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...
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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. ...
AFCON 2021, Featured, Football
Salah Versus Mane!
The African Cup of Nations, Africa’s most prestigious football competition, has finally arrived the global stage of recognition. The continent earned it in three weeks of a great football feast, putting on display the full array of African football...
AFCON 2021, Featured, Football
A tale of two countries – between Nigeria and Ghana!
If I were the person in charge of sports in Nigeria I would instigate the banishment to Sambisa Forest of any football administrator that dares to suggest that the country imports another foreign coach to handle any of the country’s...
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