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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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Reflections on reactions

Reflections on reactions

And I’ve also been criticized by a handful of individuals (friends as well as foes), who either disagreed with some or all of the points I made or simply felt that my article was too divisive…and that I should have urged my fellow Ogonis to forget about the bitter mistakes of the past, instead of highlighting internal rifts.

The difference between Togo, Nigeria

The difference between Togo, Nigeria

It is a universal knowledge that law enforcement agents in many cases torture or put pressure on people to confess to alleged crimes they know nothing about. There are also possible human errors in convicting people.

Lessons from Confederation cup

Lessons from Confederation cup

Fans will never forget the skills displayed by the Brazilian teams to the Espana ‘82 and Mexico ‘86 World Cups. But they all lost to faster European sides. So, why are we trying to copy what the masters of the game have dropped?

Michael Joseph Jackson…end of the world

Michael Joseph Jackson…end of the world

“Before Barack Obama in Politics , Oprah Winfrey in the Media, Tiger Woods in Sports, Michael was the first to break the color lines. While Muhammad Ali confronted the system, Michael was silent in his own struggle and in the end brought the world together.’’

Safe sex: who is responsible (2)

Safe sex: who is responsible (2)

The question is: would the church offer treatment or care in any form to the couple if the test comes out positive? or would the church ask for other STI’s other than HIV as a measure to protect the proposed bride from a wayward husband?

Nigerians just want fuel

Nigerians just want fuel

In an almost desperate bid to privatise all things privatisable and even those not privatisable, the Obasanjo administration’s advisers on privatisation and oil matters had come up with this very gullible theory of how selling licences for private refineries to be built will solve the twin problems of pricing and supply forever.

Re: At kidnappers’ mercy

Re: At kidnappers’ mercy

This Medical Doctor was ambushed right inside his private hospital in the city centre, in broad daylight on Thursday June 25. And for over 24 agonising and nerve-wracking hours, the family had no idea where and under what conditions their breadwinner was being kept.

Varsities: Dialogue as casualty

Varsities: Dialogue as casualty

The Federal Ministry of Education in an invitation sent by Mrs. A.E. Aiyedun of the Department of Tertiary Education told ASUU: “At the instance of the Honourable Minister of Education, I am directed to inform you of the signing of the agreement arising from the FGN/University based Unions (negotiations)…”.

Safe sex: who is responsible

Safe sex: who is responsible

Wherever and whenever a woman is not satisfied or could not climax, both of them – the woman and the man concerned should share the blame. I believe it is a woman’s God given right to enjoy sex (in which her body participates). But who would she blame if she inhibits herself? It is the woman most of the time that holds the key to her orgasm and not the man.

God of His business and traders in God

God of His business and traders in God

“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light (verse 3) And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so (verses 6-7)