Permit me to apologise once again to all those that make this column part of their weekend diet, for not filling this space last weekend. Let me make a confession. For the first time in many years, I have not...
Analysis, Sports Development
SOCA – the school of sports excellence!
Two very significant things happened in my life in the year 2005. The first is that I went to the United States of America to participate in my first World Scholar-Athletes games, an assembly of secondary school pupils from over...
Sports Development
America on my mind!
I was missing on this page last week. It is because my family and I have been on vacation in America. Unfortunately, last week, things did not work out as I had thought they would. I completely miscalculated the time...
Featured, Football
Why Cameroons must fall!
These are not the best of times for Nigerian football and for those in the business in Nigeria. Since the end of the last World Cup in Brazil, the football industry has been in famine. The reason is simple –...
Featured, Sports Development
The Ghost of Hayatou resurrects in Rabat!
Issa Hayatou has resurrected in Morocco at the CAF Executive Committee meeting taking place in the city of Rabat. This time around, instead of haunting all his opponents as was the case for the many decades of his endless, autocratic...
Analysis, Sports Development
Football, business and government.
Football clubs, business and government are on my mind. Many people, even within the sports sector, have been advocating that for the sports industry and sports to grow in Nigeria, States and the Federal governments must hands-off the running of...
Football, Sports Development
Remembering Mudashiru Lawal.
This past week marks the 26th anniversary of the transition of Mudashiru Babatunde Tiamiyu Lawal. How time flies. The world has just moved on unperturbed, not missing a beat, not even for Muda, a true African football legend, one of...
Analysis, Football
The FIFA Confederations Cup – Cameroon and Germany!
I have been following the FIFA confederation cup matches in Russia with interest since it started. My main focus has been Cameroon and Germany. I guess my interest in the Cameroon national team is understandable. Nigeria and the Cameroon will...
Football, Sports Development
Eagles –this time truly beaten!
Last Saturday in Uyo, something went very wrong for Nigeria’s Super Eagles, and very right for South Africa’s Bafana Bafana. Whilst Nigerians were stunned into a state of disbelief by the pedestrian performance of their national team, South Africans were...
Football
‘Do or Die’ in Uyo for Super Eagles!
Let us face the facts, at this point in the development of African football, Nigeria, is not a country that should miss out on any edition of the African Cup of Nations. As giants of Africa in many facets of...
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