Infantino’s wager: Reforming football, risking legacy
By ANTHONY KILA Every significant reform begins with a wager. Some leaders wager that technology will solve yesterday’s problems. Others wager that money can accelerate tomorrow’s possibilities. Some gamble on persuasion; others on popularity. The most ambitious wager, however, is the belief that an institution can be fundamentally changed without changing what it is. Gianni […]
NASS anti-devolution vote: North, Biafra, and the rest of us
The North will never allow for a restructured Nigeria UNLESS she is confronted with an alternative
Lagos House of gamble
The time for Nigerians to take their country back is now
Acting against reason: EDHA and its abandoned anti-grazing bill
THE Edo State House of Assembly recently did a volte face on the Anti-Grazing Bill sponsored by a member of the House representing Ovia North East II Constituency, Hon. Bright Osayande. After subjecting it to a heated public debate, the leadership of the House seemed to have developed cold feet about a bill they had been most enthusiastic. They threw it out completely without trying to make amendments based on suggestions at the public hearing.
Killing Nigerians softly with soft drinks
I BOUGHT two products of the Coca Cola conglomerate three days ago. They are bottles of Fanta and Sprite. I looked for a warning on them which should read that the drinks are poisonous when taken with Vitamin C.
Omo-Agege: Re-defining constituency empowerment
Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, representing Delta Central Senatorial district at the National Assembly is inevitably turning out to be news-maker in every sense as it concerns the Urhobo nation and its people. While the Urhobo were yet reveling in his outstanding, purposeful and energetic representation of their national effort at the red chambers of the National Assembly, he has yet embarked on constituency empowerment programme that has never been seen or heard of in Urhobo political history.
