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 […]
Rig Election, Go To Jail
ON each of the occasions he has had an opportunity to make important speeches and pronouncements since he emerged as the nation’s chief helmsman, President Goodluck Jonathan has harped on his desire to ensure that the general elections of 2011 conform to universal best practices. He has made more pledges on this issue than on any other, which implies that free, fair and acceptable elections in 2011 is his major priority.
Glo’s threat to quit Ghana
Nigeria’s second national telecommunications carrier, Globacom, has declared its preparation to pull out of Ghana as a result of frustrations and sabotage of every effort it has made to provide nationwide coverage of the country.
Eleven years of renascent democracy
MAY 29th 2010 marks eleven years of unbroken democratic method of governance in Nigeria. It is the longest period, since our independence, when Nigeria was able to go without the intervention of the military in its political affairs.
Children’s Day 2010: what now?
Since the world’s tiniest country – The Vatican – pioneered the celebration of Children’s Day, it soon assumed a worldwide dimension when the first International Children’s Day was held in Turkey on April 23rd 1920 in Turkey . The first Children’s Day organised by the International Union for Child Welfare was held in Geneva in 1955. From the 1970’s, it was adopted as an annual ritual in Nigeria .
Eleven years of renascent democracy
May 29th 2010 marks eleven years of unbroken democratic method of governance in Nigeria . It is the longest period, since our independence, when Nigeria was able to go without the intervention of the military in its political affairs.
