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...
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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...
Featured, Football
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...
Analysis, Featured, Football
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...
Featured, Football
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...
Football
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...
Featured, Football
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...
AFCON 2021, Football
Memorable Moments of AFCON 2021
AFCON 2021 has come and gone. Memories linger on. It was a great festival and a true celebration of the best of African football. It had plenty of colour, culture, excitement, suspense, drama and pure entertainment. It was a great...
AFCON 2021, Featured, Football
Salah Versus Mane!
The African Cup of Nations, Africa’s most prestigious football competition, has finally arrived the global stage of recognition. The continent earned it in three weeks of a great football feast, putting on display the full array of African football...
AFCON 2021, Football
Super Eagles – What next?
The exit of the Super Eagles from AFCON 2021 has surely been painful. But the pain is definitely not deep enough to warrant Ayo Odumade’s reaction in an SMS message he sent to me: “Still very raw and hard to...
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