These are politically crazy times in Nigeria.Voluntarily, or not, everyone is involved in the unfolding drama.I am thinking. How can I use the World Cup as a metaphor, a tool to project a vision of change in Ogun State, where...
Football, Sports Development
Domestic Nigerian Football – the past and the present!
I am surely not making a deliberate comparison between the past and the present of domestic football in Nigeria. I am just telling a story. Time was when football in Nigeria was top of the list of social engagements at...
Featured, General, Sports Development
In the aftermath of the Commonwealth Games – A medal is not any medal!
This is one of those weeks for me. There is little happening around of great interest in our domestic sport. So, I spend more time groping in the dark for what to write in order to fill this page with...
Featured, General, Sports Development
Sport is life and life is sport!
The Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast of Australia is rounding off this weekend. Whilst the games have been a feast of sports they have also being a painful reminder of our country’s past as well as its current state....
Featured, Sports Development
The Commonwealth Games are not about Money or Medals but about participation!
The Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast 2018, have commenced in Australia. Some Nigerian athletes that should be there are not because officials say they are not medal hopefuls. And that only those with the prospect of winning their event should attend...
Featured, General
A special tribute to Our mother – Maami!
That’s what we all called her – Maami. We sometimes also called her mum, the English word for mother, even though she understood only two words of the English language. Despite that my siblings and I spoke the adulterated version,...
Featured, Football
The great Eagles of 1980 – 38 years after!
The ‘Chief Justice’ of Nigerian football, distinguished legal luminary and Member of the Order of the Niger, Chief Adokie Amiesimaka, was the one who called me up and reminded me it was 38 years to the day on March 22...
Featured, General
Tribute to our Mother.
Forgive me. This week I am applying my literary ‘license’ to pay another special tribute. Only a few days ago the world celebrated ‘Mother’s Day’, a day specially set aside globally to appreciate and honour the women in our lives...
Featured, Football
Chief Adegboye Onigbinde at 80 – My special tribute!
At the start, I did not like him at all. And I was not alone that did not like his face in Ibadan in those days in the 1970s when I first met him. Indeed, a whole army of supporters...
Analysis, Sports Development
Nigerian heroes of the Winter Olympics!
For a few weeks, before and during the 2018 Winter Olympics, Nigeria was a hot subject in the global media. The reason was the audacious decision of four Nigerian female athletes based in the United States of America to take...
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