Nigerian football at the crossroads: Reforming or recycling?
By FAN Ndubuoke “The greatest danger confronting Nigerian football at this moment is not that the reform might fail. It is that we may call something reform while preserving the very people, structures and interests that created the failure in the first place.” President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s directive ordering a comprehensive reform of Nigerian football […]
Private jets, the Church and Nigerians
Recently, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, claimed to know the source of the plane owned by the President of Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor. It is now running into weeks and he is yet to tell how the Pastor got his plane.The annoyed Pastor has threatened to sue.
Awoonor: A library destroyed by familiar fire
”Every old person who dies in Africa is like a library destroyed by fire”. An assertion by Ahmadou Hampate Ba that is beginning to make an inroad into our subconscious in the form of a clearer meaning. It was, and has always been a festival of ‘oneness’.
Cocking a gun on a General
Of the four elected Presidents Nigeria has had till date, none has been impeached.
As 3rd session of DTHA’s 5th Assembly begins
Whenever we take a cursory look at democracy, we hardly fail to see the visionary import of the philosophy and precept of liberal democracy which makes it tower above other models because of self-evident advantages.
That Nigeria’s quest for membership of UNSC
At 53 Nigeria has faced some challenges of nationhood, similar to what other great nations had or have faced. While one is concerned by the recurring disturbing and negative trends that dampen the spirit of writing positively about the country, Nigeria’s greatness is in its abundant human and material resources.
