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...
Football
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....
General
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...
Featured, Sports Development
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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African athletics comes to Abeokuta!
It is as if Abeokuta did not miss a single beat since the end of the National Sports Festival, several weeks ago. The town simply changed gears, and continued to dance to a new musical tune in a seamless transition...
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Football comes to Wasimi this summer!
The 8th edition of the 2025 Wasimi Summer Soccer Championship, a football festival that has been taking place every year since 2016, is just around the corner. The venues for this years matches are football fields located between Wasimi and...
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Chasing the ‘impossible’ dream!
Sport and Reverse Migration. This is an ‘advertisement’. Ordinarily, it would seem an impossible dream that, one day, the flood of migration of Nigerians to foreign lands, particularly Europe and America, would reduce to a trickle and even be reversed....
Featured, Sports Development
Games Village – uniting Nigerian athletes like no other !
I visited the campus of Babcock University last Wednesday morning. The university is the temporary ‘home’ of 12,000 young Nigerian athletes. They come from every part of the country - North, South, East and West. In organising the 2024 National...
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My National Sports Festival experience…and the 2025 Gateway Games!
The National Sports Festival is upon us in Nigeria. My friends, several co-Olympians based in the United States, have called to inform me they will be in Abeokuta for the 22nd edition of the Games that hold sweet memories for...
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