What many people do not know about me is my relationship with the health sector. Almost 20 years ago, I was invited to consult for the Nigerian Heart Foundation, NHF, on Sports (Golf specifically). That relationship eventually took me to...
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Featured, Football
Player-Power and the Power of Football!
I have the writer’s block. I am mentally browsing and thinking. I have Nigeria, Spain, and Cristiano Ronaldo on my mind. Nigerian football is not thriving as well as it should because of the bedeviling internal crisis that endlessly rocks...
Featured, Football
Shefiu Mohammed, Allen Onyema, and the God of ‘small things’
It is Thursday morning. I feel like story-telling. ‘Big things’ are happening around the world of sports. The success of the Super Eagles of Nigeria last Sunday has revived some confidence in the national football team that has been long-struggling...
Featured, Football
Super Eagles in easy match. Lee Evans ‘resurrects’!
Tomorrow, the Super Eagles of Nigeria will soar some how, any how, against the minnows from Sao Tome. The victory will cement Nigeria’s route to Cote D’Ivoire in January 2024 when the African Cup of Nations, AFCON 2024, begins. Before...
Featured, Football
Nigeria shall win AFCON 2024, and the World Cup in 2034!
It is clear that Africans have been victims of an established post-colonial World Order that has kept the continent shackled in a mental siege of an unworkable ‘democratic’ formula that breeds corrupt leaders and governments, and weak institutions. It is...
Featured, General
Welcome to new Minister of Sports!
I am writing this on Friday morning. A new Minister of Sports for Nigeria has been in office for one week. The sports fraternity welcomes him to the beleaguered sector. Senator John Owan Enoh does not even have time to...
Featured, Sports Development
Salute to Great Nigerian Patriots in Sport!
Life is, generally, not easy for most Nigerians now. It has not been for several years. It is worse if you are a retired athlete. To be an ageing retired athlete is the worst condition imaginable in Nigeria. The country...
Featured, General
The Sports and Diplomacy Wall of Fame
It is the morning of July 29, 2023. I am at the Nigeria Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, in Lagos, Nigeria. It is a wet, cool and calm morning, and as I drive into the premises it is empty of...
Featured, Football, General
July 28th 2023 – the day Sport and Diplomacy meet!
On July 28th, 2023, Filbert Bayi, OLY, former Tanzanian middle-distance runner, one of Africa’s greatest athletes in history will be in Lagos. African American legendary former sprinter, Olympic Gold and Bronze medalist, Ron Freeman, OLY, will be in town. The...
Featured, General
The life of an OLYMPIAN – Night of a hundred gods and goddesses!
It happened on Thursday night at the Yar Adua Conference centre, Abuja. Some of the most outstanding athletes in Nigeria's Olympic sports in the past six decades (therefore all Olympians), assembled for a special bi-annual re-union organised to remind their...
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