Category: Football

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...