Amongst the football fraternity of our time, he was a very good, simple, humble and generous leader. We loved him. Let me tell you why. To start with, it will be a great disservice not to pay a special tribute...
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This world will ‘end’ in 2030!
I wish all my readers a Happy New Year. I am happy to predict that the world, the way we know it now, a global system that has been deliberately designed and constructed in such a way that the Black...
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My unusual journey – Life after Sports!
I have just been appointed a member of an Advisory Board of a new body in Nigeria with a self-defining name – Exercise is Medicine. Exercise is Medicine is an agency of the American College of Sports Medicine. The Nigerian...
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Reminiscences – Alan Hawkes and Lee Evans.
Permit me to tell you about two foreigners that played very significant roles in my career in football.I do not expect that many younger people will know, or even remember them.The first is my first contact with a foreign coach.Playing...
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Sports and Education– keys to the kingdom of the youths!
It is the little things that matter the most in life. Attention to the small details changes lives and makes the biggest difference. Two of late Nelson Mandela’s greatest quotes come to mind. The first is:‘Education is the most powerful...
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Liberty Stadium, Ibadan – A metaphor for the South West!
Were Chief Obafemi Awolowo to wake up from his place of eternal rest and see what has become of the Western Region of Nigeria, one of the places that would make him wail the loudest would be the Liberty Stadium, Ibadan.He would...
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Ogun State, politics and the 2026 World Cup!
These are politically crazy times in Nigeria.Voluntarily, or not, everyone is involved in the unfolding drama.I am thinking. How can I use the World Cup as a metaphor, a tool to project a vision of change in Ogun State, where...
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In the aftermath of the Commonwealth Games – A medal is not any medal!
This is one of those weeks for me. There is little happening around of great interest in our domestic sport. So, I spend more time groping in the dark for what to write in order to fill this page with...
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Sport is life and life is sport!
The Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast of Australia is rounding off this weekend. Whilst the games have been a feast of sports they have also being a painful reminder of our country’s past as well as its current state....
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A special tribute to Our mother – Maami!
That’s what we all called her – Maami. We sometimes also called her mum, the English word for mother, even though she understood only two words of the English language. Despite that my siblings and I spoke the adulterated version,...
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