These are politically crazy times in Nigeria.Voluntarily, or not, everyone is involved in the unfolding drama.I am thinking. How can I use the World Cup as a metaphor, a tool to project a vision of change in Ogun State, where...
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Featured, General, Sports Development
In the aftermath of the Commonwealth Games – A medal is not any medal!
This is one of those weeks for me. There is little happening around of great interest in our domestic sport. So, I spend more time groping in the dark for what to write in order to fill this page with...
Featured, General, Sports Development
Sport is life and life is sport!
The Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast of Australia is rounding off this weekend. Whilst the games have been a feast of sports they have also being a painful reminder of our country’s past as well as its current state....
Featured, General
A special tribute to Our mother – Maami!
That’s what we all called her – Maami. We sometimes also called her mum, the English word for mother, even though she understood only two words of the English language. Despite that my siblings and I spoke the adulterated version,...
Featured, General
Tribute to our Mother.
Forgive me. This week I am applying my literary ‘license’ to pay another special tribute. Only a few days ago the world celebrated ‘Mother’s Day’, a day specially set aside globally to appreciate and honour the women in our lives...
General, Sports Development
The youths have the power to change Nigeria!
I am a worried man. I love Nigeria and Nigerians with all my heart and might. That’s, why I am very worried about the state of both of them. At the start of the year, I celebrated lavishly because I...
General, Lecture paper
The Story of The International Sports Academy!
On Thursday, November 9, 2017, it shall be 10 years since the Segun Odegbami International College and Sports Academy (SOCA) started operating as Nigeria’s first multi-sports, full-fletched, co-educational secondary school. On that day parents, family, friends, corporate Nigeria, the media,...
General, Lecture paper
Nigeria with artificial internal boundaries – football to the rescue!
This is the story of a young man called Babankura! He is a breath of fresh air. I am not so sure how old he is because when I met him he did not come with a birth certificate. He...
General, Sports Development
Neglecting sports – a time bomb!
Permit me to apologise once again to all those that make this column part of their weekend diet, for not filling this space last weekend. Let me make a confession. For the first time in many years, I have not...
Football, General
Kunle Awesu ressurrects!
I hope my Christian friends do not find my choice of the word above offensive or blasphemous. I had a mysterious re-connection with a friend that I last saw some 40 years ago. About a week ago, I opened my...
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