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...
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Sports Developement
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...
Featured, Football, Sports Development
2030 – West Africa’s turn to host the World Cup!
On the night of Wednesday, May 17, 2017, I followed the news on CNN. It was about USA, Mexico and Canada, in short the entire North American continent, bidding to host the FIFA World Cup in 2026 when the new...
Featured, Football, Sports Development
Solomon Dalung versus Federation Presidents!
Elections into the board of national sports federations are just around the corner. They have generated a lot of controversy within the sports family these past few weeks. Different groups are contesting for the power to control the different national...
Featured, Football, Sports Development
The ‘killing’ of Liberty Stadium, once one of the best stadia in the world!
I anchor a new sports programme on Africa’s largest television network, the NTA, with a conservative domestic viewership of some 60 million Nigerians in all corners of the country. The live programme, The Sports Parliament, has been running for 10...
Analysis, Featured, Football, Sports Development
Messi, Ronaldo, and the greatest player in history debate!
FC Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre Ter Stegan thinks so – that Lionel Messi is the greatest player in the history of the game! He joins millions of people around the world, including yours truly, who also think so and are celebrating...
Analysis, Featured, Football, Sports Development
Sports revolution fire in Edo State – advancing the legacy of Ogbemudia!
Something exciting is cooking in Edo State. I need to tell it and predict its probable outcome. At last I believe that there is a new ‘prophet’ in the land, somebody in authority, someone that has the political will...
Featured, Football, Sports Development
CAF Elections – The fall of Hayatou and the rise of Ahmad!
He should have seen the handwriting on the wall. He should known it was a matter of time before fate would catch up with him. The signs have been all around him for several years now but the intoxicating effect...
Featured, Football, Sports Development
Television and Sports – like tea and sugar!
Last Thursday night was very historic in the annals of sports development in Nigeria. A television programme set out on an ambitious adventure to do what has never been done before - use a media platform to drive an agenda...
Featured, Football, Sports Development
The Indomitable Lions are back.
Watch out Africa, the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon are back. The team is back, big time, and better. Their victory last Sunday was no fluke. It was well fought for and well earned. They may not have played...
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