Category: General

I am writing this on Friday morning to meet production deadline. Truth be told, as we approach the finish line of Paris 2024, Nigeria’s name is nowhere near the top of the final medals table. Of course, Nigeria is not...

I am in London, hopefully on my way, in the next few days, to Paris, the host city of the 2024 Olympiad. I am very excited about visiting Paris again after two previous experiences that are significant chapters in my...

On the eve of another Olympic Games, I invite the reader of this page to join me and shed their own tears.  Believe it or not, when Dr. Ebele Goodluck Jonathan , GCFR, was President of Nigeria, he approved the establishment of...

When I started an FM radio station two years ago sited in a town so small on the map of the world that it almost does not exist, it was such an ‘insignificant’ step in the course of humanity that...

An interesting news report ‘provokes’ this article. Ordinarily, I would not attempt to delve again into a controversial subject that has created the most crisis and confusion in Nigerian sports administration through the decades. The more one discusses it the...

I am writing this on Thursday night.I have just read Osifo Onome-Whiskey’s message to me, a reaction to my article last week. Onome, the maverick journalist, one of the founders of Tell Magazine, the masters of investigative journalism in Nigeria...

A few days into the month of November, my mind is set on my late friend, African/American legendary athlete and international coach, Lee Edward Evans. I have told his incredible story many times before. I cannot tire of doing so...

This weekend, the All Blacks of New Zealand and the Springsboks of South Africa will meet to settle their scores at the final match of the 2023 Rugby World Cup in Paris, France. The match is significant in too many...

I am writing this on Friday morning. A new Minister of Sports for Nigeria has been in office for one week. The sports fraternity welcomes him to the beleaguered sector. Senator John Owan Enoh does not even have time to...

It is the morning of July 29, 2023. I am at the Nigeria Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, in Lagos, Nigeria. It is a wet, cool and calm morning, and as I drive into the premises it is empty of...