Once again, Japan made it to the top position of the World’s Most Powerful Passport! This is according to the rankings by Henley Passport Index – an organization that periodically measures the access each country’s travel document affords. This will be the second time in succession that Japan has held that position. The ranking is revised quarterly. According to Henley Passport Index report, Japan retains its top spot as the world’s most travel-friendly passport thanks to the document’s access to…

The African football governing body announced on Tuesday, the 8th of January 2019, that Egypt has now been granted hosting rights to the biggest African football tournament after Cameroon were stripped of the hosting rights December last year. Worries over infrastructure and security culminated in the decision to remove Cameroon from the enviable position of tournament hosts in what CAF perceived as a lack of preparedness for a tournament set to kick-off in June this year. South Africa and Egypt…

Mohamed Salah has won the 2018 African Player of the Year prize ahead of Arsenal rival Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Liverpool team-mate Sadio Mane, claiming the prestigious award at Tuesday’s ceremony in Dakar. It is the Egypt international’s second African Player of the Year title to become the fourth African after El Hadji Diouf, Samuel Eto’o, Yaya Toure to win the award back to back. The feat thwarts Aubameyang’s quest to add to his haul, with the Gabon international last winning…

Nigerian professor, Richard Akindele, popularly known to have been accused of demanding sex from a female student, has been sentenced to prison. Akindele was convicted after pleading guilty to four criminal charges, including demanding gratification from a student and sexual coercion of a student. Akindele had pleaded not guilty to the charges in earlier court appearances at the Federal High Court in Osogbo, southwest Nigeria. However, he changed his plea during his third appearance in court. Akindele was sentenced to two years…

The crowd cheered as he lifted from the ground, two hands on the ball. I was filled with joy as he plucked two points on his way down. Our big man has brought us closer to the opponents with his superb lay technique. We were still down by 2 points as the score now is 44-42 in the opponent favour. “20 seconds to go” the timer shouted and as he started the count down (audibly since we do not have…

Nigeria GDP is about $500billion, making her the richest in Africa, richer than South Africa. But we know matter-of-factly , by all measures our economy is unproductive and one of the worst in the world given our population. With a population of about 200million, our GDP should be in multiple of trillions, just as France with only 67 million people command a GDP of $2.9 trillion. The depraved state of our economy becomes even more humiliating when countries like Sweden…