Category: Sports Development

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...

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,...