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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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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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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Dodo Mayana!
It is Thursday night. I am writing my article for the weekend. My phone keeps interrupting me. There is a flood of calls. I have always known, but now it dawns on me again, that I am the go-to person...
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That the world may never forget…!
The world must never forget the month of June 1976. And it is not because in that month I was freshly minted as a graduate of Mechanical Engineering, travelled to Europe for the first time in my life, and achieved...
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Gateway Games 2024 – My Man of the Games
The Gateway Games 2024 came to an end rather ‘suddenly’. To many people, and according to initial pre-games expectations, the 22nd National Sports Festival was to end on Friday, May 30th. That’s why, coming one day before, on Thursday, May...
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Diary of One great week of Sports!
ABUJA Something big and exciting is happening in the city of Abuja. It is hard to tell if it is deliberate, accidental or incidental. Whatever it is, there is an undercurrent of new development in sports. All one needs to...
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‘Sport has the power to change the world – how true?’
Last Wednesday, at the invitation of the Federal University Lokoja, I delivered the 15th Distinguished Public Lecture of the university. I am devoting my column this weekend to a slightly edited version of the presentation. When I received the invitation,...
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Reparation for Nigerian athletes – Going to the civil court!
I am giving this matter very serious thought again. There have been massive reactions to my editorial last weekend titled ‘the plight of retired sports heroes’ published and read in various media. I am motivated to head to the civil...
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Letter to Mr. President.
Your Excellency, ECOWAS crisis - SPORTS to the rescue. On behalf of all Nigerians, I salute you, sir. In the year 2002, I was an emissary of former President Olusegun Obasanjo GCFR. I was head of a delegation that was...
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