Some people now say what is going on in the Niger Delta is NOT war. They say it out, loud and clear. It sent me post haste to the meaning of war as described in the dictionary: “armed fighting between states, countries, or factions.”

By Donu Kogbara VERY few of the people around us have significant impacts on our lives. And I want to pay a brief but heartfelt tribute to my beloved auntie, Chief Mrs Chinyere Asika, who recently celebrated her 70th birthday and is not only one of the most intellectual and accomplished women of her generation […]

By Owei Lakemfa THE on-going disagreements between Israel and its principal backer, the United States seem a trifle. The Palestinians are squeezed mainly into two small settlements;  the Gaza Strip and the West Bank .  Yet Israel continues to nibble parts of the West Bank by building settlements. America’s request delivered by Secretary of State, […]

By Onochie Anibeze It’s been interesting trying to analyse the reactions of Nigerians after the goalless draw with Tunisia on June 20.

Everybody knows it, except obdurate demagogues and partisan ideologues who while praying unabashedly for Obama’s failure forget that the entire enterprise is not really about Obama, not about you or me or anybody for that matter.

One of the questions thrown at him was whether he was about to return to his original political party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as widely rumoured, or had he decided to stay with his adopted party, the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA).

He confessed that Shade was quite familiar with some members of his family since she lives in Kano where his parents are and visits the family house when he goes home. Henry and I are both from Imo state. He told me that they could not decide for him whom to marry and I should keep my mind off it since he is the one to decide.

The new leadership has moved to reduce the government’s role in the economy and to promote private sector investment and competition Oddly enough but not surprisingly, improvement to the country’s economy in recent years have been attributed to this rather than their Apartheid past.

His second qualification is that he served as a commissioner under late Chief Bola Ige in the old Oyo State. But being a graduate was not a prerequisite for that appointment. In fact one of his colleagues in the cabinet, Busari Adelakun “Eruobodo” might not even have completed his primary school education.

I will be serving the readers with answers to technical questions and often scratching deep into the spirit behind the laws that confuse when applied in the matches readers observe. We are also going to use this forum to often x-ray developments in football refereeing from international bodies such as FIFA, CAF and WAFU as well as Nigerian referees’ designations.