Before you start wondering about the title of my article today, let me remind all that aside from being a sportsman, I am also an official sports diplomat. So, just relax and go with the flow. It is Thursday morning....
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Why the Super Eagles cannot fly in Nigeria!
Nigeria's Super Eagles should be one of the biggest football forces in Africa by miles. The reality, however, is that even the smallest teams in Africa now find the inconsistent team an easy opponent to take on, particularly on home...
Fumigating the Sports writing sector in Nigeria!
I am threading on dangerous ground. 4 young men work as sports journalists in Eagle7 Sports Radio. They all have an uncommon passion for sports and for broadcasting. I am not even sure how many of them have academic qualification...
Ike Sorounmu – unfortunate poor treatment of a national hero!
By the time you are reading this, I hope Victor Osimhen would have led the frontline of the Super Eagles to ‘destroy’ the national team of football minnows, Guinea Bissau, last night at the Moshood Abiola International Stadium, Abuja. Anything...
‘Jos and the death of the Field Marshall’ – a small tribute!
At dawn of March 13, 2023, the 'Field Marshall' died. The sound of messages bombarding my phone woke me up that morning. The first came from my former classmate and childhood friend, retired Director-General of the Nigerian Television Authority, and...
Sport in a New Nigeria.
Whatever happens in the ongoing national elections in Nigeria, I predict that the country will never be the same again. A new demography has joined the ongoing political ‘war’. This is an army of irrepressible young and educated people determined...
USA– graveyard becomes garden for Nigerian footballers.
f Thompson Usiyen had not migrated to the USA when he did in 1976 but had waited to play during the last qualifier against Tunisia in 1977 for the 1978 World Cup, every Nigerian that knew the mercurial talent of...
Sports and the Election fever – who I will NOT cast my single vote for!
This is not the best of times to write about sport. Writing on any subject outside of the ongoing national elections in Nigeria would appear insensitive, particularly with the pains that all Nigerians are going through on the eve of,...
Peter Fregene must not be abandoned!
Not for the first time, pictures of Peter ‘Apo’ Fregene in a truly pathetic state, looking like a 100-year-old man, unwell and dying, have inundated the information-superhighway. Fregene is a former Nigerian International goalkeeper. He kept goal for a few...
Nigeria at the precipice – to crash or to fly
By the time you are reading this, I shall be in Oye Ekiti at the 7th Convocation of the Federal University, receiving an award that will occupy an enviable place amongst my chest of awards collected over the past half...
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