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 […]
The Oshiomhole phenomenon (2)
IN the area of governance, the Comrade Governor has raised the bar in all its ramifications. Through creative governance and resourcefulness he has taken the Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, of the state to an all time high. From its previous level of N250 million per month to a hefty N1.3 billion as at August 2011.
Homosexuals or less than Homo sapiens!
AN Omniscient Creator never intended it so. Nothing can be more unnatural. Nothing can be more irksome to nature. Homo sapiens know it is bestial. And only demons could sponsor it; only their apparent viceroys among men (like the David Camerons of this depraved world) could sell it; and only persons who devils have first married themselves to could buy and consume it.
ABSU rape: The mourning after
IT is probably only in Nigeria that five young men would brutally rape a woman, record the vile act on video, circulate it on the internet, and yet go scot free.
The triump of Kashim Shettima
THE election of Alhaji Kashim Shettima as the Governor of Borno state in the last April elections was recently upheld, by virtue of the dismissal of the petition filed by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Alhaji Mohammed Goni, challenging the outcome of the election.
The Oshiomhole phenomenon
WHEN Adams Aliu Oshiomhole burst on to the political arena of Edo State in 2007 a number of people expressed fear that quite a few odds were stacked up against him.
