When Karl Marx stated many years ago that “Religion is the opium of the people”, he didn’t know that people will rephrase it in later years It has been recoined today to state that football is the opium of the masses. That football can people temporarily forget their sufferings caused by bad governance, especially in […]

The Bible tells us in Proverbs 22:6 that when parents train up their children in the way they should go, when they are old they will not depart from it. One thing that is very clear is that only the Creator knows the end from the beginning. No parent knows how his kid would end. […]

Since I heard from Bishop David Oyedepo that the Holy Bible is God’s constitution for the good living of man, I have always consulted it in writing this Column. That is why today I have checked again what it says about living for others, a virtue that my namesake and man of many parts, Chief […]

He turned up just before the team left for Amsterdam for the scheduled friendly match against the Netherlands. Rufai’s match rustiness and the fact that some defenders were also nursing various degrees of injuries showed in the match as the Super Eagles lost 1-5.

There have always been protests from the days of old like we are told in the Bible. One of such protests was a divinely ordained protest by Moses to King Pharaoh against the enslavement of the Israelites in Egypt. Moses’ repeated demands to Pharaoh to “Let My people go” eventually led to the Exodus. However, […]