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...
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Sports Developement
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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Establishing the best sports school in the world with Lee Evans!
When I returned from my American trip to the University of Rhode Island (URI) in 2006 my dream was very clear: to establish not just a sports secondary school, but the best such school in the world. I was determined...
Football, Sports Development
Saving Nigerian Domestic football leagues!
There is a recent scramble by sponsors to unscramble their relationship with the different national leagues. For the second season running, the Nigerian Premier League does not have a major title sponsor. The battle for the most prized possession in...
Featured, Sports Development
Lee Evans – coming back to your roots!
Lee Evans was on Nigerian television last Thursday night. He was the special guest on The Sports Parliament, the weekly diet of the best entertaining and educative sports conversation on Africa’s largest television network, the NTA. For a man who...
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