Last Monday night was another memorable day in the annals of Nigerian football. 11 of the 22 players that represented Nigeria and became the first Nigerian national team to qualify and play at the World Cup finals, were re-assembled and...
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Football, Sports Development
Saving Nigerian Domestic football leagues!
There is a recent scramble by sponsors to unscramble their relationship with the different national leagues. For the second season running, the Nigerian Premier League does not have a major title sponsor. The battle for the most prized possession in...
Featured, Football
The pathetic plight of Nigerian Sports heroes!
By the time you are reading this, my late friend, Taiwo Ogunjobi, would have been finally laid to rest in the city of Ibadan. Taiye did very well for Nigerian sports, first as a football player and later as an...
Featured, Football, Politics, Sports Development
Africa’s opportunity in 2030 threatened!
West Africa should wake up to the reality of what is going as the world prepares to host the biggest sports event in history in 2030, the Centennial World Cup. In that year, divinely scripted for West Africa, it will...
Featured, Football, General
My tribute to Taiwo Ogunjobi.
He died this morning. I had to cancel all my appointments today following the very sad and shocking news of the passage of my friend of over 46 years - Taiwo Ogunjobi, this morning. I have been unable to function...
Football, Sports Development
The Return of ‘Bede’ Insurance!
Ordinarily, this should not be headline news, that a football club has returned to the Premiership of Nigerian football. Except of course, if there is more to the club or the circumstances of the club’s return than meets the eye....
Football, Politics
The Super Falcons – Best African Women’s team ever!
The Super Falcons are at it again.They are about to extend history today when they take on the only team to have dented their record during this outgoing season of the Women’s African Cup of Nations Championship, AFCON, rounding off in Ghana today. South...
Football
When shall the Eagles be Kings of Africa again?
The Super Eagles regained some respect in African football last weekend. They drew with Bafana Bafana in Johannesburg. They had lost in their first-leg encounter in Nigeria a long time ago. Since the disappointment of not going beyond the first round (like all the...
Featured, Football
Rangers International FC – more than a Football Club
Last week I received an avalanche of reactions to what I wrote about my team and team mates in Shooting Stars International Football Club in 1976, when, as a key member of that team, we became the first club in...
Featured, Football, Sports Development
An evening with Amaju Pinnick!
Last Thursday night, Amaju Pinnick was initially a reluctant guest on The Sports Parliament, a weekly television show that I anchor on NTA alongside sports gurus drawn from a pool of 18 members that constitute the parliament. By the time the...
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