Category: General

It was in 1992, at the finals of the 100 X 4 metres relay race of the Barcelona Olympic Games in Spain. The Nigerian female quartet ran the last 50 metres of the race at such a blistering pace that...

I am delving into history. The past has always been my compass into the future on the issue of the Nigerian Institute for Sports, NIS. This is because the past was glorious. I was a part of that past. I...

I know Kashim Shettima, the Vice-President elect of Nigeria, but not well enough to say much about him beyond my single physical encounter with the man, and a few telephone calls later, in the course of a story that must...

I wake up to pen my weekly contribution to national sports discourse, and I am confronted with very unpleasant reports of an event that took place in Owerri the day before, far from any sports field or sports event, but...

On July 16, 1976, a brand-new Nigerian Airways DC 10 aircraft took off from the Montreal International airport, Canada, piloted by renowned Captain All-well Brown, and heading for Lagos. It was a human cargo of 45 young Nigerian athletes whose...

I am threading on dangerous ground. 4 young men work as sports journalists in Eagle7 Sports Radio. They all have an uncommon passion for sports and for broadcasting. I am not even sure how many of them have academic qualification...

By the time you are reading this, I shall be in Oye Ekiti at the 7th Convocation of the Federal University, receiving an award that will occupy an enviable place amongst my chest of awards collected over the past half...

This is for all young person's aspiring to a professional sports career, examined through my own story. Enjoy it. Two weeks ago, I received the good news that the Federal University Oye Ekiti, FUOYE, would be conferring on me an...

In sport, winning is everything, but sometimes to win does not require coming First! This is a fundamental lesson, not just in sports but in all of life. But it takes sport to provide the perfect model for this fundamental...

Forgive my little digression from hard-core sports. Instead, enjoy this little story of a particular day in my life. I am 10 years old. I am with several of my age mates playing our daily evening football on the huge...