As far as I can recall, it has never happened quite like this in Nigeria’s sports history. I mean, for stakeholders (not all of them though, admittedly) to come together at the end of the tenure of a Sports minister...
Kashim Shettima, Sports, and Boko Haram, an unscripted encounter!
I know Kashim Shettima, the Vice-President elect of Nigeria, but not well enough to say much about him beyond my single physical encounter with the man, and a few telephone calls later, in the course of a story that must...
Allen Onyema – Sports and Diplomacy Hero of the Century!
I wake up to pen my weekly contribution to national sports discourse, and I am confronted with very unpleasant reports of an event that took place in Owerri the day before, far from any sports field or sports event, but...
Qatar 2022, the week after, and the next World Cup!
It has been one week since the end of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. World Cup finals have usually been drab. The fear of losing the final match makes coaches to be too tactical, and the players under the pressure...
A new Star is born!
There was celebration amongst the stars. It had been long in coming. For several years, a young Nigerian female athlete had been knocking on the door of success, to be let in. It was always so close it became only...
A painful death, a sweet victory and the FESTAC of Sports.
Last week, a great Nigerian patriot, lawyer, former football player, proprietor of a professional club in Canada, sports administrator, international businessman and supreme sports marketer, a quiet gentleman that brought Nike to Africa, and to Nigeria in 1993. A man...
Lessons from Gernot Rohr’s ingratitude to Nigeria.
Unfortunately, the subject of Gernot Rohr, once thought buried in our history, has resurrected forcefully again into the consciousness of Nigerians. This past week the Nigeria Football Federation was ordered by FIFA to pay the former coach of the Super...
The Military in Nigerian Sports – an unhealthy ‘divorce’.
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...
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...
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...
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