I am still in Independence Day mood. It is the first week into the start of the next chapter in the story of a country called Nigeria. Let us project and call it ‘Nigeria in 2080’, a peep into the future....
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Nigeria, marking 60, and celebrating hope!
On the 60th Independence anniversary of the World’s most populous Black and African country, there is one thing most Nigerians are in agreement with – things are not very well with the state of the country. Given Nigeria’s huge resources and capacity,...
Football, Sports Development
The National Sports Commission – Back to the Future!
I am not a scholar of the subject of sport. The only authority I draw from on the subject is my personal experience. Delving into technical matters of sport in a newspaper column is often boring. The sports public do...
General, Sports Development
59 YEARS OF NIGERIAN SPORTS!
The death of sports development! Every year at about this time I receive requests from media organisations to contribute to the discussion on the state of Nigerian sports since Independence. For many recent years, I have found the experience traumatizing because...
Featured, Sports Development
The return of authentic sports development
Ilorin, the capital city of Kwara State of Nigeria, has returned to normalcy after the frenzy of two whole weeks of a festival of sports that many stakeholders have described as the best sports development programme to have taken place...
Featured, Sports Development
Sunday Dare – A new Sports Sherriff is in Town!
Something tells me Nigeria is entering an exciting new era in sports. To start with, we have a new minister. He is a breath of some fresh air after a long period in the wilderness when nobody could tell where...
Featured, Sports Development
Life and Politics on The Morning Show – Arise News
Wasimi, the little rustic town, some 26 kilometres from Abeokuta in Ogun State, is under the spell of football. However, the Wasimi project is much, more than just football.
Featured, Football, Sports Development
Wasimi – a new Football ‘Mecca’?
Wasimi, the little rustic town, some 26 kilometres from Abeokuta in Ogun State, is under the spell of football. The once laid back, quiet town has suddenly transformed into a beehive in the past few days. Until the establishment of the...
Football, Sports Development, Wasimi Youth Summer Football Championship - 2019
Wasimi Youth Football Championship – 2019
Enjoy the gallery of pictures as Wasimi experiences the power of football to change Nigeria.
General, Sports Development
Sports, a victim of Nigeria’s failure!
I love my country with all my heart and soul and body.That’s why I have given my all to her through all the decades since responding to my first national team call-up as a budding twenty-one-year-old undergraduate/football player. Since then...
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