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...
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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...
The Pawn and the Prize – Mr. Sports Ambassador!
With gratitude to the Creator of the Universe, I have been very blessed. I am not a religious person in the classic sense of a person indoctrinated into certain strict beliefs and practices. On August 26, 2021, several things in...
Sport – The universal level playing-field for the Black race!
That's why the late sage, Dr. Nelson Mandela, famously said: “Sport has the power to change the world”. It was not a flimsy speech by one of the most respected men in human history. It was a simple message but...
Kenya and Jamaica – models for development of the sports industry in Africa!
Sports development in Africa is on my mind. I am asking myself probing questions. Uganda produced a John Akii-Bua in the early 1970s. He was the greatest hurdler in the world at the 1972 Olympics. Tanzania produced Filbert Bayi in...
An Eye over Tokyo 2020 – A daily diary of the Olympics.
I should be in Tokyo, Japan, by now, but I am not. I readily accepted an invitation to attend the 32nd Olympiad as an observer when it was offered me. That was over a month ago. For the first time...
Nigerian Basketball – knocking on the door of greatness!
The times and signs are ominous on the political and economic scene in Nigeria. At the same time, there is a rainbow in the sky - bright and colourful, but brief. Aspects of the entertainment industry, surprisingly, are thriving and...
Nigeria’s chances on the eve of the strangest Olympics!
The world of sport has been agog with action this past week. As much attention is being paid to the Games as to the resurgent Corona virus. From the ongoing Wimbledon Tennis championship, to football across 11 European cities for...
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