World renowned Afrobeat king, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti sang a song ‘When cat sleep, rat go bite him tail, wetin he dey find?’. Trouble, or confusion, or abuses, if you like. Fela called it ‘palava’. This is exactly what our Delta-born Debonair football administrator, Melvin Amaju Pinnick, who is always proud to call himself ‘Warri boy’ has […]

The great Jamaican reggae crooner, Robert Nesta Marley, aka Bob Marley in the lyrics of his song, ‘Who The Cap Fit’, has a line thus: ‘Who Jah Bless, No One Curse”. The song must have been inspired by his reading of the book of Numbers in the Holy Bible. And it actually addresses hypocrisy and […]

There is an adage which says once bitten twice shy. That was what Morocco thought to itself after they lost the 2010 World Cup hosting right to South Africa. Former FIFA president, Sepp Blatter wanted to compensate Africa for the support the continent gave him all the years his mandate as head of the world […]

One thing I took out of the 2025 African Nations Cup, AFCON which ended in Morocco last Sunday was not the organizational ability of the host which was commended by Europeans who hardly see anything good coming out of Africa. It wasn’t even the standard of football displayed by all the teams which one of […]

In 1977 during the first tenure of Olusegun Obasanjo as a military Head of State, the government had issues with Fela Anikulapo-Kuti over his caustic criticisms of the regime. One fateful day, February 18, 1977, a senior military officer ordered about a thousand soldiers to invade Fela’s home he named Kalakuta Republic. They beat up […]