Football is, probably, the most powerful and most followed human activity on earth. For many of its adherents to jointly conclude that one person is probably the greatest football player of all time cannot be considered flimsy or a mean...
Will the world end if Rohr is sacked?
In the aftermath of the two matches between the Leone Stars and the Super Eagles I have refused to make any comments. I have been besieged with questions about why I have remained silent. I am surprised that people are surprised that I...
Ghana-Nigeria Sports Festival – reviving the big dream!
If you are not a dreamer like me, feel free to stop reading this now. This is one of those days that I play games with my mind, let my imagination run wild and dream ‘crazy’ ideas. I am dreaming...
Nigerian sports in 2030 – Jamaica shows the way!
I was jolted by a friend’s short message last weekend. He had read ‘My message to Nigerian youths – Gene and Geography’. He decided that the article needed a response which he delivered in a rather scathing, rhetorical statement pregnant...
Message for Nigerian Youths – Gene and Geography!
For a period of 4 years, I was an athletes’ representative, registered with the Athletics Federation of Nigeria as well as the IAAF. I had 4 athletes in my management stable. I never actually got to work with Innocent Asonze...
National protests – A sports revolution may be afoot too!
At evening, like the sun dipping suddenly in the horizon, an unusual situation has taken Nigeria by storm and complete surprise. Civil protests have been spontaneous and widespread. I am not sure anyone knows who the leaders or the organisers...
Resetting the button of sports development in Nigeria.
I am still in Independence Day mood. It is the first week into the start of the next chapter in the story of a country called Nigeria. Let us project and call it ‘Nigeria in 2080’, a peep into the future....
Nigeria, marking 60, and celebrating hope!
On the 60th Independence anniversary of the World’s most populous Black and African country, there is one thing most Nigerians are in agreement with – things are not very well with the state of the country. Given Nigeria’s huge resources and capacity,...
Sport – slavery for local athletes in Nigeria! (Part 2)
I was a member of the Professional Football Implementation Committee that developed and established the policies and the structures for the take-off and running of the professional league in Nigeria. The committee designed a business template for football that other...
Sport – slavery for local athletes in Nigeria!
Sport is presently slave labour in Nigeria. Without exaggerating, and I am asserting with all sense of responsibility, most athletes in the Nigerian domestic sport landscape are living in poverty. The evidence is all around us in the level of...
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