Regardless of government’s interventions or not, the security situation in Nigeria is still gruesome. And now, it’s become more horrifying in the Northwest. Even the persisting tug-of-wars between herders and farmers on a daily around the remote parts of the Country’s Northcentral region and the Northeast’s Boko Haram insurgency are now nothing to be compared with the deadly gunmen’s attacks that have beclouded the Northwest. In actuality, before everyone’s eyes, northwestern Nigeria has now become the safest haven of active terror groups. And notably, the unprecedented increase in violent attacks has been defying the kept-up narrative amongst analysts that the northwest is relatively peaceful…
Author: Sherifdeen Olamilekan
When people say someone has ignited from grass to grace, the like of Taiwo Awoniyi is a swanky example. The entrenched player who now sports with the English Premier League Club Nottingham Forests is a magnificent paradigm to delineate stories of moving from the scratch to the mountaintop. Although, every other successful player has similar details to tell but this is on another whole level as it’s pictured on a Nigerian State whose interest in football has been enormous but which producing players to the limelight seem miraculous for. Kwara State happens to be a state in the North Central…
Ibrahim Musa Gusau has emerged as the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) at the 78th Elective Congress of the country’s football regulatory organization, which took place in Benin, Edo State on Friday. On the 30th of September, 2022, Mallam Ibrahim Gusau emerged as the new president of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). The event took place in Edo State at the 78th Elective Congress of the country’s football regulatory organization. At the expiration of Amaju Melvin Pinnick’s two-term tenure in September 2022, who was previously the head of the football body, Ibrahim then dived into a contest with eleven others to compete…
Practically, due to the delays in construction of stadiums and other infrastructure, Cameroon, who were originally supposed to host the 2019 African Cup of Nations were reported to be hosting the famed tournament later in 2021 after the 2019 edition had already been relocated to Egypt. Again, as Covid-19 would change narratives, the tournament, not only it, but alongside other African and world tournaments were withheld until when the pandemic pressures seemed relieved. This makes it bizarre when a tournament isn’t describing the date it’s taking place – AFCON 2021 taking place in 2022, bizarre absolutely just like the most…
Amid the sufferings of the abrupt elimination from AFCON 2021 in Cameroon, the Super Eagles of Nigeria have moved up two places in the latest FIFA rankings released on Thursday, 10 February, 2022 by the world soccer governing association. The Super Eagles, who are now third in Africa have also become the 33rd best team in the world. While previously, the Nigerian team were in the 5th position in Africa and 36th globally. However, Senegal, the newly crowned African champions, do not only retain their position as the highest ranked African country but also moved from 20th to 18th globally-…
