He was an enigma. Last Sunday, ‘Ara’ died as quietly as he had lived his entire life. Otunba Deji Osibogun, my friend based in Ibadan, Nigeria, called to give me the sad news. Some time ago, for some reason, Deji...
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Allen Onyema – Honouring unsung heroes of Nigerian sport
Allen Onyema is a very well-known name in business in Nigeria. He owns one of the best and biggest airline operations in the country. He was the Special Guest of Honour at ‘The FESTAC of Sports’ colloquium held at the...
Featured, General
A painful death, a sweet victory and the FESTAC of Sports.
Last week, a great Nigerian patriot, lawyer, former football player, proprietor of a professional club in Canada, sports administrator, international businessman and supreme sports marketer, a quiet gentleman that brought Nike to Africa, and to Nigeria in 1993. A man...
Analysis, Featured
Peace in Nigerian sports – going back to the future!
Nigerians are tired and frustrated with the unending crisis in some national Sports Federations. The particular case of the Nigeria Basketball Federation has compounded the situation as the Ministry of Youth and Sports, frustrated by the endless crisis, took a desperate decision that appears to have...
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The FESTAC of Sports!
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...
Featured, Football
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...
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