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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Featured, General, Sports Development
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...
Featured, General, Sports Development
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...
Featured, General, Sports Development
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....
Featured, Sports Development
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...
Analysis, Sports Development
Nigerian heroes of the Winter Olympics!
For a few weeks, before and during the 2018 Winter Olympics, Nigeria was a hot subject in the global media. The reason was the audacious decision of four Nigerian female athletes based in the United States of America to take...
Analysis, Sports Development
My adventure into the world of the Sports media.
I have an uncommon relationship with sports media. I must tell the story again for the benefit of thousands of young Nigerian boys and girls in school (or even out of school) that may be interested in having a go...
General, Sports Development
The youths have the power to change Nigeria!
I am a worried man. I love Nigeria and Nigerians with all my heart and might. That’s, why I am very worried about the state of both of them. At the start of the year, I celebrated lavishly because I...
Football, Sports Development
Sports and Politics – George Weah breaks the barrier!
My wish and prayer are that the New Year brings happy times to all the readers of this column. The tail end of 2017 has come with one truly terrific development for sports. George Opong Weah, the first African to...
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