The Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast of Australia is rounding off this weekend. Whilst the games have been a feast of sports they have also being a painful reminder of our country’s past as well as its current state....
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The Commonwealth Games are not about Money or Medals but about participation!
The Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast 2018, have commenced in Australia. Some Nigerian athletes that should be there are not because officials say they are not medal hopefuls. And that only those with the prospect of winning their event should attend...
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A special tribute to Our mother – Maami!
That’s what we all called her – Maami. We sometimes also called her mum, the English word for mother, even though she understood only two words of the English language. Despite that my siblings and I spoke the adulterated version,...
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The great Eagles of 1980 – 38 years after!
The ‘Chief Justice’ of Nigerian football, distinguished legal luminary and Member of the Order of the Niger, Chief Adokie Amiesimaka, was the one who called me up and reminded me it was 38 years to the day on March 22...
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Tribute to our Mother.
Forgive me. This week I am applying my literary ‘license’ to pay another special tribute. Only a few days ago the world celebrated ‘Mother’s Day’, a day specially set aside globally to appreciate and honour the women in our lives...
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Chief Adegboye Onigbinde at 80 – My special tribute!
At the start, I did not like him at all. And I was not alone that did not like his face in Ibadan in those days in the 1970s when I first met him. Indeed, a whole army of supporters...
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The Rashidi Yekini monologue – an exclusive conversation from Beyond! (Part 1)
(This conversation took place some 24 years ago. It was never published in print. Rashidi returned forcefully into my life last week in a most bizarre circumstance. I believe he wanted his memory to be kept alive. Hence this, transcribed...
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Rashidi Yekini Speaks from Beyond
I had an unusual conversation with Rashidi Yekini last Wednesday in my office in Yaba, Lagos. Of course, everyone knows that the greatest goal scorer in the history of Nigerian football rests in peace with his Creator. So, the circumstances...
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Basketball and Football – in the woods!
There have been two very significant developments in Nigerian sports this past week. The first is that November 30, 2017, came and went and the world did not end! The second is that Nigeria escaped by a hair’s breadth what...
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Nigeria in the Group of Death or Group of Hope?
The die is now cast. Last Friday night the world witnessed the draws of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The entire event was so well choreographed that even the eventual draws turned out to represent every country’s interest and no...
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