Football is not described as ‘the Beautiful game’ for nothing. In Qatar, it has thrown up everything that is beautiful about the game – drama, shocks, suspense, surprises, tears (of joy and of defeat) and football of every hue, from...

I am watching the ongoing matches in Qatar but all I am thinking about is my country, Nigeria. As I am writing this, the last of the African teams, Ghana, just played their first match and lost against one of...

This is not a joke. I am in Accra, Ghana, as I write this. I am under the influence of divine inspiration of some sort. I am about to undertake an ‘impossible’ mission - return to the football field. The...

I salute the newly elected President of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, for surviving the hurdles that stood in his path at the elections that almost did not hold following the abracadabra of court orders, an old tactic that once...

I am writing this on Thursday night. I have just read the press release by the Chairman of the Electoral Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF. By the way, the NFF is a parastatal of the Federal Government of...

I am writing on this issue again out of a sense of responsibility to the game that has dominated my activities through most of my years on earth. I believe that if the elections into the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF,...

The Election for the office of President of the Nigeria Football Federation has gripped the imagination and attention of Nigerians. A meeting of the General Assembly of the federation has never attracted as much national attention as it did these...