Nigeria never ceases to rattle and to amaze me. With all its chaos and crisis, there is no place quite like the country in the world. It is difficult to understand what drives this most populous of Black nations on earth. The...
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Focus on Nigerian Football
Featured, Football
Forecasts on Mathematical7.com
Starting this weekend, I shall be commencing my own journey into a new world of opportunity within the football planet. In close consultation with Lukman of the Sports Parliament fame, the weekly live sports programme on Africa’s largest Television network - NTA, (Thursday nights from 10:30pm)...
Featured, Football
Celebrating Three August giants in Nigerian Football.
We are in the month of August. I want to pay some special tribute to three great Nigerians that have done great things for and in Nigerian sports. The first two are still alive and kicking, superlative football heroes that...
Featured, Football
My Full Interview with late Chief MKO Abiola
My full interview with the late Chief MKO Abiola on Nigeria, life, politics and his passion - football
Analysis, Football
New targets – Champions of Africa and Semi-finalists of World Cup!
There are several matters that have arisen from the debris of my columns of the past two weeks. I have received more responses to them in one week than I did since the start of the year. They seem to...
Analysis, Football
I cannot, and shall not, celebrate this Bronze!
I am an Olympian to the core. I went to two Olympics. The first was boycotted at the last minute by African countries. At the second, I was Nigeria’s flag bearer, overall captain of the contingent as well as captain of the...
Football
Gernot Rohr – all is forgiven… but Nigeria needs a new coach for 2022!
Last Wednesday night, the Super Eagles put up their best performance so far in AFCON 2019. As difficult as the match was, there were almost no threats to the Nigerian goal throughout the encounter. Even the goal the South Africans scored...
Analysis, Football
The ‘Mortal’ sin of Gernot Rohr
Thank God I am not in charge of Nigerian football. If I was, Gernot Rohr would either be history by now or (depending on the content of his contract) be sitting out the rest of the AFCON championship from the...
Football
Interview with Chief MKO Abiola
I have a series of interviews with Chief MKO Abiola for your viewing and listening pleasure. Here is his take on Nigerian Football.
Football
The NFF and the Sports Ministry – the endless crisis!
Things are not very well with funding sports in Nigeria. The country was reminded again this past week, in Egypt and in France. It has become extremely rare for any national team of Nigerian athletes to attend an international event...
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