http://mathematical7.com To instigate, contribute to and promote the development of youths in Nigeria using the power of Sports Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:54:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en http://mathematical7.com/time-for-change/ http://mathematical7.com/time-for-change/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:27:46 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=870 I am writing this on Thursday night, well past the deadline for submission of my article for this week. I am doing so because earlier today some international footballers presented a few of us ex-international footballers with interest to be part of the next Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Association to the media.  I [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/time-for-change/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/nff-elections-heading-for-disaster/ http://mathematical7.com/nff-elections-heading-for-disaster/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:40:30 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=866 The air is supercharged with the forthcoming elections into the Executive Committee of the NFF, so one cannot get away from commenting on the goings-on. Truly bizarre things are happening and until a few days ago when Aisha Falode elevated the conversation to a national discourse very little reaction was coming from any of the parties [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/nff-elections-heading-for-disaster/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/wuru-wuru-to-the-answer-nff-elections-part-2/ http://mathematical7.com/wuru-wuru-to-the-answer-nff-elections-part-2/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:59:06 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=788 FIFA and Government interference I am still going through FIFA’s response to the NFF’s proposed statutes sent without any solicitation to FIFA in a letter in December of 2009. It makes interesting study. The following is an excerpt from the FIFA response document: ‘We would like to remind you that the NFF should be exclusively a private [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/wuru-wuru-to-the-answer-nff-elections-part-2/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/wuru-wuru-to-the-answer-nff-elections-part-1/ http://mathematical7.com/wuru-wuru-to-the-answer-nff-elections-part-1/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:57:25 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=786 I was presented an unusual gift by a friend the other day. I have gone through the document he gave me a few times since then. It has been an education. I do not know how long it will take but I shall try to serialise my thoughts on the exchange of correspondences between the [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/wuru-wuru-to-the-answer-nff-elections-part-1/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/the-unending-drama-of-the-npl-board-elections/ http://mathematical7.com/the-unending-drama-of-the-npl-board-elections/#comments Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:36:14 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=761 It is the norm. An incumbent board designs an electoral process to give it the advantage to retain power. Every previous board of every association does that. The Nigeria Professional League, NPL, board of Chief Onyuki Obaseki is no exception. Unfortunately, even the best conceived script sometimes goes awry as has happened with the out-gone [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/the-unending-drama-of-the-npl-board-elections/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/the-world-cup-%e2%80%93-another-project/ http://mathematical7.com/the-world-cup-%e2%80%93-another-project/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:30:37 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=731 The World Cup is a project on its own. It is a totally different project from the African Cup of Nations. The level of competition is different. The requirements, reward and consequence of victory or defeat are also different! That’s why the present time presents the country with a new opportunity to look at what [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/the-world-cup-%e2%80%93-another-project/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/the-killing-fields-of-jos/ http://mathematical7.com/the-killing-fields-of-jos/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:31:47 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=716 Let me leave the matter of Angola and the national team for now and write about what ails my heart. As we celebrate football in Angola, let us take a moment to mourn the loss of over 400 innocent people, Nigerians, to death in a senseless orgy of violence in the city of Jos. Let [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/the-killing-fields-of-jos/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/angola-%e2%80%93-dim-prospects-of-a-great-event/ http://mathematical7.com/angola-%e2%80%93-dim-prospects-of-a-great-event/#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:57:36 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=523 The signs I see about Angola 2010 are dire. The country is difficult to access. It is not the easiest place to visit. The only ways to get there are via South Africa or Kenya, both long and expensive journeys. Securing the country’s visa also is extremely tedious from the reports one has been getting [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/angola-%e2%80%93-dim-prospects-of-a-great-event/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/do-not-wake-me-up-from-this-dream-%e2%80%93-the-green-eagles-are-world-champions/ http://mathematical7.com/do-not-wake-me-up-from-this-dream-%e2%80%93-the-green-eagles-are-world-champions/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:22:35 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=514 Well…..If anyone expects me to say ‘I told you so’ they are in for some disappointment. Even now I am still trying to understand why I should have received the tonnes of messages of congratulations I did after Nigeria’s victory in Nairobi considering that I had little or no part to play in the remarkable [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/do-not-wake-me-up-from-this-dream-%e2%80%93-the-green-eagles-are-world-champions/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/message-from-best-ogedegbe/ http://mathematical7.com/message-from-best-ogedegbe/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:27:50 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=512 I have a message from late Best Ogedegbe! I did not hear his voice, No! On the day of his funeral last weekend I simply sat quietly in St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Oke Ado, Ibadan, looked around the full congregation that had come to pay their last respect to him, and tried to imagine what [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/message-from-best-ogedegbe/feed/