Comments for Mathematical 7 http://mathematical7.com To instigate, contribute to and promote the development of youths in Nigeria using the power of Sports Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:50:06 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Ilorin and the Kwara Football Academy! by David k Jiya http://mathematical7.com/ilorin-and-the-kwara-football-academy/#comment-6374 David k Jiya Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:50:06 +0000 http://localhost/web/m7/?p=87#comment-6374 Good day Sir, I want to partake in this football Academy Good day Sir, I want to partake in this football Academy

]]> Comment on AFCON 2012 – So far, a poor advertisement! by Rufus Orindare http://mathematical7.com/afcon-2012-so-far-a-poor-advertisement/#comment-6373 Rufus Orindare Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:06:02 +0000 http://mathematical7.com/?p=1393#comment-6373 I cancelled all my appointments and sat home to watch the Ghana -Mali game and the first thing that I, a novice noticed was Malians playing the Barca way. I thought they had a chance but Ghana was more superior. After the second goal, I shut off the T.V. A million thanks to the Senegalese TV station. We wouldn't have been able to see the game without it. Once again, like most things Nigerian, NTA International sorely disappointed by not showing the game as promised. I cancelled all my appointments and sat home to watch the Ghana -Mali game and the first thing that I, a novice noticed was Malians playing the Barca way. I thought they had a chance but Ghana was more superior. After the second goal, I shut off the T.V. A million thanks to the Senegalese TV station. We wouldn’t have been able to see the game without it. Once again, like most things Nigerian, NTA International sorely disappointed by not showing the game as promised.

]]> Comment on AFCON 2012 – So far, a poor advertisement! by duro afonja http://mathematical7.com/afcon-2012-so-far-a-poor-advertisement/#comment-6372 duro afonja Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:49:33 +0000 http://mathematical7.com/?p=1393#comment-6372 Mathematical, hope you watched the Gabon-Morocco game yesterday. That was a good game with great passion from the fans Mathematical, hope you watched the Gabon-Morocco game yesterday. That was a good game with great passion from the fans

]]> Comment on A tribute to an African Athletics Legend – Sunday Bada! by Engr.Funsho Alabi http://mathematical7.com/a-tribute-to-an-african-athletics-legend-sunday-bada/#comment-6371 Engr.Funsho Alabi Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:00:33 +0000 http://mathematical7.com/?p=1335#comment-6371 Sunday Bada too, may you rest in the right hand of your Lord the Almighty. Oku nsunkun oku, akaso lori nsunkun ara won. Sunday Bada too, may you rest in the right hand of your Lord the Almighty. Oku nsunkun oku, akaso lori nsunkun ara won.

]]> Comment on English Premier League Vs Nigeria Premier League – Keshi to the rescue! by Jaguar http://mathematical7.com/english-premier-league-vs-nigeria-premier-league-keshi-to-the-rescue/#comment-6370 Jaguar Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:44:42 +0000 http://mathematical7.com/?p=1373#comment-6370 Well done Keshi. That is surely the first tentative step in the right direction. Personally, I recall when on a few occasions I was the only player in the national team that was local. The unadulterated pride I used to be filled with when at training or running out to play amongst all our imports I can not describe. Having said that, our league then, though unbeknowest to us was a professional league in all respects apart from in name. What Keshi is trying to put in place now needs to be supported from all quarters, administratively and from business concerns (as partners and sponsors). First and foremost, football in Nigeria needs to be seen, managed and run as a business. That is what it is. Simple. The spectators and life-blood of football need to recognise that fact as well. At the moment though, borrowing from John Kennedy "Ask not what our football can do for you, but what you can do for our football" Well done Keshi. That is surely the first tentative step in the right direction.

Personally, I recall when on a few occasions I was the only player in the national team that was local. The unadulterated pride I used to be filled with when at training or running out to play amongst all our imports I can not describe. Having said that, our league then, though unbeknowest to us was a professional league in all respects apart from in name.

