Category: General

Do not mind the title of today’s column.  I am just playing with words, even though they reflect my mind and the season. The month of March has become very significant for various reasons. Dele Odegbami   March 4, marked the...

It is not what may be going through your mind as you read this headline - a football match, or a comparison between the megastar and legendary football magician, Jay Jay, the skills-workshop, Austin Okocha and the old mercurial, dazzling...

From March 22, 2020, the 20th edition of the Nigerian National Sports Festival will begin and Nigeria’s best domestic athletes will converge in the ancient city of Benin, Edo State, for the biggest domestic sports festival in the whole of Africa. This bi-annual...

In the past few weeks I have had to ask myself some very pertinent questions about life, the answer to which is to be humble, grateful and appreciative of the little things in life, particularly the little time we all...

I must complete my Freetown diary. I left it hanging like clothing on a line. DAY 4. I play tennis again. I play two sets this time instead of the usual one. I am following my own prescription of exercising...

I go for my tennis 'lesson' again, early. I am the one delivering the lessons this time. Aliyu is now 'humble'. A fantastic coach, but I crush him again in another match, 6-4. It lasts about an hour. He admits...

Freetown, oh Freetown, nothing is free in Freetown o!  That's Uncle Jimmy Johnson's message to me when he read last week that I am in Freetown. He is right, nothing is free here. I have learnt that in the four...

Your Excellency, A matter of national interest and attention. I write on behalf of the 22 members of the 1980 national football squad, the Green Eagles.

This may be stranger than fiction. You cannot believe where I am as I write this. I am sitting at the SAHCOL airport VIP lounge at the Murtala Muhammed International airport in Lagos, waiting to board an airline I heard...

It is freezing cold here. It is a far cry from the temperate climate I left on Sunday afternoon in Jos to return to the sweltering megapolis of Lagos. I am aware that many people are waiting for the report of...