Category: Football

I am watching the ongoing matches in Qatar but all I am thinking about is my country, Nigeria. As I am writing this, the last of the African teams, Ghana, just played their first match and lost against one of...

You may not know both names above but read this to the end. The 2022 FIFA World Cup starts in a week’s time. I am not going to Qatar.The reality of missing out on my 4-year football pilgrimage is just...

I call him ‘Youngest Millionaire’. It is a nickname that I gave him following our team’s success at the 1980 African Cup of Nations. We had received a lot of gifts that must have amounted to a tidy sum. Being...

This is not a joke. I am in Accra, Ghana, as I write this. I am under the influence of divine inspiration of some sort. I am about to undertake an ‘impossible’ mission - return to the football field. The...

I salute the newly elected President of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, for surviving the hurdles that stood in his path at the elections that almost did not hold following the abracadabra of court orders, an old tactic that once...

I am writing this on Thursday night. I have just read the press release by the Chairman of the Electoral Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF. By the way, the NFF is a parastatal of the Federal Government of...

This is the 21st. Century. As I write this, in a part of the Northern Hemisphere, for almost 7 months, bombs and bullets have been raining down upon innocent humans in a senseless war. ‘Victory’ is measured in the toll...

I am writing on this issue again out of a sense of responsibility to the game that has dominated my activities through most of my years on earth. I believe that if the elections into the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF,...

It appears the train of the elections into the board of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has left the Terminus.The contestants are gearing up for the elections despite an overwhelming ‘consensus’ that some changes need to be made to the...

The Election for the office of President of the Nigeria Football Federation has gripped the imagination and attention of Nigerians. A meeting of the General Assembly of the federation has never attracted as much national attention as it did these...