Today marks Nigeria’s golden jubilee. This means our Nation has existed independently for the whole of 50 years. Yes! Fifty long years of walking, stumbling and then back to crawling. Amazing fifty years of wasted opportunities and resources. The fact that we are still standing as a united Nation despite all the unfortunate realities of [...]

A couple of weeks back, I wrote on our upcoming match against the Mozambicans and I titled it ‘No Excuse’. I made reference to the point that the players have a big role to play in deciding whether Nigeria will be at SA 2010 or not. I specifically appealed to their sense of patriotism and [...]

The adage that ‘whatever goes up must come down’ is a very popular one. When a plane takes off, it usually lands again. Sudden landing may be termed as a crash (which may be fatal or not) or aborted flight.   A comet is a small solar system body that orbits the sun and, when [...]

What is it about this game that makes it so engrossing (Barcelona Vs Real Madrid –El Classico: all the years past), time consuming (Chelsea Vs Man U-UEFA Champions League final 2008), emotion drenching (Getafe Vs Bayern Munchen –UEFA Cup Quarter final 2008), hypertension inducing (Nigeria Vs Cameroun- Nations Cup final 2000), death occurring (Columbia Vs [...]