Category: Football

The best football stadium in Nigeria today is probably the new, state-of-the-art, magnificent edifice in Akwa Ibom State, the Uyo Township Stadium. It may also have the best football playing surface of lush, flat and green grass. I have actually watched...

There is a new development in Nigerian sports that excites me despite the pall of a pandemic over our heads. The National Stadium in Lagos is about to be ‘fixed’. For 20 years since 2000, the stadium has been in...

Does Juju exist at all? Does it work? Does it exist in Sport?  I do not have any of the answers to the three questions but I have experiences that span almost 50 years since I played my first serious football competition...

 Do you know that one of the most famous names in the history of Nigerian football, described as one of the best strikers ever, scored only two goals for the national team of Nigeria?  Do you know that a certain...

It gives me great pleasure to celebrate my friend and compatriot. Last Sunday, May 17, he turned 69. He told me on Tuesday how he spent the day very quietly at home with his family in Enugu. But then, we spoke...

It is not an easy task to compile a list of 16 players that make up an assembly of the greatest team in 60 years of football in Nigeria, called ‘Dream Eagles’.At best, it is an academic exercise. More so, when...

This week I was in the clinic for an ‘emergency’ check-up. My Blood Pressure rapidly headed northwards! Professor Akinyanju told me as soon as he checked me that it should never be reported that the Enough Ambassador for Africa, NCD, Champion...

This is the last in the series, a journey through the eleven positions in a regular football team. It goes without saying that there is plenty of flexibility in the placement of players into positions on the field, with every...

Most countries in the developed world have a Hall of Fame. This is a structure housing memorials to heroes and famous individuals in a particular sector. The best known is in Sports. It is the highest honour for an athlete...

Today, again, I am going back in history to an unforgettable day in the calendar of Nigerian football. I don’t know the exact dates, but the two matches took place between October and November of 1977.   As a mark of...