Category: General

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...

My work is my passion.  It has always revolved around what I have done, and enjoy doing, most of my life - sport. I have just left an event in Lagos that excites me to no end. It is a...

The Hungarians heard about SOCA in Wasimi Orile, they came, they saw and they were smitten. The social 'explosion' in the heart of Ogun State in cultural social, educational and Sports development continues beautifully. The video speaks more than a...

There is always something confounding about South Africa.  When I first heard the word ‘Apartheid’, it was in connection to South Africa.  The country was one of the last bastions of slavery in the world. We, as Nigerians, massively contributed to fight...

Whao...friends then, friends now, in pure demonstration of the beauty and essence of sports, no matter how competitive and what's at stake. From left,  Late Shooting Stars FC Captain Samuel Ojebode, Enugu Rangers Captain Christian Chukwu, yours truly Segun Odegbami,...