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Afolabi Gambari

Lagos

Journalist at TheCable

Journalist, Writer, Editor, Biographer, Sociologist, Psychologist, Environmental scientist.

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  • 'We won't disappoint Nigerians' -- Junior Yellow-Greens vow to get U-19 cricket W'Cup ticket

    3 weeks ago | thecable.ng | Afolabi Gambari

    Kareem Gafar, captain of the Junior Yellow-Greens of Nigeria, has promised that the team will not disappoint at the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) under 19 men’s World Cup African qualifiers. The qualification tournament is billed to be held in Lagos from March 28 to April 6. Kenya, Uganda, Namibia, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, and host Nigeria will compete for Africa’s sole ticket to the World Cup during the 10-day tournament.

  • Fresh hope for Almajiris, adolescent out-of-school girls

    1 month ago | thecable.ng | Afolabi Gambari

    Keen observation provided a 13-year-old Maryam Ibrahim, whose indigent parents live in Dange Shuni Local Government in Sokoto State, some 10 kilometers north of the capital, with a rare view into her own future. She had watched how girls of her age were sent into early marriage and also saw how they ended up without any education and life skills, leading to them not being useful to society.

  • NSC’s strident call and NDDC’s swift response

    2 months ago | thecable.ng | Afolabi Gambari

    On the day the new Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Mallam Shehu Dikko, assumed office in October 2024, he hammered it home to all and sundry that the days of consumption – whereby Nigerians only looked forward to seeing the country’s athletes mount podiums to receive medals – were over. The new dawn, according to Dikko, must see to the conscious and deliberate efforts by all sports stakeholders in Nigeria to produce and nurture the athletes that would mount the podiums.

  • The IBB memoir, at long last

    2 months ago | thecable.ng | Afolabi Gambari

    The months, weeks, days, hours and even minutes leading to June 12, 1993 have proved so vital to how Nigeria has evolved in the last 32 years. If the foregoing statement is said to be debatable at all, whoever is calling for the debate would have a lot of explanation to make. And what an explanation that would have to be.

  • When Amaechi broke the ice

    2 months ago | thecable.ng | Afolabi Gambari

    Having not succeeded in his attempt to win the ticket to contest for the 2023 presidential election under the banner of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and having earlier followed the moral route to resign from his ministerial post before purchasing the party’s nomination form for the APC presidential primary election, Rt Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi could only wait for the tenure of the immediate past president Muhammadu Buhari, in whose government he served for eight years as...

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Afolabi Gambari
Afolabi Gambari @AfoGambari
6 Sep 22

RT @LDNFootbalI: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang x Denis Zakaria. 🔥 Chelsea debuts… 🔜💙 https://t.co/HxuB89KKvq

Afolabi Gambari
Afolabi Gambari @AfoGambari
25 Aug 22

Mr. Peter Obi of 2022 is not dissimilar to Major General Muhammadu Buhari of 2014 - both always appealing to crass emotion of would-be voters who have grown so frustrated as to believe that anything slightly better is the best.

Afolabi Gambari
Afolabi Gambari @AfoGambari
24 Aug 22

Remembering MJ... The following three lines in Michael Jackson's "Liberian girl" track in his 1987 album "Bad" are striking me at this moment... "Liberian girl More precious than any pearl Your love so complete..." What could have inspired MJ? Only he knew!