Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow A couple of weeks back, Rauf Ladipo, the president-general of the Nigeria Football Supporters Club, appeared on Kadaria Ahmed’s Straight Talk programme on Channels TV. Among other things, Ladipo responded to allegations of financial impropriety levelled against the leadership of the Nigeria Football […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow A couple of weeks back, Rauf Ladipo, the president-general of the Nigeria Football Supporters Club, appeared on Kadaria Ahmed’s Straight Talk programme on Channels TV. Among other things, Ladipo responded to allegations of financial impropriety levelled against the leadership of the Nigeria Football […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Trouble seems to follow him around Like it did when he was a child. He doesn’t do it to get noticed, it’s just how he is Those were some of the words Marco Pedretti, a former playmate of Mario Balotelli, used to describe […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow At inception of their careers, which were decades apart, they both were hailed as the best next thing in football, new kids on the block who would take the world by storm in no distant time. So good were they that each of them, Nii Odartey […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow In life, one occasionally learns or hears of the death of someone he knows or has met which, depending on the circumstance, leaves one sad, despondent or indifferent. Although there’s the sense of loss and pain one often feels in the immediate or […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Four years ago in Germany, while covering the FIFA Women’s World Cup, a story suddenly emerged in the media about Eucharia Uche, the then Super Falcons coach. It was about an interview she allegedly granted the New York Times in Austria prior to the tournament in […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Nigeria may have failed to make an impression at the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada, but two members of its contingent at least, succeeded in attracting attention to themselves in the short time they spent in Canada. The interest they generated, however, had little to […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow By Debo Adeniran The forthcoming 2015 general elections have recently been throwing up series of interesting scenario which, by all estimation, marks it the most controversial, most contentious and in fact, the most chaotic in the history of electioneering in this country so […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow By Charles Soludo I read some of the responses to my article, “Buhari vs Jonathan: Beyond the Election”, and I want to thank everyone who has contributed to the debate. I am glad that the debate has finally taken off. I have decided, […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow In recent times, I have, like many Nigerians, found myself having to debate the rift between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. No matter how hard one tries to avoid the subject, it often shoots up in discussions with family […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow On November 16th, the world community will observe the 19th International Day for Tolerance. This day provides an opportunity to highlight the vital contribution of tolerance and acceptance to improving public health. The U.S. government is proud to partner with the people and […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Sometime in 2009, while on a visit to the United States, US, for a journalism programme, I had a discussion with an African American called Mark. As we got talking, I asked whether he had visited Nigeria. He smiled and said no, but […] More
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