Category: General

For a period of 4 years, I was an athletes’ representative, registered with the Athletics Federation of Nigeria as well as the IAAF. I had 4 athletes in my management stable. I never actually got to work with Innocent Asonze...

I am a member of a WhatsApp group set up by athletes (footballers). It may have the largest membership of all the groups that I know. The membership is easily in hundreds, I believe, and continues to increase on a...

Several years ago, my team, IICC Shooting Stars FC, went to play a continental club match in Malawi.  On the day we arrived, a few of us decided to watch a movie in a cinema down the road from our...

Permit me to deviate from more technical issues this morning and pay special tribute to a very special person.  He is hardly ever seen or heard of by the general public. He is very well known within the sports circle....

Last Monday night I was a panelist on an international virtual conference that involved Liberian President and former World Player of the Year, George Opong Weah. It was truly a great pleasure listening to him talk about the past, the...

For very many reasons I do not like to write about the National Institute for Sports, NIS.  Its story is a pathetic reminder of how Nigeria has lost its way in the development of Sports. The mere thought of what Nigeria could...

The world is definitely passing through one of its ‘worst’ chapters in human history.   When all of this is over, when this health crisis comes to an end, ‘when the hurly- burly’s done, when the battle’s lost and won’ (Shakespeare),...

I love the taste of coffee. I take it every morning. Through the years I have mastered how to make my own coffee. I use the same mug every time, the same measure of Gold Blend Coffee, the same Coffee...