WHEN Joseph Michael Yobo, former Captain of Nigeria’s senior national football team, the Super Eagles, was appointed Assistant Coach of the team, opinions were divided in football circles.  Those who applauded the appointment pointed to his rich resume which included the rare accolade of being capped 101 times as he represented the Super Eagles at […]

FOR the people of Bauchi State, Sunday, June 27, 2021 was a historic day. For the first time in years, the people of that part of the country who have lived in dread of Boko Haram terrorism and the rash of highway kidnappings came out in their overflowing thousands to watch vintage football exhibitions at […]

FOR the second time in 20 years, the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, has been passed by the National Assembly, NASS. In 2018, it was passed as the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, PIG-B, but President Muhammadu Buhari refused it assent, citing alleged constitutional issues. Political and sectional interests have been the major reasons for the long […]

On Tuesday, June 28, 2021, the Nigerian security setup achieved a major coup which served the notice that in spite of everything, it still knows its onions. Though the details have not been officially made public, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, was nabbed in a foreign country, […]

Last week, President Mohammadu Buhari approved the allocation of three-bedroom houses to each member of the 1994 national  football  team, the Super Eagles,  and their officials, dead or alive. The President’s gesture was in fulfillment of a 27-year-old promise the federal  military  government  under the late General Sani Abacha made to members of the squad […]