Category: Sports Development

It is most unlikely that many would be familiar with the name of a town called Ileogbo. I never heard about it until a few months ago, when I was appointed as a consultant to work on a project sited...

Following my article last week a social media platform of very prominent stakeholders, cutting across all sectors of sports, took up the subject matter. One of the principals in the body that I erroneously referred to as WADA Nigeria, which...

This is the story of Nkechi Akashili. I am writing this at the cost of hurting certain 'friends' and offending certain sensibilities. Unfortunately, to be silent is to be complicit, to hang a moral Albatross around my own neck because....

I was jolted by a friend’s short message last weekend.  He had read ‘My message to Nigerian youths – Gene and Geography’. He decided that the article needed a response which he delivered in a rather scathing, rhetorical statement pregnant...

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,...

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...