Things are happening very fast in 2017. Two weeks into the New Year the biggest news in football comes out of Zurich. FIFA finally approved its president, Giovanni Infantino’s proposal to expand the World Cup from 36 countries to 48!...
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Football, Sports Development
The World Cup – Africa’s turn again!
One week into 2017 permit me to repeat a story I have told a few times before in several media in the past 13 years. I am doing so again only because I watched an interview on CNN of Gianni...
Analysis, Sports Development
2016 – Nigeria’s price to pay for a better future
The challenges, the trials and tribulations faced by all Nigerians in 2016, a year which, to say the least, was hard for them, I strongly believe, are a necessary crucible of fire the country needed to pass through in order...
Featured, Football, Sports Development
Ballon d’Or – Trophy or Talent?
Cristiano Ronaldo has just won his fourth Ballon d’Or award for the world’s player of the year 2016. Very few will doubt that he deserves the award particularly this year. Why? In 2016 he led Portugal to win their first...
General, Sports Development
The 2016 FIBA African Women’s Basketball Club Championship –the complete story!
I was at the 2016 FIBA Africa Women’s Basketball Club Championship from November 25 to December 5, in Maputo, the capital city of Mozambique of some two and half million people known for their deep passion for basketball. I went...
Football, Sports Development
The War in Uyo – the Super Eagles versus the Desert Foxes!
Next weekend there is going to be a war in Uyo. The Akwa Ibom State capital is fast becoming the football capital of Nigeria. Everyone can now appreciate the vision of the State Government and the benefits of locating a...
Football, Sports Development
Who will win Africa’s Best player award of 2016?
The annual ceremony for the award of Best African Footballer of the Year is upon us again. How quickly time flies. Was it not ‘yesterday’ that Yaya Toure angered a lot of people by discrediting the process of last year’s...
Football, Sports Development
Random thoughts on sports
I have been trying to think up an ‘innocent’ subject matter, one that will not be negative, not offensive, that we have not exhaustively discussed here before, that would not make me sound like a broken record, that would help...
Featured, Football, Sports Development
An uncommon birthday celebration – I thank you all!
The European leagues go on a short break this weekend. So, I sheath my first football analysis and comments this season until later. This weekend also Nigeria’s Super Eagles will play their first international match under their new coach. There...
Featured, Football, Sports Development
Honour Nigerian Olympians and rekindle the lost spirit of the Olympics!
Nigeria has not celebrated the return of her Olympians after Rio 2016! For the wrong reasons the country has failed to honour the ‘soldiers’, it sent to a global ‘war’ without weapons, without motivation and without adequate preparation, yet expected...
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