What Keshi is trying to put in place now needs to be supported from all quarters, administratively and from business concerns (as partners and sponsors). First and foremost, football in Nigeria needs to be seen, managed and run as a business. That is what it is. Simple.

The spectators and life-blood of football need to recognise that fact as well.

At the moment though, borrowing from John Kennedy “Ask not what our football can do for you, but what you can do for our football”

]]> Comment on Haruna Ilerika is dead! by Engr.Funsho Alabi http://mathematical7.com/haruna-ilerika-is-dead/#comment-6369 Engr.Funsho Alabi Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:56:17 +0000 http://mathematical7.com/?p=170#comment-6369 Ilerika was our mentor when we were in primary school. We loved to dribble to emmulate him and every spectators would shout "Haruna Ilerika" ! There was a time he came to Ilorin with other Green Eagle Colleagues on friendly encounters with Kwara Bombers FootBall Club. We went to GTTS (now UNILORIN Mini Campus) to watched him live! It was marvelous then. Haruna Ilerika rest in perfect peace with your Lord the Almighty. Ilerika was our mentor when we were in primary school. We loved to dribble to emmulate him and every spectators would shout “Haruna Ilerika” ! There was a time he came to Ilorin with other Green Eagle Colleagues on friendly encounters with Kwara Bombers FootBall Club. We went to GTTS (now UNILORIN Mini Campus) to watched him live!
It was marvelous then. Haruna Ilerika rest in perfect peace with your Lord the Almighty.

]]> Comment on A tribute to an African Athletics Legend – Sunday Bada! by Sunday Bada 3 http://mathematical7.com/a-tribute-to-an-african-athletics-legend-sunday-bada/#comment-6365 Sunday Bada 3 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:53:28 +0000 http://mathematical7.com/?p=1335#comment-6365 Uncle Segun u truely hit the nail on the head, my brother was all u said he was. I spoke with him 3hrs b4 he died and he told me his plans for the next year and I told him mine not knowing I wont meet him alive next year I visit 9ja, he made me who I am today cos when I was in school he tracked my moves and always tell me we have a name to protect and when I needed anyting in school when he was living in Surulere then and things wasnt good he always tells me aburo its for a period of time even when the accident happened and it fell into my wedding period and I didnt know and told him he needs to contribute to assist me he said I owe u alot. I still wont blive Sir Larry died but if its true may his loving and caring soul rest in peace. THE ENTIRE BADA CLAN LOST ONE OF OUR BEST AND 9JA LOST ONE OF HIS BEST. Uncle Segun u truely hit the nail on the head, my brother was all u said he was. I spoke with him 3hrs b4 he died and he told me his plans for the next year and I told him mine not knowing I wont meet him alive next year I visit 9ja, he made me who I am today cos when I was in school he tracked my moves and always tell me we have a name to protect and when I needed anyting in school when he was living in Surulere then and things wasnt good he always tells me aburo its for a period of time even when the accident happened and it fell into my wedding period and I didnt know and told him he needs to contribute to assist me he said I owe u alot. I still wont blive Sir Larry died but if its true may his loving and caring soul rest in peace. THE ENTIRE BADA CLAN LOST ONE OF OUR BEST AND 9JA LOST ONE OF HIS BEST.

