Ordinarily, this should not be headline news, that a football club has returned to the Premiership of Nigerian football. Except of course, if there is more to the club or the circumstances of the club’s return than meets the eye....
Featured, General
A Tribute to President Shehu Shagari
Amongst the football fraternity of our time, he was a very good, simple, humble and generous leader. We loved him. Let me tell you why. To start with, it will be a great disservice not to pay a special tribute...
Featured, General, Politics
This world will ‘end’ in 2030!
I wish all my readers a Happy New Year. I am happy to predict that the world, the way we know it now, a global system that has been deliberately designed and constructed in such a way that the Black...
Featured, General
My unusual journey – Life after Sports!
I have just been appointed a member of an Advisory Board of a new body in Nigeria with a self-defining name – Exercise is Medicine. Exercise is Medicine is an agency of the American College of Sports Medicine. The Nigerian...
Featured, Sports Development
The National Sports Festival – Nigeria’s mini-Olympic Games!
A few days ago, the National Sports Festival began in Abuja. It happened without a whimper.On the opening day, the stadium was empty of spectators, the programs did not run smoothly, the lights in the stadium went out during the...
Football, Politics
The Super Falcons – Best African Women’s team ever!
The Super Falcons are at it again.They are about to extend history today when they take on the only team to have dented their record during this outgoing season of the Women’s African Cup of Nations Championship, AFCON, rounding off in Ghana today. South...
Football
When shall the Eagles be Kings of Africa again?
The Super Eagles regained some respect in African football last weekend. They drew with Bafana Bafana in Johannesburg. They had lost in their first-leg encounter in Nigeria a long time ago. Since the disappointment of not going beyond the first round (like all the...
Featured, Football
Rangers International FC – more than a Football Club
Last week I received an avalanche of reactions to what I wrote about my team and team mates in Shooting Stars International Football Club in 1976, when, as a key member of that team, we became the first club in...
Featured, Football, Sports Development
An evening with Amaju Pinnick!
Last Thursday night, Amaju Pinnick was initially a reluctant guest on The Sports Parliament, a weekly television show that I anchor on NTA alongside sports gurus drawn from a pool of 18 members that constitute the parliament. By the time the...
Featured, Football
Where are they now – the history-making 1976 Shooting Stars squad?
2018 must be the ‘fastest’ year in history.It has gone like a breeze.I can’t believe it is November already.Was it not yesterday that we had the New Year celebrations, and were looking far ahead as if December is a lifetime...
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