I am writing this on Thursday night.I have just read Osifo Onome-Whiskey’s message to me, a reaction to my article last week. Onome, the maverick journalist, one of the founders of Tell Magazine, the masters of investigative journalism in Nigeria...

A few days into the month of November, my mind is set on my late friend, African/American legendary athlete and international coach, Lee Edward Evans. I have told his incredible story many times before. I cannot tire of doing so...

This weekend, the All Blacks of New Zealand and the Springsboks of South Africa will meet to settle their scores at the final match of the 2023 Rugby World Cup in Paris, France. The match is significant in too many...

It is the morning of July 29, 2023. I am at the Nigeria Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, in Lagos, Nigeria. It is a wet, cool and calm morning, and as I drive into the premises it is empty of...

It happened on Thursday night at the Yar Adua Conference centre, Abuja. Some of the most outstanding athletes in Nigeria's Olympic sports in the past six decades (therefore all Olympians), assembled for a special bi-annual re-union organised to remind their...

It is a sad day and a sadder period for sports in Nigeria. A few days ago, Jeremiah Okorodudu, a famous Nigerian boxer, probably the most flamboyant and loquacious boxer in the country’s boxing history, died in a private hospital...