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...
Featured, Football
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....
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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...
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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A happy New year to all!
Philosophical Musings In Nigeria, life has been extremely difficult for most. Managing the challenges in the land is an arduous task for everyone. Yet, the people survive and even thrive, ending the year 2024 cushioned by the hope of a...
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