Super Falcons’ flop: Time to rebuild our football
The Super Falcons’ quarter-final exit from the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco is more than another painful sporting disappointment. It should be the moment Nigeria finally confronts the deep weaknesses in its football system and begin the difficult task of rebuilding. Nigeria’s 1-0 defeat by Cameroon ended the Falcons’ defence of their […]
National Sports Festival: Beyond the medals
AT last, the 20th edition of the National Sports Festival, NSF, tagged Edo 2020 is coasting home. It is a biennial multi-sports event organised by the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development. Athletes from the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory are attending what is commonly referred to as the […]
Cybercrime needs holistic solutions
ON May 22, 2019, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, arrested a young proprietor of an alleged internet fraud training school located at 14, Animashaun Street, Progressive Estate, Ojodu Berger, Lagos alongside eight students, while receiving “lectures”. Again, in June, 2020, the media reported the arrest by Interpol and FBI of a Nigerian Dubai-based […]
Saving up on emerging oil windfall
EXPERTS and other concerned Nigerians have been raising their voices of advice to the Federal Government to immediately take steps to save on the emerging boom in crude oil sales. This call is well placed because for some time now, there has been a steady rise in the price of crude above our budget benchmark. […]
Need for a total war on terror
GOING by indications, it would seem that the Federal Government has finally risen to its patriotic obligation to root out the people funnelling illicit funds to the various terror networks undermining the security of Nigerians. This is the 12th year since Boko Haram spun out of control in Borno State after its leader, Mohammed Yusuf, […]
Twitter avoids Nigeria, goes to Ghana! [Editorial]
THE recent announcement by Jack Dorsey, the CEO of tech giant Twitter, that it will hire its first crop of staff on the African continent in Ghana has, expectedly, set the social media and concerned Nigerians abuzz and melancholic. We have lost yet another opportunity to show that our country still matters in the considerations […]
