Category: Football

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

It has been one week since the end of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. World Cup finals have usually been drab. The fear of losing the final match makes coaches to be too tactical, and the players under the pressure...

Tomorrow, the 2022 FIFA World Cup comes to a beautiful end. I wish the better side on the night to win. Whilst we are waiting for that, I go back in time in order to catch up with the future...

Football is not described as ‘the Beautiful game’ for nothing. In Qatar, it has thrown up everything that is beautiful about the game – drama, shocks, suspense, surprises, tears (of joy and of defeat) and football of every hue, from...