Category: Football

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...

We have been in a sprints race against Time! We were 20, or so, at the start of the race.  It is hard to believe that without missing a single beat, without stopping for a single second, time has been...

Last weekend, the Vanguard newspaper reported an incident between its reporters and Emmanuel Okala, MON, one of the heroes of the Gold-medal winning team of the 2nd All-Africa Games in 1973, a member of the winning squad of the 1980 African Cup of...