Category: Football

I was half way through writing this week’s article titled ‘the Reality and the Fallacy in Nigerian Sports’ when I paused to watch the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying group match between Nigeria and Central African Republic, CAR, played in Lagos, Nigeria,...

It is early morning of Friday, October 1, 2021. It is the 61st anniversary of Nigeria’s Independence. It is a public holiday when all Nigerians are expected to celebrate their ‘liberation’ from the shackles of colonial rule, the start of self-governance...

The elements are at work again, playing games with the affairs of man. This is an unlikely tale of two of Nigeria’s greatest football strikers . Whenever my telephone rings at an ungodly hour, it bothers me, because, often it...

Sports Ambassador, John Fashanu, has surely run into the stormy waters of Nigerian football with recent reports of an allegation purportedly made by him on a radio program in Lagos.  I have not even tried to verify it because I...

I have been the defacto chairman of a football club that is participating in one of the leagues in Nigerian football for almost 10 years.  If the club had been owned by an individual rather than  a multinational organisation that...

I have waited a long time for a period such as this to come. Now, it may be here. I can see the faint outlines of an emerging super force that can drive the essential change that can alter the...

I passed by the Liberty Stadium, Ibadan, the other day. I wept, inside. The once-beautiful edifice that should be a heritage site by now, has become a ghost town, lifeless and idle, a carcass looking  forlorn like an abandoned amphitheatre,...

'Mathematical' is back on the football field, training. I am preparing for, probably, the most significant football match of my life. And this is not a joke. I played my last official football match on a fateful December day in...