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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Fatai Amao and the 2030 World Cup!
I read this morning that Fatai Amao, ‘Arsenal’, one of the most brilliant midfielders of his generation in the 1980s, a player who, with his silky touches on the ball and immaculate dribbling skills, could have played for any club in...
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Nigeria’s retired athletes – their own worst enemies!
I am a member of a WhatsApp group set up by athletes (footballers). It may have the largest membership of all the groups that I know. The membership is easily in hundreds, I believe, and continues to increase on a...
Featured, Football
Making the rest of 2020 the Year of the Football Field!
The best football stadium in Nigeria today is probably the new, state-of-the-art, magnificent edifice in Akwa Ibom State, the Uyo Township Stadium. It may also have the best football playing surface of lush, flat and green grass. I have actually watched...
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Kobe Bryant – a humble tribute.
In the past few weeks I have had to ask myself some very pertinent questions about life, the answer to which is to be humble, grateful and appreciative of the little things in life, particularly the little time we all...
Featured, Football
Nigeria – converting past failures to future success in 2020!
A Happy New Year to all the readers of this column. For some reason the year 2020, a leap year I am told, has come with a feel-good aura of hope. I like the symmetry – 20, 20. I also...
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FREETOWN here I come!
This may be stranger than fiction. You cannot believe where I am as I write this. I am sitting at the SAHCOL airport VIP lounge at the Murtala Muhammed International airport in Lagos, waiting to board an airline I heard...
Featured, Politics
My Political Diary – Day 45
It is Friday. The world must be wondering what the contestants is these hotly contested elections in Ogun State must be doing on the eve of their greatest political challenge. Time is running at 1000 kilometres per hour now. I...
Featured, Politics, Sports Development
Open letter to the Sports Constituency!
My dear Friends in Sports, Some months ago, I took a major step that you all are likely to be aware of. I joined the train of Nigerian politics. I understand the reaction of most of you in keeping a...
Featured, Football, Sports Development
The crisis in Nigerian football can be resolved in 48 hours!
Do you know that we have a national emergency situation in Nigerian football?Do you know that the situation is so precarious that the security of the entire country could be jeopardized?Can’t people see what I see from my little observatory...
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