I could not write my column in the newspapers last weekend because the week was ‘crazy’. The first in the series of ‘The Conversations’ at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, was held. It was a resounding success that...
Featured, Sports Development
Sports and Diplomacy will unite Africa!
Generally, the conception is that Sport and Politics do not mix. No country in the world wants to disrupt the sanctity of sport. So, as much as humanly possible humans avoid the incursion of politics into man’s greatest social activity. ...
AFCON 2021, Football
Memorable Moments of AFCON 2021
AFCON 2021 has come and gone. Memories linger on. It was a great festival and a true celebration of the best of African football. It had plenty of colour, culture, excitement, suspense, drama and pure entertainment. It was a great...
AFCON 2021, Featured, Football
Salah Versus Mane!
The African Cup of Nations, Africa’s most prestigious football competition, has finally arrived the global stage of recognition. The continent earned it in three weeks of a great football feast, putting on display the full array of African football...
AFCON 2021, Football
Super Eagles – What next?
The exit of the Super Eagles from AFCON 2021 has surely been painful. But the pain is definitely not deep enough to warrant Ayo Odumade’s reaction in an SMS message he sent to me: “Still very raw and hard to...
AFCON 2021, Featured, Football
A tale of two countries – between Nigeria and Ghana!
If I were the person in charge of sports in Nigeria I would instigate the banishment to Sambisa Forest of any football administrator that dares to suggest that the country imports another foreign coach to handle any of the country’s...
Featured, Football
AFCON 2021 – the Shame and the Pride!
The Shame Can you believe that some National Federation Presidents in Africa were part of a plot behind the scenes to have the African Cup of Nations Championship, AFCON, cancelled for no reason at all beyond obeying their ‘master’s’ bidding?...
Featured, Football
Nigeria at AFCON.
3 days to the start of AFCON 2021, there is hardly any Nigerian that expects that the Super Eagles will not get to the tail end of the championship. Such a high expectation is justified. Nigeria can be counted amongst one...
Featured, Football
2022 – Feasting on hope for Nigerian Sports.
The eve of this New Year has been a long and dark night. As we wake up to the miracle of dawn on a new day in a new year along the endless passage of time, Nigerians must deliberately choose,...
Featured, Football
AFCON 2021 – Under threat.
There is something about the next African Cup of Nations holding in two weeks’ time that does not snugly fit into my spirit. To start with, AFCON 2021 will be taking place in January 2022. That’s the first anomaly. In...
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