On Tuesday March 29, 2022, the ‘plane’ taking the Super Eagles to Qatar 2022 crash-landed on the tarmac of the Moshood Abiola International Stadium, Abuja. It was both fatal and catastrophic in the wake of some tragic events following the...
Featured
Matters arising – issues in Nigerian Sports. Football and the Supreme Court.
So, everyone now agrees that some issues in football matters can be taken to a civil court and can be settled there. And that FIFA will not come down from their ‘heaven’ and ban the country. Noted for future reference....
Politics
Russian Invasion of Ukraine – Sport for Peace, not Punishment!
Until two weeks ago, Europe was the preferred destination for migrants from most parts of the world, especially Africans. It was considered the best part of the world to live and to work. Hence the ceaseless global migration to the...
Featured
Conversations, Olusegun Obasanjo, Lee Evans, Sunny Ojeagbase, Fabio Lanipekun – all in one ‘crazy’ week!
I could not write my column in the newspapers last weekend because the week was ‘crazy’. The first in the series of ‘The Conversations’ at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, was held. It was a resounding success that...
Featured, Sports Development
Sports and Diplomacy will unite Africa!
Generally, the conception is that Sport and Politics do not mix. No country in the world wants to disrupt the sanctity of sport. So, as much as humanly possible humans avoid the incursion of politics into man’s greatest social activity. ...
AFCON 2021, Football
Memorable Moments of AFCON 2021
AFCON 2021 has come and gone. Memories linger on. It was a great festival and a true celebration of the best of African football. It had plenty of colour, culture, excitement, suspense, drama and pure entertainment. It was a great...
AFCON 2021, Featured, Football
Salah Versus Mane!
The African Cup of Nations, Africa’s most prestigious football competition, has finally arrived the global stage of recognition. The continent earned it in three weeks of a great football feast, putting on display the full array of African football...
AFCON 2021, Football
Super Eagles – What next?
The exit of the Super Eagles from AFCON 2021 has surely been painful. But the pain is definitely not deep enough to warrant Ayo Odumade’s reaction in an SMS message he sent to me: “Still very raw and hard to...
AFCON 2021, Featured, Football
A tale of two countries – between Nigeria and Ghana!
If I were the person in charge of sports in Nigeria I would instigate the banishment to Sambisa Forest of any football administrator that dares to suggest that the country imports another foreign coach to handle any of the country’s...
Featured, Football
AFCON 2021 – the Shame and the Pride!
The Shame Can you believe that some National Federation Presidents in Africa were part of a plot behind the scenes to have the African Cup of Nations Championship, AFCON, cancelled for no reason at all beyond obeying their ‘master’s’ bidding?...
Latest Comments