Category: Sports Development

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

No one could have written a better script for a sports movie than what is currently going on in real-life in The Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN. As you read this, kindly clear your mind of any distractions in order...

I checked Wikipedia before writing this article. I wanted to know the tallest player in NBA history.  It is Romanian Gheorghe Muresan, who was drafted by Washington Bullets in 1993. He was 7ft 7 inches (2.31m) tall. He was a...