]]> Comment on 2011 – Nigeria’s year of football drought! by Rufus Orindare http://mathematical7.com/2011-nigerias-year-of-football-drought/#comment-6363 Rufus Orindare Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:11:41 +0000 http://mathematical7.com/?p=1343#comment-6363 Prof. Sadiq, I read you clearly. What is currently happening in sports is a general reflection of what is going on in the society. We don't need just a year of sports protest, we need our own Ebony Spring much akin to the Arab variety. But who's going to start it? Gani Fawehinmi is gone to his maker, Wole Soyinka is tired, the Kutis are depleted and the bedrock of protests in the days of yore, (id est, the universities) are no longer what they used to be. Hence, it will be far easier to move the Earth from its orbit than to start a protest. Our rulers know that too. That's why they're building a clinic in the Rock at a cost of N1.2 billion and gastronomic delight for the year at a miserly cost of N1.3 billion. The poor ones could rot in their earthly hell. These are hard times indeed. For eons now, things have been turning and turning like a widening gyro, so much that the falcon could not hear the falconer. And now things have not only fallen apart, they have effectively gone into desuetude. Take a cursory look at our politics. We have always been ruled by people who are reluctant to take the dais of power. We have in power people who have not been elected by a popular mandate but selected by people in the penumbra of power. I explain. Shagari was glad to be a senator. Yar Ardua was not even planning to be a leader as he was the only PDP governor who refused to pick up an application for the job. Now , we have a man who arrived in the belly of a whale festooned with garlands of luck and people wonder why he is still in a deep slumber. Remember the biblical Jonah? That rings a bell, does it not?. Take a look at the legislative arm too. The King who made his Mark was a minister for propaganda in his previous incarnation. He it was, who demurred on the possibility of the hoi-polloi having telephones in their homes as these devices are meant for the affluent alone. You can't beat that with a long pole. Can you? And you talk about a transformational process. From what to what?. The long suffering masses are about to be transformed from frying pan to fire with the proposed removal of petroleum subsidies. One can only hope that when that happens, the sphinx can then be roused from its slumber. And then the Ebony Spring can begin in earnest. For now, make we just siddon dey look. Let's keep praying though. For prayer solves all problem. Does it not? We pray before every game. We pray at half time. We pray for accidents to be abated on our roads. We pray to God to change the thinking of our leader and yet they rob us blind . We are a nation of prayer warriors and not protest warriors. After all, protests are a sort of war by other means. But , did we ever ask ourselves whom we're praying to? We have been praying to a foreign God in local dialect. Any wonder why he's been deaf to our supplications? We have stopped praying to Olodumare, Chineke, Ubangiji who will understand our language. Now we pray to el Shaddai, Elohim, Jehovah Nissi et al, who are essentially foreign Gods. Do we even know what the names mean? Elohim for instance means the gods, after all, God was quoted in Genesis to have talked to his subordinates to "Come, let us make man in our own image" Abi una don forget your biblical studies? Enough of the digression. Call me when you have time. Prof. Sadiq,
I read you clearly. What is currently happening in sports is a general reflection of what is going on in the society. We don’t need just a year of sports protest, we need our own Ebony Spring much akin to the Arab variety. But who’s going to start it? Gani Fawehinmi is gone to his maker, Wole Soyinka is tired, the Kutis are depleted and the bedrock of protests in the days of yore, (id est, the universities) are no longer what they used to be. Hence, it will be far easier to move the Earth from its orbit than to start a protest. Our rulers know that too. That’s why they’re building a clinic in the Rock at a cost of N1.2 billion and gastronomic delight for the year at a miserly cost of N1.3 billion. The poor ones could rot in their earthly hell. These are hard times indeed.
For eons now, things have been turning and turning like a widening gyro, so much that the falcon could not hear the falconer. And now things have not only fallen apart, they have effectively gone into desuetude.
Take a cursory look at our politics. We have always been ruled by people who are reluctant to take the dais of power. We have in power people who have not been elected by a popular mandate but selected by people in the penumbra of power. I explain.
Shagari was glad to be a senator. Yar Ardua was not even planning to be a leader as he was the only PDP governor who refused to pick up an application for the job. Now , we have a man who arrived in the belly of a whale festooned with garlands of luck and people wonder why he is still in a deep slumber. Remember the biblical Jonah? That rings a bell, does it not?.
Take a look at the legislative arm too. The King who made his Mark was a minister for propaganda in his previous incarnation.
He it was, who demurred on the possibility of the hoi-polloi having telephones in their homes as these devices are meant for the affluent alone. You can’t beat that with a long pole. Can you?
And you talk about a transformational process. From what to what?. The long suffering masses are about to be transformed from frying pan to fire with the proposed removal of petroleum subsidies. One can only hope that when that happens, the sphinx can then be roused from its slumber. And then the Ebony Spring can begin in earnest. For now, make we just siddon dey look.
Let’s keep praying though. For prayer solves all problem. Does it not? We pray before every game. We pray at half time. We pray for accidents to be abated on our roads. We pray to God to change the thinking of our leader and yet they rob us blind . We are a nation of prayer warriors and not protest warriors. After all, protests are a sort of war by other means. But , did we ever ask ourselves whom we’re praying to? We have been praying to a foreign God in local dialect. Any wonder why he’s been deaf to our supplications? We have stopped praying to Olodumare, Chineke, Ubangiji who will understand our language. Now we pray to el Shaddai, Elohim, Jehovah Nissi et al, who are essentially foreign Gods. Do we even know what the names mean? Elohim for instance means the gods, after all, God was quoted in Genesis to have talked to his subordinates to “Come, let us make man in our own image” Abi una don forget your biblical studies?
Enough of the digression. Call me when you have time.

