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There is this anecdote in Igboland of M̀gbekē and her cutlass. By the way, M̀gbekē is a synonym for an unrefined and unsophisticated girl. Each time M̀gbekē’s farmer colleagues visited her in the farm, they saw haphazardly tilled land and a female farmer lazily fondling her farm implement. Whenever Mgbeke was asked the reason for her snailish work, she complained of an old and ineffectual cutlass. Knowing M̀gbekē as the female version of Nnoka, Okonkwo’s lazy father in Things Fall Apart, it was difficult to believe the implement was the culprit. The villagers thereafter concluded that it was either M̀gbekē’s cutlass was defective, M̀gbekē herself was lazy or the problem was with both of them. The #EndBadGovernance protest which commenced last Thursday revealed several cracks in our Nigerianness. One major crack it revealed is our propensity for betrayal of a general struggle; the betrayal of Nigerians by Nigerians. Such betrayal is however not new in Nigeria or to Nigerians. It i

The 6th edition of the U-18 annual national MKO Boys Soccer Tournament that was instituted to immortalise the late business mogul and Pillar of Sports in Africa, Bashorun MKO Abiola will attract participants from the 36 States of the Federation. The Youth Sports Federation of Nigeria (YSFON) Secretary in Ogun State, Mr Olalekan Kehinde Adeyemi who is a member of the organizing committee has disclosed this to the sporting press while confirming date for the commencement of the tourney. Saturday, 24th of August, according to the Ogun YSFON Secretary has been picked with expectation to coincide with the posthumous birthday of the late sports Icon. Adeyemi, an English FA trained Football Psychologist stressed that "If RAMAT CUP is being organized annually in the city of Kano in honour of the late Nigerian head of State, Gen. Muritala Ramat Muhammed, And we also have Oba of Benin Cup being held annually in Benin, Ogun State YSFON will also make Bashorun MKO Abiola's Cup an annual e