BAT 2023

Having been found guilty of biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini in Tuesday’s World Cup clash in Natal Uruguay’s striker Luis Suarez has on Thursday been banned from all soccer-related activity for four months. He was also been banned from nine international matches and he is required to pay a fine of 82,000 euros. The ban […]Read More

Not even the most politically naïve Nigerian can fail to appreciate that the recent governorship election in Ekiti State is a forerunner to the 2015 presidential elections.  The two major candidates in Ekiti, incumbent Governor John Kayode Fayemi and Governor-elect Ayodele Fayose, represent the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) respectively. […]

If you are talking about results from a population of 2.3million. With over 1.6 million eligible voters and 700 thousand plus registered voters from which meager figures of 100, 200 and 40 thousand, totaling just about half of registered voters voted, as victories and loses, then you can have a field day celebrating or crying. […]

Peter Ayodele Fayose, the Governor-Elect of Ekiti State, is an enigma in Nigerian politics.  Nobody seems to understand his style and strategies.  Until the declaration of the results of the governorship election of June 21st, 2014, which proclaimed him as winner, by a large margin, it was confusing whether, indeed, this ebullient politician was truly […]

  The “Safe Schools Initiative” (SSI) is a brainchild of Gordon Brown, former UK Prime Minister who now serves as United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education. The SSI was earlier launched at the World Economic Forum Africa in April/May this year in Abuja, in response to the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls from […]

With today’s election, Ekiti State has become the epicenter of Nigerian electoral politics. Here, the major political fault lines converge into a great foreshadowing. Fateful questions not only about Ekiti but about the course of our nation and its uncertain democracy will be asked and may be answered this day. If this is how history […]

A word is good for the wise, a touch is good for an antelope and a repeated shouting coupled with a big stick appears not enough for self imposed ‘sports administrators’ in Nigeria. Readers should note that those so-called administrators are really clueless about sports or management because they were appointed to such roles based […]

As part of the efforts to combat the aftermath of the abduction of he more than 200 girls from Chbok Borno State about two months ago, celebrities in the intenational community have come together to create a parallel to the global Bring Back Our Girls campaign naming it Let Girls Learn in an attempt to […]

Multiple award winning Nigerian gospel singer, Kefee Don Momoh, is dead. Kefee, went into coma on a 14-hour flight to Chicago, USA on her way to attend an event weeks ago, forcing the plane to land in Los Angeles so she could urgently get medical attention. According to sources close to her, Kefee died early […]

At the turn of this century when the death toll on the world’s roads hit 3400 per day and nearly 1.3 million with up to 50 million injured every year, the United Nations General Assembly on May 10, 2010 proclaimed the period 2011-2020 as the Decade of Action for Road Safetywith a goal to stabilise […]

The Minister of Sports Dr. Tammy Danagogo has waded into the brewing crisis between the Super Eagles and the leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) over the world football governing body’s $8 million allocation to the federation. The players had protested to the NFF Chairman Alhaji Aminu Maigari, in the United States (US) demanding […]

The Federal Government’s delegation to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil is expected to arrive at Sao-Paulo, Brazil for the opening ceremony of the tournament billed for 12th June. Headed by Senate President David Mark, the Delegation is expected to arrive at the Guarulhos International Airport, Sao Paulo, Brazil, at about 5pm local time on […]