Ipara Uncle Jimi Solanke is a man of many artistic parts - teacher, actor, singer, writer, fine artist, dramatist, multi-instrumentalist, children's television presenter, film director and a key minister in the government of Professor Wole Soyinka in the Autonomous Republic...
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Featured, My Nollywood Diary
An Eagle in Nollywood – Day 2
Today is actually day 9 or 10 of the shooting of the film Ayinla, but it is Day 2 of my diary of a few of the interesting events around it. Our visit to Ososa and Ipara took place days...
Featured, My Nollywood Diary
An Eagle in Nollywood – Day 1
Ososa. It is Day 2 for me at the filming of Ayinla. For Tunde Kelani, TK, it is Day 8. That is because I have not been in Abeokuta since last Saturday when actual filming began. On Friday night a...
Featured, Football
Welfare of Nigerian athletes – Understanding the outrage of Okala!
Last weekend, the Vanguard newspaper reported an incident between its reporters and Emmanuel Okala, MON, one of the heroes of the Gold-medal winning team of the 2nd All-Africa Games in 1973, a member of the winning squad of the 1980 African Cup of...
Featured, Football
The 2-years of Limbo in Nigerian sports development!
There is a very important two-year lacuna in Nigeria’s sports development structure that requires a little forensic probing. In the past, we often spoke of the efficacy of the grassroots architecture of Nigerian sports, how we evolved through the school...
Featured, General
At home with WS in the Autonomous Republic of Ijegba.
It is Tuesday, the 24th of November 2020. The sign posts at the gates reflect the nature of the man who lives beyond them. We leave the entrance and drive a short distance through a canopy of dense vegetation of...
Featured, Football
Maradona – the gift of the gods!
Football is, probably, the most powerful and most followed human activity on earth. For many of its adherents to jointly conclude that one person is probably the greatest football player of all time cannot be considered flimsy or a mean...
Featured, Football
Will the world end if Rohr is sacked?
In the aftermath of the two matches between the Leone Stars and the Super Eagles I have refused to make any comments. I have been besieged with questions about why I have remained silent. I am surprised that people are surprised that I...
Featured, Football
Fatai Amao and the 2030 World Cup!
I read this morning that Fatai Amao, ‘Arsenal’, one of the most brilliant midfielders of his generation in the 1980s, a player who, with his silky touches on the ball and immaculate dribbling skills, could have played for any club in...
Featured, Sports Development
Nigerian sports in 2030 – Jamaica shows the way!
I was jolted by a friend’s short message last weekend. He had read ‘My message to Nigerian youths – Gene and Geography’. He decided that the article needed a response which he delivered in a rather scathing, rhetorical statement pregnant...
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