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...
General, Politics
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...
Analysis, Sports Development
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....
Featured, Sports Development
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,...
Featured, Football
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...
Featured, Football
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...
Featured, Football
If I was the Minister of Sports….!
When you do not know where you are coming from, how would you know where you are going? You cannot chart a course to any destination as any movement in any direction will be groping in the darkness of uncertainty....
Football, Sports Development
The National Sports Commission – Back to the Future!
I am not a scholar of the subject of sport. The only authority I draw from on the subject is my personal experience. Delving into technical matters of sport in a newspaper column is often boring. The sports public do...
Football
Nigerian football grounds – the revolution may be here, at last!!!
The football ground is on my mind this day. I watched an under-reported news item on one of the television channels a few days ago that lifted my spirit. Our football may be about to enter a new and exciting...
General
The National Sports Industry Policy – lessons from Adenuga and Ogbemudia!
I admit that I have not read the entirety of the draft of the proposed new National Sports Industry Policy. I admit also that it is not always easy for me these days to read technical documents, not to talk of...
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