Nigerians are tired and frustrated with the unending crisis in some national Sports Federations. The particular case of the Nigeria Basketball Federation has compounded the situation as the Ministry of Youth and Sports, frustrated by the endless crisis, took a desperate decision that appears to have...
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Analysis, Sports Development
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...
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...
Analysis, Sports Development
Resetting the button of sports development in Nigeria.
I am still in Independence Day mood. It is the first week into the start of the next chapter in the story of a country called Nigeria. Let us project and call it ‘Nigeria in 2080’, a peep into the future....
Analysis, Featured
Sports in Nigeria in 2019.
Goodbye 2019. Welcome, 2020. I am not the best person to do a proper forensic on sports in Nigeria in the outgoing year. I may be biased. It has also been very difficult seeing through the avalanche of crisis that...
Analysis, Football
New targets – Champions of Africa and Semi-finalists of World Cup!
There are several matters that have arisen from the debris of my columns of the past two weeks. I have received more responses to them in one week than I did since the start of the year. They seem to...
Analysis, Football
I cannot, and shall not, celebrate this Bronze!
I am an Olympian to the core. I went to two Olympics. The first was boycotted at the last minute by African countries. At the second, I was Nigeria’s flag bearer, overall captain of the contingent as well as captain of the...
Analysis, Football
The ‘Mortal’ sin of Gernot Rohr
Thank God I am not in charge of Nigerian football. If I was, Gernot Rohr would either be history by now or (depending on the content of his contract) be sitting out the rest of the AFCON championship from the...
Analysis, Football, Sports Development
FIFA, Football and Civil Courts!
Am I the only one thinking this way?There is something not quite clear about the issue of whether some football matters can be taken to a civil court or not.Nigeria has been threatened several times with a ban because certain...
Analysis, Featured
Sports, politics, Professor Wole Soyinka, George Weah and Ogun State!
The title of this piece is not designed to mislead or confuse. It is the best way I am able to capture in a few words the many different thoughts and persons connected to one another in my mind. Everyone knows that Professor Wole...
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