History is a very important subject.A people that wants to make rapid progress in development must take useful lessons from the pages of their history, using previous experiences as a compass into the labyrinthian complexities of uncharted territory that the...
Analysis, Featured, Football
Re-restructuring Nigerian football administration
The State Football Associations are one member in the Nigeria Football Association structure, not 37 different members. It is surely a bitter pill for these major actors currently dominating football administration in Nigeria to swallow, but they must do so...
Featured, Football
Why Nigeria, not Ghana, must be in Qatar – message from Idorenyi Uyoe!
I am writing this on Thursday night. I have to do so in order to meet editorial and production deadlines. I should naturally be writing about the ‘Big Matches’, the two World Cup qualifiers between Ghana and Nigeria, (one came...
Sports Development
Nigerian Basketball Federation crisis – One election, two faulty constitutions!
Permit me to bore my readers again today. This is very technical stuff that does not make interesting reading. Yet, it speaks to the heart of the current crisis in the Nigerian Basketball Federation. It is also an early warning...
Featured, General
Lee Evans must not die!
The above is the title of my broadcast on social media two days ago. I am repeating it here only as a guide to what has developed since then. The article generated global interest except in the sports fraternity in...
Featured, Football
Who owns the Super Eagles – the NFF or the Government?
That is a million-Dollar question. When Bill Clinton was President of the USA and he visited Nigeria for the very first time, one of his very first comments was to ask about the great Super Eagles of Nigeria. Global recognition...
Featured, Football
The many parts of Amaju Pinnick!
Let me join all Nigerians to congratulate Mr. Melvin Amaju Pinnick, the current President of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, for his amazing victory at last week's elections for a seat on the exalted Executive Committee of FIFA. To many...
Featured, Football
79 Happy cheers for the encyclopedia of Nigerian Sports.
1989. It was an encounter of the rarest kind. You just do not get to meet with 3 of the greatest sportscasters in Nigerian history in one place, for an entire week, talking food, family and football. It rarely happens...
Featured, General
After 7 years, Lee finds Justice in a Nigerian Court!
As the sun of 2020 begins to set, some of us have started to see the faint outlines of a better and more prosperous new year ahead. There are several small but significant last-minute incidents that are happening around us...
Featured, Football
The 2-years of Limbo in Nigerian sports development!
There is a very important two-year lacuna in Nigeria’s sports development structure that requires a little forensic probing. In the past, we often spoke of the efficacy of the grassroots architecture of Nigerian sports, how we evolved through the school...
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