Permit me to tell you about two foreigners that played very significant roles in my career in football.I do not expect that many younger people will know, or even remember them.The first is my first contact with a foreign coach.Playing...
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The crisis in Nigerian football can be resolved in 48 hours!
Do you know that we have a national emergency situation in Nigerian football?Do you know that the situation is so precarious that the security of the entire country could be jeopardized?Can’t people see what I see from my little observatory...
Featured, Football, Sports Development
Victor Moses and the burden of being captain!
He is 27 years old. Under normal circumstances, no player voluntarily retires from international football at an age that he is at his very best – experienced, mature, exposed, comfortable and at the peak of his physical fitness. So, to...
Sports Development
Asaba 2018 – a great sports spectacle in the end!
This past week, Nigeria was in the news all over Africa.In the capital city of Delta State, a continental sports event was held - the 21st Senior Athletics African Championship tagged Asaba 2018.The event was organized by the Nigeria Athletics Federation, AFN,...
Sports Development
Sport can change the Black person’s world!
Once upon a time, Sport bared its fangs.It clearly demonstrated that it has the power to change the world’s dynamics.I was there.In fact, I was a participant – a sacrificial lamb.Let me tell you the story.In 1976 I was a...
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Liberty Stadium, Ibadan – A metaphor for the South West!
Were Chief Obafemi Awolowo to wake up from his place of eternal rest and see what has become of the Western Region of Nigeria, one of the places that would make him wail the loudest would be the Liberty Stadium, Ibadan.He would...
Football, Sports Development
Domestic Nigerian Football – the past and the present!
I am surely not making a deliberate comparison between the past and the present of domestic football in Nigeria. I am just telling a story. Time was when football in Nigeria was top of the list of social engagements at...
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In the aftermath of the Commonwealth Games – A medal is not any medal!
This is one of those weeks for me. There is little happening around of great interest in our domestic sport. So, I spend more time groping in the dark for what to write in order to fill this page with...
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Sport is life and life is sport!
The Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast of Australia is rounding off this weekend. Whilst the games have been a feast of sports they have also being a painful reminder of our country’s past as well as its current state....
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The Commonwealth Games are not about Money or Medals but about participation!
The Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast 2018, have commenced in Australia. Some Nigerian athletes that should be there are not because officials say they are not medal hopefuls. And that only those with the prospect of winning their event should attend...
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