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/i-am-praying-everyday-for-adokie-%e2%80%93-bishop-ajakaye/ http://mathematical7.com/i-am-praying-everyday-for-adokie-%e2%80%93-bishop-ajakaye/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:25:59 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=510 I promised last week to express my thoughts on ‘CJ’ Adokie Amiesimaka’s explosive revelation two weeks ago in his Sunday column. Since then the matter has refused to die down or go away. The genie has been let out of the bottle and the matter has remained on the front burner of national, moral and [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/i-am-praying-everyday-for-adokie-%e2%80%93-bishop-ajakaye/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/conversation-with-seigha-porbeni/ http://mathematical7.com/conversation-with-seigha-porbeni/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:44:29 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=492 The number is unfamiliar but I pick up the call. A voice yells excitedly into my ears: ‘two things are involved’. I know immediately who it is. There is only one person that exchanges those words with me every time we meet or speak on phone. We have not spoken or seen each other for [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/conversation-with-seigha-porbeni/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/football-the-educational-bottleneck-and-the-under-17-championship/ http://mathematical7.com/football-the-educational-bottleneck-and-the-under-17-championship/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:25:20 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=458 According to official figures there are over 7 million Nigerian children that have no access to education in the country. That must be a joke. Oby Ezekwesili put the figure at 23 million when she was minister in charge of the education ministry. That appears to be more realistic. Authoritative but external sources, however, put [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/football-the-educational-bottleneck-and-the-under-17-championship/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/the-second-coming-of-lee-evans-and-ron-davis/ http://mathematical7.com/the-second-coming-of-lee-evans-and-ron-davis/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:52:19 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=436 The last time I saw them was almost thirty years ago. Shortly before the suspension of Mr. Isaac Akioye from office as Director of the National Sports Commission both men left the shores of Nigeria after helping to develop a strong athletics culture and foundation for the country. Without doubt they were a very major [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/the-second-coming-of-lee-evans-and-ron-davis/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/sadiq-abdullahi-%e2%80%93-making-a-great-impact-already/ http://mathematical7.com/sadiq-abdullahi-%e2%80%93-making-a-great-impact-already/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:57:27 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=404 It is no longer news that Nigeria’s former national tennis champion, Sadiq Abdullahi, has been around the country on an exploratory visit these past two weeks. He has visited Ogun State where he worked with students of The International Sports Academy and other young players and coaches from the State Sports Council at a two-day [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/sadiq-abdullahi-%e2%80%93-making-a-great-impact-already/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/the-letter-from-heaven/ http://mathematical7.com/the-letter-from-heaven/#comments Sun, 03 May 2009 06:36:22 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=353 I had read about the Beyond Sport project and Organisation well over one year ago during one of my trips abroad in Newsweek. It was an article written by the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, on the life of sports persons after sport, and the organisation he was a part of that was set [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/the-letter-from-heaven/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/how-time-flies-debola-has-made-it-in-america/ http://mathematical7.com/how-time-flies-debola-has-made-it-in-america/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:45:26 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=302 Can you believe it’s been 3 years since I wrote about this young Nigerian football player I had supported to attend a university in the United States of America. In 2005 Sam Okpodu, former international football player and former coach of the Falcons, came to Nigeria in search of qualified talented footballers that had an [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/how-time-flies-debola-has-made-it-in-america/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/thanks-to-all/ http://mathematical7.com/thanks-to-all/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:23:41 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=286 If there was an iota of doubt in my mind about where my life was headed before last Thursday it evaporated in the whiff of the dust that rose from the red earth of Wasimi Orile thrown up by the feet of over 600 hundred people from the media, corporate organizations, the communities, a curious [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/thanks-to-all/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/farewell-to-a-fallen-comrade-%e2%80%93dr-musa-dogonyaro-nigerian-olympian-extraordinaire-by-bruce-tajinere-ijirigho-phd/ http://mathematical7.com/farewell-to-a-fallen-comrade-%e2%80%93dr-musa-dogonyaro-nigerian-olympian-extraordinaire-by-bruce-tajinere-ijirigho-phd/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:13:48 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=239 Nigerian Olympian Extraordinaire By Bruce Tajinere Ijirigho, Ph.D.   I received a mail this past week from the United States. After reading it I realised that my tribute paid on this page to late Musa Dogonyaro, one of Nigeria’s greatest athletes who passed on last August, was actually a dis-service to the memory of this great man. [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/farewell-to-a-fallen-comrade-%e2%80%93dr-musa-dogonyaro-nigerian-olympian-extraordinaire-by-bruce-tajinere-ijirigho-phd/feed/ http://mathematical7.com/key-to-sports-development-the-tia-example/ http://mathematical7.com/key-to-sports-development-the-tia-example/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:57:45 +0000 Segun Odegbami http://mathematical7.com/?p=158   No, this is not an advertisement! It is the present reality that must interest all those peering into the future of Nigerian sports and seeing nothing but darkness in the tunnel. It is not all gloom as the environment paints a lot of times. The key to Nigeria’s future development in sports is the establishment [...]]]> http://mathematical7.com/key-to-sports-development-the-tia-example/feed/