NFF: Need for a new beginning
Nigeria’s absence from the 2026 World Cup is not fate. It is the bill finally arriving for years of reckless housekeeping at the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), and those responsible must be made to pay for it. Our football history shows that Nigeria rarely loses to better teams. It loses to itself. Rabat, en route […]
Challenging INEC’s 2015 Schedule
THE surprise would have been if Nigerians did not debate the time table the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, released for the 2015 elections. We are in an era of mounting oppositions against anything that points to any semblance of orderliness, it is called the new politics.
We Pay Losing Bonus
NIGERIANS are too happy over the performance of the home-based Eagles at the just concluded CHAN contest in South Africa that they did not notice one of its blights – Nigeria paid bonus to the Eagles for losing to Ghana.
National Conference Versus Generator Mentality
THERE is very little left for any section of Nigeria to demand in Nigeria. If a section gets whatever it wants out of Nigeria, it would be a myopic gain that would leave that part unfulfilled.
Killing A Dog To Kill A Policeman
THESE days Nigerians fight over anything. A disputed bus fare, a misunderstood word at a community gathering or the better known incidents of cult rivalries or the more celebrated cases of land disputes are reasons for Nigerians to go at each other.
Corruption Becomes Election Issue
IN Malawi, hundreds defied the rains on Wednesday to hear corruption charges against a senior civil servant and two construction executives, the principal suspects in a case in which 68 state employees and executives are being accused of stealing more than $20 million (N1.2bn) of public funds.
