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There is a saying in our local parlance that ‘if one man own no spoil, another man own no go better’.? This means that “One man’s loss is another man’s gain.” In 2015, then president of FIFA, Joseph Sepp Blatter was in his fifth term as president of football’s world body when he ran into […]
The post Whose time is it? By Patrick Omorodion appeared first on Vanguard News.
We read Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’ when we were in school, about King Odysseus of Ithaca who joined other Kings in the Trojan war. It took King Odysseus ten long years to make it back home to Ithaca. We remember the captivating, epic story of love, honour, betrayal, loyalty and redemption. The adventures of King Odysseus […]
The post A black face and a thousand ships, by Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi appeared first on Vanguard News.
On March 22, 1998, I was officially decorated with the honour and title of ‘Sports Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria’ in Abuja by the then Minister of Sports. It was in addition to a previous national honour of ‘Member of the Order of the Niger’, MON. I take both honours very seriously. They […]
The post An appeal to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and all Nigerians: Stop the NFF elections, please! By Segun Odegbami appeared first on Vanguard News.
President Bola Tinubu’s extraordinary intervention in the freezing of an Osun State Government account by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has brought into sharp relief a question that has increasingly shadowed his presidency: who exactly acts in the President’s name, and how much of what is done around him carries his prior knowledge and approval? […]
The post Can Tinubu dvice Governors On What He Controls? By Emmanuel Aziken appeared first on Vanguard News.
All Igbobians – students of Igbobi College – must know about the big fruit tree between the Dining Hall and the Chapel. This tree has been there like forever serving as a rendezvous of sorts for many school events. I believe it is one of the fixtures that can tell the story of the school. Some […]
The post Making your roots proud of you, by Muyiwa Adetiba appeared first on Vanguard News.
Last week, I complained about the arrogance displayed by Dave Umahi, the Minister of Works, who has a lot of questions to answer around the mysterious death in his compound of an attractive young female nurse. This week, I will focus on another example of APC arrogance. Following a visit to the presidential villa by the […]
The post More appalling APC arrogance! By Donu Kogbara appeared first on Vanguard News.
“Salus populi suprema lex esto” (“The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law”), Roman maxim The first part of this series reflected upon the life, character and formative influences that shaped Senator (Dr.) Abdullahi Adamu, CON, Turakin Keffi, into one of the foremost public figures of his generation. It suggested that the enduring measure […]
The post Senator Abdullahi Adamu at 80: A life of service, wisdom and grace (2), by Usman Sarki appeared first on Vanguard News.
This is one question that has refused to take leave of me at the moment, and the answers don’t look as simple as the question. The reason is that technology grows so fast, sometimes more than the speed of light, hyperbolically, that we are either left behind or simply fail to notice the failings in a […]
The post Where is 5G now? By Okoh Aihe appeared first on Vanguard News.
The storm that has followed the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria’s visit to President Bola Tinubu would certainly not have occurred had the Archbishop Emeritus of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, not taken to the airwaves in the form of a television interview he granted Arise News Prime Time anchor Charles Aniagolu to not only speak about […]
The post John Cardinal Onaiyekan spoke a bit too much, by Rotimi Fasan appeared first on Vanguard News.
Every election season in Nigeria revives a familiar hope: that the right leader, armed with courage, competence, and character, can rescue the country from its accumulated failures. Leadership matters. Yet Nigeria’s history offers a sobering lesson: no leader can sustainably outperform the institutions through which he or she governs. Good leaders operating within weak systems often […]
The post Beyond the ballot: Why Nigeria must reform its institutions, by Dakuku Peterside appeared first on Vanguard News.