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...
Featured, Football
Nigeria in the Group of Death or Group of Hope?
The die is now cast. Last Friday night the world witnessed the draws of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The entire event was so well choreographed that even the eventual draws turned out to represent every country’s interest and no...
Football, Politics
The day of the African Footballer to rule has come!
I am very excited and agitated at the same time. There is so much playing around my mind that I will really make an effort to make some sense of it all in this piece today. First, my excitement. In...
Analysis, Featured, Football
Super Eagles – the black man’s burden, responsibility and hope!
I am not racist in any form or shape. There isn’t even an atom of it in my DNA. Unfortunately, I also now understand clearly that as a black man I belong to a specie that has probably always been...
Football
The man who named me ‘Mathematical’ – Ernest Okonkwo
For some reason, his name is ringing again in the information superhighway. On a few platforms in social media, I have been reading tons of comments by Nigerians I cannot make out why his name has suddenly resurrected at this...
General, Lecture paper
The Story of The International Sports Academy!
On Thursday, November 9, 2017, it shall be 10 years since the Segun Odegbami International College and Sports Academy (SOCA) started operating as Nigeria’s first multi-sports, full-fletched, co-educational secondary school. On that day parents, family, friends, corporate Nigeria, the media,...
General, Lecture paper
Nigeria with artificial internal boundaries – football to the rescue!
This is the story of a young man called Babankura! He is a breath of fresh air. I am not so sure how old he is because when I met him he did not come with a birth certificate. He...
Football, Sports Development
World Cup funds – why no NFF President has ever won a second term!
Kayode Thomas is a very well known Nigerian journalist, irrepressible, courageous and hard working. Through the years I have followed his career from a distance. His candour is remarkable, frank to a fault and down to earth. He is not...
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