A few days ago, a new coach was hired for the Super Eagles, the national football team of Nigeria. Under normal circumstances, it would be considered too soon to start any controversial discourse on the man. However, the shrouded process...
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The world has not ended!
Last week, the world was going to end! Or so we thought. Why? When the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris concluded without any of the 82 Nigerian athletes returning with a medal around their necks, Nigerians were infuriated. They...
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Beyond the medals – a different look at Paris 2024!
Cacophony fills the Nigerian sports space. From the ashes of the country’s participation at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games springs the shrill of anger and condemnation. In the past one week, Nigerians have collectively vented their anger and frustration at...
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Beyond Paris ’24 – Nigeria, at the edge…..of greatness!
I am writing this on Friday morning to meet production deadline. Truth be told, as we approach the finish line of Paris 2024, Nigeria’s name is nowhere near the top of the final medals table. Of course, Nigeria is not...
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Rousing the ‘Sleeping Giant’ at Half-time of Paris 2024!
It is half-time at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Besides been different in a lot of ways, Paris 2024 has been an eye-opener for me. I thought I knew everything about the Olympic Games, having been actively involved (directly or indirectly) in all the...
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Between Paris, the Olympic Games and I
I am in London, hopefully on my way, in the next few days, to Paris, the host city of the 2024 Olympiad. I am very excited about visiting Paris again after two previous experiences that are significant chapters in my...
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How a minister aborted the most ambitious Grassroots Sports Development program in Nigeria’s history.
On the eve of another Olympic Games, I invite the reader of this page to join me and shed their own tears. Believe it or not, when Dr. Ebele Goodluck Jonathan , GCFR, was President of Nigeria, he approved the establishment of...
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Sport – uniting the Black race!
When I started an FM radio station two years ago sited in a town so small on the map of the world that it almost does not exist, it was such an ‘insignificant’ step in the course of humanity that...
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The return of the Flying Antelopes
Elephants do not fly. That’s why I often wondered why Rangers International Football Club of Enugu are nicknamed ‘the Flying Elephants’. I know the genesis of the name ‘Rangers’. It is a deadly and destructive cannon used by Biafran soldiers...
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Nigerian football – a slightly different perspective!
These are sad times in Nigerian football. The events of the past two weeks have opened up a can of worms, plus the opportunity of a microscopic look beyond the superficiality of the incomprehensible drama. There is ‘madness’ in the...
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