Category: Football

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...

I know that the title of this article will put off many from reading it. It is too simplistic to be true.  I determined a long time ago, however, that I shall not be tired of writing about it.  It...

It was the summer of 1968, the period of long vacations in schools. I was a 'toddler' holidaying from Jos. I used to spend every summer holiday since the pogrom of 1966 between Lagos and Abeokuta. I loved Abeokuta. It...

That is a million-Dollar question. When Bill Clinton was President of the USA and he visited Nigeria for the very first time, one of his very first comments was to ask about the great Super Eagles of Nigeria. Global recognition...

Let me join all Nigerians to congratulate Mr. Melvin Amaju Pinnick, the current President of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, for his amazing victory at last week's elections for a seat on the exalted Executive Committee of FIFA. To many...

1989. It was an encounter of the rarest kind. You just do not get to meet with 3 of the greatest sportscasters in Nigerian history in one place, for an entire week, talking food, family and football. It rarely happens...

Very few persons in Nigeria know the name Steve Mawuenyega. But not so in Ghana where he came from.  I am referring to him in the past tense because by the time you are reading this on Saturday, my very...

In the past one month, 4 former international football players, a former Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association and a fine sports journalist have all passed on. It has been a very painful period for those of us in the...

Two nights ago, I hosted my regular television program, The Sports Parliament, on Africa’s largest television network, Nigeria Television Authority, NTA. It featured a number of megastar African football players from different parts of the continent. Many persons have wondered how...