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...
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Sports Developement
Salute to Great Nigerian Patriots in Sport!
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...
July 28th, 2023 – Stepping backwards to see farther ahead in Nigerian Sports.
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...
A new Star is born!
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...
The Military in Nigerian Sports – an unhealthy ‘divorce’.
History is a very important subject.A people that wants to make rapid progress in development must take useful lessons from the pages of their history, using previous experiences as a compass into the labyrinthian complexities of uncharted territory that the...
Sports and Diplomacy will unite Africa!
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. ...
Matters-arising in Nigerian sports – a mixed grill!
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...
Nigerian Basketball Federation crisis – One election, two faulty constitutions!
Permit me to bore my readers again today. This is very technical stuff that does not make interesting reading. Yet, it speaks to the heart of the current crisis in the Nigerian Basketball Federation. It is also an early warning...
National Youth Games – catalyst of Grassroots Sports!
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...
Who is in charge of Nigeria’s national sports teams?
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...
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