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...
Featured, Football
Remembering Rashidi Yekini at 55!
Some 6 years ago ‘Gangling’ was ‘murdered’ by careless family members. The circumstances of the untimely death, on 5thof May 2012, of legendary Nigerian football star, Rashidi Yekini, remain a mystery leaving a lingering sour taste in the mouth. The story of that...
Featured, Football
One Gold, Two Silver medals at Youth Olympics – a test of our credibility!
Nigerian athletes just returned from the 4th edition of the World Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They returned with 3 medals – One Gold and two Silver medals. I join all Nigerians in commending the young athletes as they provide a...
Featured, Football
Super Eagles – start of a new era!
The Super Eagles are back. Nigeria’s greatest image-makers and international brand ambassadors are back again.This weekend the Super Eagles resume their African Cup of Nations 2019 qualifier campaign in the city of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.A new look national team led by Ahmed Musa,...
Featured, Lecture paper, Politics, Sports Development
Dr Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia – My Father, My Mentor, My Hero!
In my life, once again, I discovered that everything is connected. That life is like a jigsaw puzzle. I was in Abuja early this week. I was invited to the 2ndMemorial lecture for late Dr Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudiaheld at the University of...
Analysis, Football, Sports Development
FIFA, Football and Civil Courts!
Am I the only one thinking this way?There is something not quite clear about the issue of whether some football matters can be taken to a civil court or not.Nigeria has been threatened several times with a ban because certain...
Featured, General, Sports Development
Reminiscences – Alan Hawkes and Lee Evans.
Permit me to tell you about two foreigners that played very significant roles in my career in football.I do not expect that many younger people will know, or even remember them.The first is my first contact with a foreign coach.Playing...
Featured, General
Sports and Education– keys to the kingdom of the youths!
It is the little things that matter the most in life. Attention to the small details changes lives and makes the biggest difference. Two of late Nelson Mandela’s greatest quotes come to mind. The first is:‘Education is the most powerful...
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