Tribute to an in-law, and a caring mother By Paul Ejime* It is common place to hear complaints about mothers-in-laws, even among young mothers, who aspire to become mothers-in-law themselves. In fact, there is a story about a man, whose relationship with the mother-in-law was so bad. The family had gone on a holiday to […]
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HAVING been born, grown up and lived in many parts of our dear country, Nigeria, and having been properly educated in the country as well as in many other parts of the world where one also lived in, significantly, one frequently wonders why God allowed a place such as Nigeria to exist at all on […]
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Sierra Leone: Can the “Lion Mountain” Ever Roar Again? * By Paul Ejime After the recent fiercely contested presidential election in Liberia, world attention has turned to neighbouring Sierra Leone, which has its own crucial vote on 7th of March 2018. Both countries share so much in common, not just political histories, but devastations of symbiotic […]
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The exit of a Booster — a tribute By Fan Ndubuoke I can’t really remember how our paths crossed. Possibly at the National Stadium, Suru lere, Lagos. In the late eighties, I left the Imo Broadcasting Service (IBS), Owerri to join the Champion Newspapers, Lagos as a pioneer staff on the sports beat. Austin Mgbolu […]
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Weah Presidency: The Challenge of High Expectations in Liberia *By Paul Ejime Apart from not playing in the World Cup finals, the dream of every football player, George Manneh Oppong Weah, has won virtually all there is to wining world football. In a career that spanned almost two decades, across six countries in three continents […]
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It matters how you get there By Paul Ejime This title is among the several Point of Sale (POS display) messages that welcome users to the very busy Miami International Airport (MIA) in Florida, the “Sunshine State’’ of the United States. As expected Florida, Spanish for the “land of flowers’’ boasts a multicultural inheritance including […]
Continue ReadingTribute to General Victor Malu: Nigeria’s ECOMOG Hero By Paul Ejime* Even before the United States assembled the 30-nation “Allied Forces’’ against Iraq during the first Gulf war in 1991, with all the attendant controversies and uncertainties, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) had demonstrated an international best practice in regional peace keeping […]
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FG prepares information officers to tackle fake news The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says the Ministry has strengthened the capacity of its Information Officers to tackle the menace of fake news with fact-based counter-narrative. The Minister stated this in Abuja on Wednesday in his keynote address at a capacity building Workshop […]
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Concordant tones on restructuring: The North and The Rest of Us By Obidimike Afiamini** The agitation for restructuring now cut across ethnic and political zones’ boundaries. Elder statesmen, former military leaders and even religious leaders have also joined the clamour for the restructuring of the country — devolution of powers. Among the pack who favour […]
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Carl Ikeme’s leukaemia, a sad tale for Nigeria’s Super Eagles By Tony Nezianya When news hit the airwaves that Nigeria’s current number one goalkeeper has been diagnosed of acute leukaemia, members of Nigeria’s sporting fraternity were thrown into shock and pannick. Certainly the news is not a cheery one, given the upcoming matches for the […]
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