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...
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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...
Analysis, Sports Development
Nigerian heroes of the Winter Olympics!
For a few weeks, before and during the 2018 Winter Olympics, Nigeria was a hot subject in the global media. The reason was the audacious decision of four Nigerian female athletes based in the United States of America to take...
Analysis, Sports Development
My adventure into the world of the Sports media.
I have an uncommon relationship with sports media. I must tell the story again for the benefit of thousands of young Nigerian boys and girls in school (or even out of school) that may be interested in having a go...
Analysis, Featured, Football
Super Eagles – the black man’s burden, responsibility and hope!
I am not racist in any form or shape. There isn’t even an atom of it in my DNA. Unfortunately, I also now understand clearly that as a black man I belong to a specie that has probably always been...
Analysis, Sports Development
SOCA – the school of sports excellence!
Two very significant things happened in my life in the year 2005. The first is that I went to the United States of America to participate in my first World Scholar-Athletes games, an assembly of secondary school pupils from over...
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