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Technical Adviser of Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) of Ibadan Gbenga Ogunbote, said his team will aim for a positive result against Nasarawa United today,  to kick start their NPFL 2024/25 campaign. This was disclosed in a statement by the Club's spokesperson, Tosin Omojola. The Oluyole Warriors, will face the Solid Miners Sunday afternoon at the Lafia City Stadium. Speaking ahead of the Matchday one fixture, the 'Oracle' as the sweat merchant is fondly called, admitted that it will be a tough game, considering the fact that the host are not new to the NPFL hostilities. "Every team playing in the premiership needs to be respected. They (Nasarawa United) have been there before before they lost their status, now they are back, they are not new in the premiership. "I will not get carried away by the fact that they just coming back. We will do our best to get a good result beause our target is to start well and finish brilliantly", stated the 3SC gaffer. Team c

No doubt, photographs evoke metaphors, imageries and diverse interpretations. Imagery was evoked in my mind as I read President Bola Tinubu’s remarks during his recent adventure to China. He spoke while addressing Nigerians living in that country. “Nigeria is going through reforms, and we are taking very bold and unprecedented decisions. For example, you might have been hearing from home in the last few days about fuel prices. But, can we help it?” the president said cavalierly like a cruel surgeon about to dissect a patient to whom he had neither empathy nor any iota of feeling. We had thought the president was not aware of our interminable queues at petrol stations since he was in far away China. We thought he didn’t know that Nigeria was literally comatose as Nigerians burnt precious man hours on petrol queues. But, with that statement, we now know that our president is aware that Nigerians are dying as a result of his so-called reforms. Nigerians’ situation today is such that, even