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Roll call without Nigeria, by Patrick Omorodion

As a young Mass Server (or altar boy as they are called these days) at St. Christopher’s Catholic School on Ikot-Ekpene Street, near the famous Mile 1 market in the Diobu area of Port Harcourt, one song I loved so much in my Hymn Book back then was ‘When the roll is called up yonder’.  […]
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On the march again, by Patrick Omorodion

Towards the 1993 general election in Nigeria, one of the candidates in the presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola used the above title as his campaign slogan. Today I use it, not for a political campaign but for the round of 16 football battle the Super Eagles would be going into at the 2025 AFCON in […]

AFCON: On your marks, set…., by Patrick Omorodion

For 29 days beginning from today, all eyes would be focused on Morocco, the new bride of the Confederation of African Football, CAF and Federation of International Football Associations, FIFA, as they host the 30th edition of the African Nations Cup, AFCON. This competition holds every two years and on even number days until 2013 […]

One embarrassment too many, by Patrick Omorodion

The phrase ‘Sword of Democles’ is described as an impending doom, a situation where someone lives under the threat of a sudden, catastrophic event or danger. That is exactly what Nigeria sports is facing now. In exactly forty eight hours from today if nothing is done to clear the doubts of the Athletics Integrity Unit, […]

Knowing when to quit, by Patrick Omorodion

The Bible tells us in Ecclesiastes 3 and verse one that “there is time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” One African proverb says that if one over stays in a latrine, he would begin to see flies of different colours. This means that if you don’t quit from a […]

Like APC like NFF, by Patrick Omorodion

In 2014, some members of the All Progressive Congress, APC then in the opposition came together to hound Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP out of government. Part of their reasons was that President Jonathan was planning to remove fuel subsidy, an action they said would worsen the plight of Nigerians. Ten years […]

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