By Ernest Osogbue On the morning of 15th January 1966, a monumental event that would reshape and reconfigure the trajectory of a nation beyond a coup took place in Nigeria. Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeog...
By Ernest Osogbue Many years ago, when I was still a music presenter on the radio, a friend of mine, by name Sadiq, produced a song titled “Naija na comedy.” In the song, he narrated some ...
By Ernest Osogbue The Super Eagles team B, the CHAN Eagles or home based Eagles as the case may be, recently crashed out of the African Nations Championship, following a 4-0 bashing by Sudan. The team...
By Ernest Osogbue It’s as if the Sportswriters Association of Nigeria SWAN, an association of sports journalists in Nigeria, which seemingly have been slumbering, have finally woken up. In a pre...
By Ernest Osogbue In a surprising twist, FIBA hall of famer and Nigeria’s biggest basketball export, Hakeem Olajuwon, has thrown his support behind his two sons, Abdullah and Abdulrahman’s...
For Diogo Jota. By Ernest Osogbue The sudden sad passing of Liverpool forward Diogo Jota has triggered a wave of reflections on my mind. As I began to wonder about life and what success and failure re...
By Ernest Osogbue It has become imperative for us as a people to sit down and consider the myriad of problems confronting our nation and start looking at new ways of solving them. According to an anal...
Ernest Osogbue I’m constrained by feedback received from my earlier piece of this same title to do a follow-up. Some who read the story were of the view that I shielded political leaders from re...
By Ernest Osogbue This piece is inspired by, and by extension, a response to Jide Ojo’s column in Punch Newspapers edition of Wednesday 18th June 2025. Jide’s piece titled ‘Nigerians...
By Olakunle Osisanya, fdc. At a security conference organized by the National Assembly on Tuesday, 3rd June, 2025, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa, made a presentation which...