Category: Football

Politics across Nigerian football will dominate the sports landscape starting from AFCON 2022. Politics in the game and its administration have, indeed, become a recurring decimal, like a groove in a broken vinyl record repeating the same ‘lyrics’ over and...

Forgive my seeming enragement in this piece. The matter of Gernot Rohr, the German coach of Nigeria’s national football team, the Super Eagles, must have been finally rested. Most Nigerians are in an unwritten agreement that the man must just...

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...