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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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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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Boko haram and the Borno-5
I have repeated this tale several times in the past. I shall not tire of recounting it because of its significance. It is a powerful message for governments. It is a true-life story that took place when the current Vice-President...
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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...
AFCON 2025, Football
Who wins AFCON 2025?
The bell tolls already. From December 21, 2025 to January 18, 2026, the world will be treated to the best of African football, once again. My immediate feeling is that Nigeria can win AFCON 2025, but the Super Eagles will...
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