THE Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) attracted the attention of two respected opinion leaders in sports. One is my senior ‘Malabite’ and seasoned Sports Journalist turned football administrator, Paul Bassey. The other is Lawyer whose passion for Journalism is such that one can also take the liberty to address him as a Sports Journalist, Godwin Dudu-Orumen aka Football Aficionado.

ALHAJI Mohammed Dikko Yusufu Nigeria’s third indigenous Inspector General of Police, former presidential aspirant and a blue blood from Kastina State passed away on Wednesday, April 1 2015 after a protracted illness.

By Omozuwa Osamwonyi To the utmost surprise of doom-watchers around the globe, Nigeria is going through historic moments of national renewal and democratic consolidation. Thankfully, the peaceful outcome of the 2015 Presidential and parliamentary elections does not synchronise with the catastrophic scenarios some know-it-all prophets of doom simulated and popularised. They audaciously fixed Nigeria’s death […]

Congratulations on your victory on the just concluded presidential election in Nigeria. Your victory is a lesson to every Nigerian, that no matter how many times  one has tried hard and yet failed to actualize his or her dreams, that if the person does not quit, does not give up, does not conclude that he or she can never be successful, that if the person remains resolute and committed, success will come. You are a historic and monumental lesson of “Never give up.” 

I HAD written in the past that one of the good things that came out of Goodluck Jonathan’s administration is the absolute freedom for everyone to express him/herself. Now he has gone on to conduct the freest and most credible election this country has ever witnessed at the presidential level. What an irony! A man who never struggled nor sweated for any political office he had occupied, suddenly found himself losing the only one he so desperately worked hard for.