The eve of this New Year has been a long and dark night. As we wake up to the miracle of dawn on a new day in a new year along the endless passage of time, Nigerians must deliberately choose,...
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AFCON 2021 – Under threat.
There is something about the next African Cup of Nations holding in two weeks’ time that does not snugly fit into my spirit. To start with, AFCON 2021 will be taking place in January 2022. That’s the first anomaly. In...
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Eagles, pawns in the politics of Nigerian football.
Politics across Nigerian football will dominate the sports landscape starting from AFCON 2022. Politics in the game and its administration have, indeed, become a recurring decimal, like a groove in a broken vinyl record repeating the same ‘lyrics’ over and...
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‘Resurrecting’ the forgotten heroes of Nigerian Sports.
There is a chapter in Nigeria’s sports history that must never be forgotten. Indeed, it must now be resurrected. I urge all my readers to take special note of the name, Idorenyin Uyoe. It is the name of a Nigerian...
Featured, Sports Development
Matters-arising in Nigerian sports – a mixed grill!
Nigerian sport is on break. With the seeming lull in sporting activities across the land, that’s what it looks like. Covid-19 is not going away and not helping matters, at all. Aside that, the global environment is pregnant with despairing...
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Next Super Eagles coach – this mumu must stop, now!
Forgive my seeming enragement in this piece. The matter of Gernot Rohr, the German coach of Nigeria’s national football team, the Super Eagles, must have been finally rested. Most Nigerians are in an unwritten agreement that the man must just...
Featured, Sports Development
National Youth Games – catalyst of Grassroots Sports!
This is a true story. It happened to me this past week. Whilst thousands of children, boys and girls, from all over the country were assembled in Ilorin for the National Youth Games, I was trying to play tennis in...
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Who is in charge of Nigeria’s national sports teams?
Take away the freebies from the international engagements of national sports teams and see the restoration of sanity into Nigerian sports administration, accountability in funding, less crisis and fair process in the elections in sports federations, and focus on development...
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Terrible advertisement for Super Eagles!
I was half way through writing this week’s article titled ‘the Reality and the Fallacy in Nigerian Sports’ when I paused to watch the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying group match between Nigeria and Central African Republic, CAR, played in Lagos, Nigeria,...
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Nigerian at 61. Sports on a cliff – to plunge to death, or to learn to fly!
It is early morning of Friday, October 1, 2021. It is the 61st anniversary of Nigeria’s Independence. It is a public holiday when all Nigerians are expected to celebrate their ‘liberation’ from the shackles of colonial rule, the start of self-governance...
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