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...
Featured, Football
The Rashidi Yekini monologue – an exclusive conversation from Beyond! (Part 1)
(This conversation took place some 24 years ago. It was never published in print. Rashidi returned forcefully into my life last week in a most bizarre circumstance. I believe he wanted his memory to be kept alive. Hence this, transcribed...
Featured, Football
Rashidi Yekini Speaks from Beyond
I had an unusual conversation with Rashidi Yekini last Wednesday in my office in Yaba, Lagos. Of course, everyone knows that the greatest goal scorer in the history of Nigerian football rests in peace with his Creator. So, the circumstances...
Analysis, Sports Development
My adventure into the world of the Sports media.
I have an uncommon relationship with sports media. I must tell the story again for the benefit of thousands of young Nigerian boys and girls in school (or even out of school) that may be interested in having a go...
General, Sports Development
The youths have the power to change Nigeria!
I am a worried man. I love Nigeria and Nigerians with all my heart and might. That’s, why I am very worried about the state of both of them. At the start of the year, I celebrated lavishly because I...
Football
Again, the power of sport to impact the world!
I run the risk of sounding like a broken record and repeating myself from last week. A happy New Year to all. One day soon in the future the world will wake up from its leisurely slumber and start to...
Football, Sports Development
Sports and Politics – George Weah breaks the barrier!
My wish and prayer are that the New Year brings happy times to all the readers of this column. The tail end of 2017 has come with one truly terrific development for sports. George Opong Weah, the first African to...
Featured, Sports Development
Basketball and Football – in the woods!
There have been two very significant developments in Nigerian sports this past week. The first is that November 30, 2017, came and went and the world did not end! The second is that Nigeria escaped by a hair’s breadth what...
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