Football is not for sale
Football is the world’s most popular sport. It belongs to everyone. From dusty neighbourhood pitches to the grandeur of the FIFA World Cup, its appeal has always rested on the belief that sporting merit, not financial engineering, determines its destiny. That is why the reported proposal by FIFA under President Gianni Infantino to create a […]
Service Chiefs at Buhari’s flag-off
WATCHERS of our 19 year-old democracy are getting increasingly worried at the prospects of a free and fair conduct of the 2019 general elections.
As oil price crisis looms again
As at end of November 2018, international oil price had crashed below the 2019 Federal Budget oil price benchmark of $60 per barrel, after about seven weeks of free fall. Oil price had peaked at $86 per barrel early October.
Defusing basic education time-bomb
The National Council on Education, NCE, without pondering the implications of this unwholesome measure, approved it for implementation as from September 2014 amidst protests from Christian and Muslim interest groups
Probe the Metele Boko Haram massacre
FROM Day One, the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency has been a big mystery to most Nigerians. How an otherwise “rag-tag” band of religious outlaws ballooned into one of the most notorious terror machines in the world, claiming the lives of tens of thousands of Nigerians and rendering more than two million people homeless in spite of the gallant efforts of the Nigerian Army and Air Force, is something difficult to fathom.
Death of Offa robber kingpin
NIGERIA is being seriously dogged by unbelievably violent crimes, perhaps as a result of grinding poverty, poor leadership and growing desperation among the citizenry. This year, the Offa bank robbery in April was easily one of the most notably violent crimes on record.
