orientation. In the last couple of weeks there have been so much going on and none of them any way to move towards the future

Is APC the answer? — 2

Is APC the answer? — 2

SUNDAY PUNCH of August 11, 2013, on pages 70 and 71 provided the names and pictures of people it called “Opposition Power brokers: The Strongmen of APC”. It reads to me like pictures of WANTED men at a Police Station. For a start, the list had no single woman – that tells us a lot about the gender discrimination in the new political organization. It is doubtful if this new “progressive” political contraption is what will take us to the promised land.