I urge everyone reading this to patiently allow the juices of their imagination, creativity and audacity to flow. Imagine an event somewhere in Africa, or the Caribbeans, that holds every few years. All the countries in Africa, as well as...
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Adekunle Awesu, the left-footed genius ‘resurrects’!
Any one born after 1978 may not have heard, or may not know about Adekunle Awesu and may choose to read this out of curiosity, or out of the prospect of informative value, or because I am suggesting they do...
Featured, Football
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...
Featured, Football
Reconnecting with the great Dodo Mayana!
I do not know the genesis of the nickname. I once asked him when we went out to shop together in a local market in the heart of Tunis during the 1994 African Cup of Nations championship. I do not...
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...
Featured, Football
Nigerian Football – rising from the debris of Qatar 2022.
I am drawing inspiration from the fountain of philosophy. ‘Curse not the darkness, for underneath it are hidden treasures’. The above is not an exact quote. I have added my words to a quote whose origin I do...
Featured, Football
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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Matters arising – issues in Nigerian Sports. Football and the Supreme Court.
So, everyone now agrees that some issues in football matters can be taken to a civil court and can be settled there. And that FIFA will not come down from their ‘heaven’ and ban the country. Noted for future reference....
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Conversations, Olusegun Obasanjo, Lee Evans, Sunny Ojeagbase, Fabio Lanipekun – all in one ‘crazy’ week!
I could not write my column in the newspapers last weekend because the week was ‘crazy’. The first in the series of ‘The Conversations’ at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, was held. It was a resounding success that...
Featured, Sports Development
Sports and Diplomacy will unite Africa!
Generally, the conception is that Sport and Politics do not mix. No country in the world wants to disrupt the sanctity of sport. So, as much as humanly possible humans avoid the incursion of politics into man’s greatest social activity. ...
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