NATIONS, diplomacy, and sports are interwoven. Sports persons and sports teams are, in a sense, representatives of and mirrors of their countries. It is no coincidence that most great nations are also leading sporting countries because it is a significant tool of soft power projection. Nations demonstrate their might either through ‘fight’ or ‘play’. The latter […]

From last week, continues the narrative of how the Obasanjo regime responded to a strike action organised by the NLC over fuel subsidy by inuagurating a committee in 2000 made up of eminent Nigerians to resolve the issue   THE committee was headed by my friend, Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi, while the secretary of the committee was Chief […]

How many times have you heard a government official, perhaps the State Governor, announce that a Skills Acquisition Centre established by the State had graduated several people and had empowered them

TWO occurrences in the past week made me reach the conclusion that either the government is baiting the labour unions or there are quite active fifth columnists in the Tinubu administration. The first is the laughable ban of the trade unions from politics, including working within the Labour Party, LP, which was established in 2002, that […]

The fact that I have to write this, makes me retch. It turns my stomach because this is the 21st century, and there are still many among us who still think in this brutally savage way about other people, who they have to dehumanize in order to feel alive themselves. That I have to defend […]

Reports that the Oyo State government has just created an agency for the enforcement of the rule of law sounded strange to me because I could not appreciate how a subnational entity can successfully implement an assignment that is essentially federal. Although I am aware that some states often maintained federal roads in their states […]

Brethren, we are gradually forward in the month of a New Beginning.  You need to ask yourself, is a new beginning possible for me? If the answer is yes, the next question is in which area of life do I need a new beginning? For some,  it could be motherhood, for others, it could be […]

“Men make history, but, not just as they please.” Karl Marx, 1818-1883, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p93 President Bola Tinubu has made history, but, today, it is not the history for which he would want to be remembered. Unfortunately for him, because journalism is the first rough draft of history, nothing recorded today will […]

‘Nigeria must invest more in institutionalised sports development. Winning a medal at the Olympics is a Marathon race, not a sprints event’

By GOJI EGBUJO Another lousy precedent has been casually constructed. Someday, we will have no teeth against a naked dictator. Many good but shortsighted people enable intolerance and ineptitude through ignorance or cowardice. Soon, we will be clapping fawningly like North Koreans when our leaders approach. This must be how that Rome of mass subservience […]

Another lousy precedent has been casually constructed. Someday, we will have no teeth against a naked dictator. Many good but shortsighted people enable intolerance and ineptitude through ignorance or cowardice. Soon, we will be clapping fawningly like North Koreans when our leaders approach. This must be how that Rome of mass subservience was built.  Some bishops run […]

As Nigerians ponder over the lessons of the recent protest against bad governance and hunger in the land, it is becoming clear that those who ordinarily should reset the course of governance in the country have not drawn any lesson from the uprising against the status quo. That much was espoused in President Bola Tinubu’s […]

It was not a pretty sight. A facility specifically meant for youths was being destroyed before our eyes by the same youths in Kano. Computers were carted away by youths who probably don’t know how to use a computer – they probably have never even touched one before. Swivel chairs were carried by those who […]

Gradually, we are approaching the end of the Civil War, fifty four long years after General Philip Effiong took the bold step of formally surrendering and renouncing Biafra before his erstwhile junior, General Yakubu Gowon at Dodan Barracks. The signing into law of the South – East Development Commission (SEDC) bill by President Bola Tinubu is a […]

I agree with the slogans: #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria and #End Hunger, but I also know that some of the sponsors and participants had ulterior motives which I am against. There is definitely increased hunger and hardship in the land. These were worsened by the way the federal government went about the floating of the naira and issues […]