Day: July 27, 2025

Mission X: How Super Falcons Become WAFCON Champion, Wom 10th Cup

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Dirty details of controversial Morocco-Beat-Nigeria gaffe by Voice of Nigeria (VoN) that made tongues wagging + What speakers on Platforms Africa forum said on the report that has set the Internet on fire     Nigeria staged an extraordinary second-half comeback to defeat hosts Morocco 3-2 to lift their 10th TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) crown, which they had tagged: “Mission X,” before the commencement of the competition. In front of home fans, the Atlas Lionesses got off to a dream start at the Stade Olympique…

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Crude Tensions Over Crude Oil: Brothers At War Over Oil Wells

Abibat Babalola

Something deep inside keeps telling me Nigeria would have been far better without crude oil. And I believe it! Nigeria was relatively better before independence. It was still, before crude oil became the main economic sustainer, before the 1970s. Nigeria’s economy was stronger in the global trade index. The currency was competitive. The discovery of crude oil in commercial quantities introduced crudity into our psyche, and drew unnecessary attention locally and globally. Things began to fall apart. Foresight disappeared. Ingenuity diminished. Innovation was abandoned, integrity shunned, sanity fled, love lost,…

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