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 […]
Between Akwa Ibom and AKPF
By UDO IBUOT IT is hardly surprising that the Akwa Ibom Peoples Front (AKPF), as a socio-cultural group, has continued to come under undeserved attacks and criticisms by people who do not seem to understand objectives of the group. While some people accuse the organisation of being a secret cult, others say that its influence […]
Honesty not amnesty
By CHIDIEBE JEREMIAH THE media – both print and electronic – have been awash with stories of Mr. President’s amnesty to the Niger-Delta militants. A good number of people have praised President Yar’Adua for what they called a laudable initiative. This set of individuals will quickly tell whoever cares to listen that what the government […]
Wake-up call for all deprived people of the Niger Delta
By SMART EGBULE I WANT to salute your courage for publishing the communique which I recognize as the “Home Truthâ€, at the Chapperton Accord. Incontrovertible facts of apartheid syndrome have glaringly been the bitter pill prevalent and being force-fed on South-South people whether at home or in government service away from home. Is it not […]
Re: Go, Etiaba, go
By Dozie Iweka DAME Comfort Obi is one journalist that I admire and was therefore most disillusioned by her opinion on the above subject in Vanguard Oped page. By her own admission, she has a lot of respect and admiration for Her Excellency Dame Virgy Etiaba, the esteemed Deputy Governor of Anambra State. This is […]
Go, Etiaba go!
By Comfort Obi I HAD willed myself not to write on this topic because I have a lot of respect for Her Excellency, Dame Virgy Etiaba, the Deputy Governor of Anambra State. Like me, she is of the Anglican Communion. And more, she is my sister-Knight. I have, therefore, unlike me, had some restrictions. I […]
