Joshua King's Free Press

It is no longer news that Portuguese born football manager Jose Mourinho is now the manager of popular English football club Manchester United . Congratulations Manchester United and Mourinho. I am wrong. I said months ago that he may never get a top job considering his poor result at Chelsea the second time and how he blamed his players after each loss. It did not make sense that a top club would immediately jump on and hire him at the time. But this is football. I said it   here and even on national TV that United should not hire the special one. Well, they have yielded to media pressure and appointed him. More football drama will be played out this coming season. Wait a minute, the number of high profile managers in one league alone is suddenly curious. Pep Guardiola, Antonio Conte, Arsene Wenger, Jurngen Klopp, and Claudio Ranieri are all going to be on the side lines next season.   Now if you add Mauricio Pochetino, Slaven Bilic, Koeman, Francisco Gui...

Today, I have been doing a lot of thinking. A lot of thinking about Nigeria. First, I am largely disappointed. I did not expect much from a new government but then I did not expect that they would do worse than the former. However, expecting a power hungry old man to do any differently than his true character amounts to naivety. My real disappointment comes from other people. The pa Buhari led FG has withdrawn subsidy on petrol. This means that Nigerians now must pay no less than N145 for a litre of petrol. While pa Buhari and his party the APC were in the opposition, they screamed all manner of absurdities against such a move by the immediate past government. Naturally, their message resonated with us. Jump forward to 2016 and tables have turned. The same people now make excuses for the same action. There is not enough FOREX as a result of dwindling oil prices to finance importation of petrol by marketers. Therefore, let the marketers source the FOREX independently and sell the ...