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’. […]
Re-engineering the NWFL
By Patrick Omorodion Women’s football in Nigeria from the days of late Simbiat Abiola, Gina Yeseibo, Princess Bola Jegede and Alhaja Ayo Omidiran in the 1990s was seen purely as a recreational activity mostly done to take the girl-child out of the streets. Those were the days when they floated female football clubs like Simbiat […]
History Makers
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.
JOE: Avoid these hawks
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.
Return of football fans
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 […]
Impostors Fall Apart
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 […]
