It is the day after the day after the day after AFCON 2023 ended. For some altruistic reason, far from how the generality of Nigerians felt, I believed, even before the championship started, that Nigeria’s chances of winning it were...
AFCON 2023
Angola – thorn in the flesh?
I do not like football matches against Angola. Since that fateful day of August 19, 1989, at the national stadium in Lagos, when a match ended tragically with the death of Nigeria’s great and gifted midfield ‘general’ Samuel Okwaraji, I...
AFCON 2023, Football
Between the Eagle and the Lion – who wins tonight?
The stage is set for ‘War’. Between Nigeria’s Super Eagles and the AFCON Gold trophy of 2023 stands an old formidable foe. They respect Nigerian players, but not Nigerian football. They always think the football in their country is of...
AFCON 2023, Featured
AFCON 2023 Special Report: Eagles – One small step, a giant leap to the Championship!
It was only one match, but it moved Nigeria several notches up the rung of victory at AFCON 2023. The match against Cote D’Ivoire confirmed the often-held notion that a potential Champion can be identified when a team is able...
AFCON 2023, Featured
AFCON 2023 begins!
For the next 4 weeks, this page will be dedicated to special reports on the African Cup of Nations, AFCON 2023. The biggest and most followed single sports event on the African continent kicks off in the next 24 hours...
Featured, Football
AFCON ’23 on my mind.
I wish everyone on the planet a very Happy New Year. 2023 was a year marked by crisis around the world. Existential threats hung like an Albatross over humanity as tensions and tempers rose in several parts of the world....
Featured, Football
The Exit of an unusual Eagle – Philip Boamah!
Except you are a die-hard football fan, a serious documenter of Nigeria’s football history, and above 50 years of age, it is most unlikely that you would know much about a name known in Ibadan football circles as Etu (Yoruba...
Featured, Football
The ‘return’ of Tony Igwe – ‘World 2’ !
Who is the greatest right-full back in the history of Nigerian football?About a year ago, I asked football fans the question above, and conducted a small poll to get an answer. The response from Chief Dele Adetiba, a veteran journalist,...
Featured, Football
To sack Jose Paseiro, or not!
A friend, a foremost sports journalist, called me up last week from Abuja to inform me that he was racing to the office of the Minister of Sports to inform him of his decision to lead a national campaign to...
Featured, Football
Between the posts – Nigeria’s weakest link! Between Best Ogedegbe, Francis Uzoho and Amas Obasogie!
Two days ago, the Super Eagles of Nigeria played against the Crocodiles of Lesotho. Ordinarily that should not take centre-stage in any sports conversation this weekend, beyond reporting the anticipated ‘massacre’ of the minnows from the Southern part of Africa....
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