That is the big poser, a million-Dollar question. I have tried to consult my crystal ball. It is unusually blurred and fuzzy. I asked some colleagues in the business of football. The blank looks on their faces spoke louder than...
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Focus on Nigerian Football
Remembering El haj Mudashiŕu Babatunde Tiamiyu Lawal (MON, MFR).
Who is the greatest mid-field football player in the history of Nigerian football? The country is replete with a few footballers that can fit that bill - Sunday Oliseh, Mikel Obi, Jay Jay Okocha, Henry Nwosu, Friday Ekpo, Etim Esin, Samuel...
The passage of an enigma – Ara!
He was an enigma. Last Sunday, ‘Ara’ died as quietly as he had lived his entire life. Otunba Deji Osibogun, my friend based in Ibadan, Nigeria, called to give me the sad news. Some time ago, for some reason, Deji...
Adekunle Awesu, the left-footed genius ‘resurrects’!
Any one born after 1978 may not have heard, or may not know about Adekunle Awesu and may choose to read this out of curiosity, or out of the prospect of informative value, or because I am suggesting they do...
Lessons from Gernot Rohr’s ingratitude to Nigeria.
Unfortunately, the subject of Gernot Rohr, once thought buried in our history, has resurrected forcefully again into the consciousness of Nigerians. This past week the Nigeria Football Federation was ordered by FIFA to pay the former coach of the Super...
Reconnecting with the great Dodo Mayana!
I do not know the genesis of the nickname. I once asked him when we went out to shop together in a local market in the heart of Tunis during the 1994 African Cup of Nations championship. I do not...
Re-restructuring Nigerian football administration
The State Football Associations are one member in the Nigeria Football Association structure, not 37 different members. It is surely a bitter pill for these major actors currently dominating football administration in Nigeria to swallow, but they must do so...
Nigerian Football – rising from the debris of Qatar 2022.
I am drawing inspiration from the fountain of philosophy. ‘Curse not the darkness, for underneath it are hidden treasures’. The above is not an exact quote. I have added my words to a quote whose origin I do...
The Crash-landing of the Super Eagles.
On Tuesday March 29, 2022, the ‘plane’ taking the Super Eagles to Qatar 2022 crash-landed on the tarmac of the Moshood Abiola International Stadium, Abuja. It was both fatal and catastrophic in the wake of some tragic events following the...
Why Nigeria, not Ghana, must be in Qatar – message from Idorenyi Uyoe!
I am writing this on Thursday night. I have to do so in order to meet editorial and production deadlines. I should naturally be writing about the ‘Big Matches’, the two World Cup qualifiers between Ghana and Nigeria, (one came...
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