I love Nigeria with all my heart. This love affair is rooted in my relationship with the country since I set out meandering through the mazy world of sports. It has been an incredible journey through some of the best...
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The NFF and their expensive German gamble!
I am very happy that the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, have finally got their wish. They have hired another foreigner to handle the Super Eagles. I am also happy that they appear to be very happy with their choice of...
Analysis, Football, Sports Development
Amaju Pinnick – the magician!
Amaju Pinnick, the president of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, must be a magician. In the midst of probably the poorest period in the history of Nigerian football, he has managed to shine some bright light on it. At a...
Football, Sports Development
Olympic jamboree and failed NFF foreign coach recruitment!
This page was missing last week. Last Thursday, to my utter consternation, my laptop would not boot after I turned it on. That was when I realized how vulnerable I have become to modern technology. I am now enslaved to...
Analysis, Football, Sports Development
Euro 2016 and Rio 2016 – different strokes!
I have just finished watching the semi-final match of the ongoing Euro 2016 championship between the home team, France, and current World Champions, Germany. How more cruel can football be? Germany that did all the playing and France did all...
Featured, Football, Sports Development
Nigeria needs a miracle to get to Russia 2018!
I have often thought that the state of Nigerian football is usually reflected in the state of the country itself, that football cannot be immune from what happens in the rest of the polity. Football is such an integral part...
Football, Sports Development
President Issa Hayatou, please do not contest again!
Two years ago I advised former FIFA president, Mr Joseph Sepp Blatter, not to re-contest for the seat after holding the office for 16 years. The voice of an ordinary former football player from Africa was too small to influence...
Football, Sports Development
Nigerians, wake up, with Sports we can change the world!
Last week, I wrote about the fairytale story of Leicester City’s incredible season in the just concluded English Premier League! Reactions and comments have continued to flood my blog. Two weeks before that I had written about the 2030 World...
Analysis, Football, Sports Development
The fall of the Super Eagles and a season of apologies!
The Super Eagles of Nigeria are no longer the giants of African football. Since before Stephen Keshi quit as coach of the team I had observed the deficit of quality players in the team that could sustain the old traditions...
Football, Sports Development
My final comment on Oliseh’s resignation
Let me apologise for remaining on this subject matter this week when so many other great things are happening around the world of football that should attract better attention now than the rather over-flogged matter of the resignation of Sunday...
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