In the final against Aryna Sabalenka, as predicted by tennis buffs, the Belarusian wrapped up the first set, winning 6-2. As if that was the tonic the American teenager needed, she returned strong with a 6-3, 6-2 victory in the following two sets, to everyone’s surprise and delight. She then thanked those who never believed in her for “adding gas” to her fire.

When former President Buhari appointed Dare, rather than settle down to study the situation on ground, the civil servants packaged a foreign trip for him to Morocco to “support” Team Nigeria at the All Africa Games. Once he fell for that bait, I knew he was not going to be able to control the excesses of the ministry’s sacred cows.

By Patrick Omorodion The Bible tells us in Colossians chapter 3 and verse 23 that “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart”. It was talking about diligence which the dictionary describes as “constant in effort to accomplish something; attentive and persistent in doing anything”. This is exactly what one man, Jenkins Alumona […]

By Patrick Omorodion I was not a literature student in my school days and so never seriously read any of Professor Chinua Achebe’s novels. However, his award winning novel ‘Things Fall Apart’ made a lot of sense to me. Another book of his which is relevant in my piece for today is ‘No Longer At […]

When you have a brainwave, that is suddenly an idea floods your mind and you have faith that you can achieve it and work hard at it, you will surely achieve the dream resulting from that brainwave. I believe that is exactly what happened to Kunle Soname, the proprietor of the youngest football club in […]