]]> Comment on 2011 – Nigeria’s year of football drought! by Sadiq Abdullahi http://mathematical7.com/2011-nigerias-year-of-football-drought/#comment-6362 Sadiq Abdullahi Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:02:03 +0000 http://mathematical7.com/?p=1343#comment-6362 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Big Seg! indeed, sports particularly football and tennis in Nigeria in 2011 were a big disappointment. A bigger disappointment are those who paraded as sports administrators, managers, and coaches. They have woefully failed the nation and the youths. 2011 will judge all of us harshly and without impunity. But there is hope. We have to be hopeful. The next generation depend on us. Your article suggests we should not give up in the struggle. We need to seriously rethink who decides "what" and "how" sports at all levels should be run. If we seriously want to rebuild, we need to articulate a clear vison to kick start a new direction. We cannot continue to write and write, do and do the same thing with the same individuals (selfish people) and expect a different result or outcome for Nigeria and its youths. The debate or discussion this piece will engender should examine to what extent do social, cultural and economic factors play in our psyche as distinct groups of people from different localities and different interests with a complicated historical past. Again in 2011, we have failed to take the necessary risks needed to make a meaningful transformation in sports. Nigerian governments at all levels have but a limited role to play in this transformational process. The year 2012 should be the "Year of Sports Protest" to reclaim football, Track and Field, and Tennis. Happy Holidays Everyone! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Big Seg!
indeed, sports particularly football and tennis in Nigeria in 2011 were a big disappointment. A bigger disappointment are those who paraded as sports administrators, managers, and coaches. They have woefully failed the nation and the youths. 2011 will judge all of us harshly and without impunity. But there is hope. We have to be hopeful. The next generation depend on us. Your article suggests we should not give up in the struggle. We need to seriously rethink who decides “what” and “how” sports at all levels should be run. If we seriously want to rebuild, we need to articulate a clear vison to kick start a new direction. We cannot continue to write and write, do and do the same thing with the same individuals (selfish people) and expect a different result or outcome for Nigeria and its youths. The debate or discussion this piece will engender should examine to what extent do social, cultural and economic factors play in our psyche as distinct groups of people from different localities and different interests with a complicated historical past. Again in 2011, we have failed to take the necessary risks needed to make a meaningful transformation in sports. Nigerian governments at all levels have but a limited role to play in this transformational process. The year 2012 should be the “Year of Sports Protest” to reclaim football, Track and Field, and Tennis. Happy Holidays Everyone!

]]> Comment on A tribute to an African Athletics Legend – Sunday Bada! by Jaguar http://mathematical7.com/a-tribute-to-an-african-athletics-legend-sunday-bada/#comment-6361 Jaguar Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:12:03 +0000 http://mathematical7.com/?p=1335#comment-6361 Gbolabo, not to detract from the sad loss of Sunday Bada, whose soul I pray rests in peace, thank you for your enlightening contribution. Now! He who has ears let him listen. Gbolabo, not to detract from the sad loss of Sunday Bada, whose soul I pray rests in peace, thank you for your enlightening contribution.

Now! He who has ears let him listen.

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