Editorial

Nigeria’s senior women national team, the Super Falcons, were in devastating form as they defeated an Iceland team, UMF Selfoss, 6-1 in a friendly game. Striker Courtney Dike, within 19 minutes, recorded a hat trick, […]

FOOTBALL, often described as the “beautiful game,” is fast losing its allure to racism. From Italy to the United Kingdom, Montenegro to Serbia and Germany to France, football is under siege from a new wave […]

The Nigerian condition in terms of the depreciating living conditions of the people is common knowledge. Significantly, Nigeria is currently ranked 157th out of 189 countries on the human development index (HDI). Not long ago, […]

After a decade-long hiatus, Tiger Woods is back in the upper echelons of golf. In dramatic circumstances, Woods, 43, claimed the 2019 Masters at Augusta in the United States by one stroke on Sunday ahead […]

This year’s Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration a couple of months ago triggered discussions of sad memories of our tortuous journey through military incursion into politics, which consequences were also felt in the just concluded […]

It was the world-acclaimed Nigerian novelist, Chinua Achebe, who, exasperated with his country’s leaders, succinctly captured the leadership crisis plaguing the Nigerian state in these haunting words: ‘the trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely […]

A suggestion that the performance of the 91 political parties in the country would be reviewed and decision taken on their future after the conclusion of all election matters by the Independent National Electoral Commission […]

ANOTHER misadventure in the bid to repair the country’s ailing refineries has taken off with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s award of a $50 million contract to an Italian firm – Maire Tecnimont – to […]

A recent bandying of mere figures by authorities in Abuja to the extent that they needed a whopping $1 trillion dollars worth of investment to modernise energy infrastructure in the country cannot impress anyone, after […]

It is five years today since Nigeria slipped into infamy: five years since the remote town of Chibok in Borno State, powered tragically into global spotlight. It was the day Nigeria’s former president, the military, […]

THE way Nigerians from all walks of life have responded to the reported illness of a former Captain of Nigeria’s national football team, the Green Eagles (now Super Eagles), Mr. Christian Chukwu (popularly called “The […]

THE Federal and Osun State governments must quickly rally the law enforcement agencies to respond to the distress call of the management of the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile Ife, over the alleged “criminal poisoning” […]

A recent report that the President had rejected a strange bill containing special fund to complete a notorious money gulper called Ajaokuta Steel project should not be twisted as a bad idea. It is good […]

As the world continues to witness significant progress in the United Nations campaign for the global eradication of tuberculosis by 2030, Nigeria remains a miserable straggler among her peers, with little or no hope of […]

NOTORIOUS for extortion, illegal detention, the use of excessive force, human rights abuse and extra-judicial killings, the Nigeria Police Force is a den of villainy. Its callous officers shot dead a football fan in Mangoro, […]

Indication that the Ninth Assembly is going to tread the same wobbly merry-go-round of its earlier versions became apparent recently when banters began to fly over the leadership of the National Assembly, on the first […]

As President Muhammadu Buhari embarks upon the task of appointing a new cabinet for his last lap in the exalted office of president of Nigeria which commences on May 29, 2019, it becomes apposite, even […]

As President Muhammadu Buhari embarks upon the task of appointing a new cabinet for his last lap in the exalted office of president of Nigeria which commences on May 29, 2019, it becomes apposite, even […]