With gratitude to the Creator of the Universe, I have been very blessed. I am not a religious person in the classic sense of a person indoctrinated into certain strict beliefs and practices. On August 26, 2021, several things in...
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Featured, Football
Connected by fate, separated by death! Tale of two strikers – Sunny Oyarekhua and Thompson Usiyan
The elements are at work again, playing games with the affairs of man. This is an unlikely tale of two of Nigeria’s greatest football strikers . Whenever my telephone rings at an ungodly hour, it bothers me, because, often it...
Featured, Football
John Fashanu, Otto Gloria and the burden of evidence!
Sports Ambassador, John Fashanu, has surely run into the stormy waters of Nigerian football with recent reports of an allegation purportedly made by him on a radio program in Lagos. I have not even tried to verify it because I...
Featured, Sports Development
Sport – The universal level playing-field for the Black race!
That's why the late sage, Dr. Nelson Mandela, famously said: “Sport has the power to change the world”. It was not a flimsy speech by one of the most respected men in human history. It was a simple message but...
Featured, Sports Development
Kenya and Jamaica – models for development of the sports industry in Africa!
Sports development in Africa is on my mind. I am asking myself probing questions. Uganda produced a John Akii-Bua in the early 1970s. He was the greatest hurdler in the world at the 1972 Olympics. Tanzania produced Filbert Bayi in...
Eye on Tokyo, Featured
Eye on Tokyo 2020 ‘Hardwork and Merit before Prayers’
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...
Eye on Tokyo, Featured
Eye on Tokyo 2020 (DAY 14) – The final chapter.
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...
Eye on Tokyo, Featured
Eye on Tokyo 2020 (Day 13) – Prayer time for a miracle
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...
Eye on Tokyo, Featured
Eye On Tokyo 2020 (Day 12) – ‘Encounter’ with Edwin Moses – The legend who made running look easy!
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,...
Eye on Tokyo, Featured
Eye on Tokyo 2020 (Day 11) Golden moments – redemption, at last?
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...
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