Category: Eye on Tokyo

A certain Nigerian athlete is on my mind. She was billed to win, but she lost in her event. She worked extremely hard. She is funded and adopted by a powerful and well-respected spiritual leader. She has been a model...

The end has come. Too soon, and finally, Nigeria can count its medals' haul from Tokyo 2020 - 1 Silver and 1 Bronze. Obviously the number does not look as impressive as most of the performances by the athletes. 'The...

It is a sad day in the Nigerian camp for several reasons. In every room in the Olympic Village or the various hotel rooms where Team Nigeria officials are staying in the city of Tokyo, there is some lamentation. To...

I count myself lucky to have been alive to watch some of the most dramatic moments of the most memorable Olympic Games of the past half a Century, at least, yesterday.  There have been several such moments during Tokyo 2020,...

There is greater honour in participating at the Olympics than in winning. The Nigerian will tell you to go sell that to the American Marines. He will also tell you that the Olympic mantra, appropriately coined at the birth of...

There is a deafening silence in the Nigerian camp here in Tokyo. The number of Nigerian athletes has dwindled significantly. How the athletes that leave or stay on in the Games Village are selected is still unclear. There are a...

A few days ago, 'The Eye' saw smoke approaching the Nigerian camp from a distance and screamed: 'fire on the mountain'. A day later, it saw dark clouds approaching the camp again and alerted all Nigerians of an impending 'storm'....

'The Eye on Tokyo 2020' is perched on an invisible drone in the ceiling of Room XYZ, at the Grand Prince Hotel, New Takanawa, in downtown Tokyo. This is where Chief Sunday Dare, Nigeria's Minister for Youth and Sports is staying...

There is fire on the mountain in Tokyo 2020.  There should actually be a lot of confusion ongoing in the camps of athletes in Track and Field and Table Tennis here in Tokyo. With table tennis, why would Quadri Aruna play...

It finally happened. No, The Eye did not have a conversation with the Honourable Minister of Sports, Chief Sunday Dare. What happened was much more than that. You have to read this to the end to understand. It was Tuesday,...