AFCON 2025 has ticked most of the boxes in the measure of a great African football festival even in the first week since it started. The low attendances at many of the matches are probably the only ‘set back’ so...
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AFCON 2025 – siddon look!
It is the eve of AFCON 2025. I am suffering from Super Eagles fatigue. I am not paying the usual attention to the championship. The Super Eagles are there, of course. For a team that I have always supported all...
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Nigerian football – what next!
This is the world of sports. Nigeria was once described as the ‘Giant of Africa’. The country was ranked 5th on the FIFA table, and the Super Eagles were hailed as the most entertaining national team during the 1994 World...
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Abeokuta – slowly, steadily developing a Sports Economy!
I don’t know if he knows it. I don’t also know if it is deliberate, or an accident of fate. Whatever it is, however, Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, the ‘Man of the 2025 Gateway Games’, has successfully planted...
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Humbling Nigeria’s domestic league – coaching, the bane!
Some of the greatest footballers in the history of football are either excellent dribblers, or deadly goal scorers. Their list is long and very special: Pele, Maradona, Haruna Ilerika, Rashidi Yekini, Zenedine Zidanne, Christiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Lamine Yamal, Ousmane...
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Super Eagles – when disappointment turns a blessing!
Hold on to these two universal truths: Never curse the darkness, hidden within it are treasures. Behind every disappointment is a blessing. With their backs against the wall the Super Eagles finally broke out of their shells to reveal the...
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Do or Die! Remembering Nwabueze Nwankwo!
I am writing this on Thursday. I am pregnant with the previews of the Super Eagles’ supremely crucial last two matches in the qualifying series for the FIFA 2026 World Cup, the first of which comes up tomorrow, Friday night....
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Sport in geo-politics at ‘The Platform’
I was on ‘The Platform’ during the week in Lagos, an intellectual stage for public presentation of view points and perspectives by invited speakers on subjects with a common theme and of national interest and significance, a compass for those...
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To be the best version of self in Sports!
I am devoting my column this week to a development that I cannot keep to myself. This is not an advertisement but an important message for parents driven by the dream and determination of their children to become sports super...
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Ogun State scores again…and more stories!
The African Athletics U-18/U-20 junior Championship 2025 ended last Sunday in Abeokuta. I am surprised that the airwaves have not been awash with encomiums for Ogun State, that accepted to hos the international event at the ‘last minute’ and still...
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