There have been two very significant developments in Nigerian sports this past week. The first is that November 30, 2017, came and went and the world did not end! The second is that Nigeria escaped by a hair’s breadth what...
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Sports Developement
Football, Sports Development
World Cup funds – why no NFF President has ever won a second term!
Kayode Thomas is a very well known Nigerian journalist, irrepressible, courageous and hard working. Through the years I have followed his career from a distance. His candour is remarkable, frank to a fault and down to earth. He is not...
Football, Sports Development
How Nelson Mandela led me to discover the power of sport that can transform Nigeria!
On Monday, October 2, 2017, I shall be speaking at a public forum called The Platform organized by the Christian Covenant Centre, Iganmu, Lagos, on an issue that has been very close to my heart for decades. On the surface, it is...
General, Sports Development
Neglecting sports – a time bomb!
Permit me to apologise once again to all those that make this column part of their weekend diet, for not filling this space last weekend. Let me make a confession. For the first time in many years, I have not...
Analysis, Sports Development
SOCA – the school of sports excellence!
Two very significant things happened in my life in the year 2005. The first is that I went to the United States of America to participate in my first World Scholar-Athletes games, an assembly of secondary school pupils from over...
Sports Development
America on my mind!
I was missing on this page last week. It is because my family and I have been on vacation in America. Unfortunately, last week, things did not work out as I had thought they would. I completely miscalculated the time...
Featured, Sports Development
The Ghost of Hayatou resurrects in Rabat!
Issa Hayatou has resurrected in Morocco at the CAF Executive Committee meeting taking place in the city of Rabat. This time around, instead of haunting all his opponents as was the case for the many decades of his endless, autocratic...
Analysis, Sports Development
Football, business and government.
Football clubs, business and government are on my mind. Many people, even within the sports sector, have been advocating that for the sports industry and sports to grow in Nigeria, States and the Federal governments must hands-off the running of...
Football, Sports Development
Remembering Mudashiru Lawal.
This past week marks the 26th anniversary of the transition of Mudashiru Babatunde Tiamiyu Lawal. How time flies. The world has just moved on unperturbed, not missing a beat, not even for Muda, a true African football legend, one of...
Football, Sports Development
Eagles –this time truly beaten!
Last Saturday in Uyo, something went very wrong for Nigeria’s Super Eagles, and very right for South Africa’s Bafana Bafana. Whilst Nigerians were stunned into a state of disbelief by the pedestrian performance of their national team, South Africans were...
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