Category: Sports Development

What many people do not know about me is my relationship with the health sector. Almost 20 years ago, I was invited to consult for the Nigerian Heart Foundation, NHF, on Sports (Golf specifically). That relationship eventually took me to...

Life is, generally, not easy for most Nigerians now. It has not been for several years. It is worse if you are a retired athlete. To be an ageing retired athlete is the worst condition imaginable in Nigeria. The country...

Officially, the football season in our part of the world has ended. The European Leagues are also on break, and all national football teams have resumed their march to other continental championships. Even those ones will soon give way to...

There was celebration amongst the stars. It had been long in coming. For several years, a young Nigerian female athlete had been knocking on the door of success, to be let in. It was always so close it became only...

Generally, the conception is that Sport and Politics do not mix. No country in the world wants to disrupt the sanctity of sport. So, as much as humanly possible humans avoid the incursion of politics into man’s greatest social activity. ...

Nigerian sport is on break. With the seeming lull in sporting activities across the land, that’s what it looks like. Covid-19 is not going away and not helping matters, at all. Aside that, the global environment is pregnant with despairing...

This is a true story. It happened to me this past week. Whilst thousands of children, boys and girls, from all over the country were assembled in Ilorin for the National Youth Games, I was trying to play tennis in...

Take away the freebies from the international engagements of national sports teams and see the restoration of sanity into Nigerian sports administration, accountability in funding, less crisis and fair process in the elections in sports federations, and focus on development...