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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...

It is a New Year - 2023. For the first time in ages, I am deliberately setting several New Year goals and resolutions for myself but anchored to a one basic philosophy. The philosophy is not to join in the...

On Thursday, December 15, 2022, the world will take a short breather away from the FIFA World Cup in Qatar. During this break, a small gathering of eggheads from very diverse backgrounds but with a common cause somehow related to...

Warning: This is not the script of a movie. It is true life. I received an innocent verbal invitation from Tony Awe to attend an event at Ikeja Club, an elite social club in Lagos. I know nothing about the...

It is the day after the day, after the day, after…….! I am still in a trance. I have been in a daze, unable to fully rationalise and comprehend the events of the past 7 days in my life.   It has been...

I am devoting this page today, in order to provide some invaluable information on Segun Odegbami International College and Sports Academy, SOCA, a non-profit institution that has been rendering services to young Nigerian boys and girls with passion and ambition to pursue...

I salute you on behalf of all generations of African sportsmen and women.  Forgive me for writing you a public letter even though a copy of this will soon be on your desk at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia....