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By Ngozi Nwoke A mother recently narrated how her teenage daughter went to register for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and tried to thumbprint, but the biometric scanner couldn’t capture her thumbs. She sought medical advice from a dermatologist where her daughter was diagnosed with a condition called Adermatoglyphia. It is a rare genetic disorder […]

•‘Regular checks, fruits consumption important for good sight’ By Kehinde Aderemi Alhaja Abike Ojuolape, 65, has been selling provisions at the popular Ladega Market in Ikorodu long before she was diagnosed with glaucoma. According to her, she thought her problem with the eye disease was age-related because the first sign to her came when she […]

•How Fawehinmi’s four-year mentorship of Kaduna gov shapes Sani’s policies in health, education, others –Basirat, late Fawehinmi’s daughter   From Noah Ebije, Kaduna For four years, the young Comrade Uba Sani lived under the roof of Nigeria’s foremost human rights activist and pro-democracy campaigner, the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi. It was an experience that his […]

On behalf of all Nigerians I welcome the delegation from FIFA to Nigeria. I wish them an enjoyable and fruitful stay. I pray that this will be the last time Nigerian football officials shall invite FIFA to the country for the purpose of resolving our self-inflicted domestic problems. Each time we did so (invite them) […]

‎‎By Godwin Dudu-Orumen  ‎Who owns Nigerian Football? ‎The people who built the game remain outside the room where its offices are shared. Where are the footballers? ‎Not only the famous ones who appear on television when the Super Eagles are playing. I mean the men and women who came through Nigerian clubs, survived the local […]

By Douglas Baye-Osagie   _dbayeosagie@yahoo.com Augustine Eguavoen is one of the enduring names in Nigerian football. His story stretches back to the great days of the Green Eagles in the 1980s and the Super Eagles in the 1990s, when Nigerian football was beginning to announce itself on the global stage. But for all the glory attached […]

By Polycarp Ifeanyi History was made in Onitsha, the commercial hub of Anambra State, as thousands of people from across the state and neighboring states converged on the city to participate in Ave Maria Praise 2026. The event, themed “Fill the Jars, Make Room for Fresh Wine”John 2:1-11, was organized by Faithspiration Initiative, led by […]

.Players’ body kicks against unequal representation .Insists, ‘state FA chairmen must not outnumber us’  By Jacob Ajom As Nigerians await the meeting between officials of FIFA and stakeholders in Nigerian football tomorrow in Abuja, a former Nigerian international, Sylvanus Okpala has said that Nigeria has nothing to fear. Speaking with Sports Vanguard yesterday, Okpala said […]

Andrew Uwe led the Flying Eagles to bronze at the USSR 1985 FIFA Under 20 World Championships. Later in the year, he was part of the Leventis United squad that played in the finals of the African Winners Cup. The towering defender featured for Iwuanyanwu Nationale in the finals of the1988 CAF Champions League. Now, […]

Again, there is an important distinction: A deduction from your salary is not necessarily an additional tax. Where the law recognises the deduction in determining chargeable income, it may reduce the amount of income on which your tax is calculated. Employees should therefore check their payslips and relevant remittance records to ensure that deductions described […]

Just about this time four years ago, the All Progressives Congress, APC, found itself at the centre of one of the more bizarre spectacles of Nigeria’s 2023 election season. At the unveiling of Senator Kashim Shettima as Bola Tinubu’s presidential running mate, on July 20, 2022, an assortment of men and women dressed in the […]

I attended the book launch of Deolu Folarin, a classmate and longtime friend a couple of weeks ago. Titled ‘An Odyssey of a life marked by grace’, the book was to capture the highs and lows of his journey of 75 years on earth. A couple of days later, I attended the book launch of […]