It is Thursday night. I am writing my article for the weekend. My phone keeps interrupting me. There is a flood of calls. I have always known, but now it dawns on me again, that I am the go-to person...
That the world may never forget…!
The world must never forget the month of June 1976. And it is not because in that month I was freshly minted as a graduate of Mechanical Engineering, travelled to Europe for the first time in my life, and achieved...
Gateway Games 2024 – My Man of the Games
The Gateway Games 2024 came to an end rather ‘suddenly’. To many people, and according to initial pre-games expectations, the 22nd National Sports Festival was to end on Friday, May 30th. That’s why, coming one day before, on Thursday, May...
Diary of One great week of Sports!
ABUJA Something big and exciting is happening in the city of Abuja. It is hard to tell if it is deliberate, accidental or incidental. Whatever it is, there is an undercurrent of new development in sports. All one needs to...
‘Sport has the power to change the world – how true?’
Last Wednesday, at the invitation of the Federal University Lokoja, I delivered the 15th Distinguished Public Lecture of the university. I am devoting my column this weekend to a slightly edited version of the presentation. When I received the invitation,...
Reparation for Nigerian athletes – Going to the civil court!
I am giving this matter very serious thought again. There have been massive reactions to my editorial last weekend titled ‘the plight of retired sports heroes’ published and read in various media. I am motivated to head to the civil...
Letter to Mr. President.
Your Excellency, ECOWAS crisis - SPORTS to the rescue. On behalf of all Nigerians, I salute you, sir. In the year 2002, I was an emissary of former President Olusegun Obasanjo GCFR. I was head of a delegation that was...
Ernest Okonkwo and the revival of Sports commentating!
My name is Seģun Odegbami. It is a popular name alright in Nigeria, but more people across the African continent know me as ‘Mathematical’, a nickname coined and gifted to me by a famous sports commentator, late Ernest Okonkwo, during...
Nigerian sports in 2025 – heading where no one has ever being.
2024 is about to drop into the archives of history. The year has had some significant moments and developments that provide a good indication of things to come in the New Year. On the eve of 2025, from my observatory...
AMGA 2024 – from Zero to Hero – General Christopher Musa!
By the time you are reading this, the final event at the 2nd African Military Games will be taking place. Soldier-athletes from the over-20 African countries that finally participated will be preparing to return home after the closing ceremonies this...
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