Category: Sports Development

Something tells me Nigeria is entering an exciting new era in sports.  To start with, we have a new minister. He is a breath of some fresh air after a long period in the wilderness when nobody could tell where...

Wasimi, the little rustic town, some 26 kilometres from Abeokuta in Ogun State, is under the spell of football. However, the Wasimi project is much, more than just football.

When I returned from my American trip to the University of Rhode Island (URI) in 2006 my dream was very clear: to establish not just a sports secondary school, but the best such school in the world. I was determined...

Lee Evans was on Nigerian television last Thursday night. He was the special guest on The Sports Parliament, the weekly diet of the best entertaining and educative sports conversation on Africa’s largest television network, the NTA. For a man who...