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 that he didn’t look forward to visiting. “Why?” I asked. With a…
The Olomo in Us All!
This week, precisely Monday October 20, marks the first anniversary of the sad disappearance of James Bolarinwa Olomo, professor of Nuclear Physics and lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife. Since Saturday October 26, 2013, when the family delegation reported the matter at the police station in Eket, Akwa Ibom State, it has been…
Nigerian Football: Throwing Stones From The Glass House
NIGERIAN FOOTBALL: THROWING STONES FROM THE GLASS HOUSE By Adegbenro Adebanjo The war in Nigerian House of Football is coming at the wrong time. At a time the only thing, possibly, going for the country is football, the managers of the game have chosen to engage in an internecine war that can only put the…