Category: Football

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...

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...