Forgive my seeming enragement in this piece. The matter of Gernot Rohr, the German coach of Nigeria’s national football team, the Super Eagles, must have been finally rested. Most Nigerians are in an unwritten agreement that the man must just...
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Gernot Rohr, Going, going,…..gone!
I am writing this on Thursday, November 18, 2021. By the time you are reading it on Saturday, the coach of Nigeria’s national football team may have become history. From everything that I can gather from those with ears closer...
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Nigerian Basketball Federation crisis – One election, two faulty constitutions!
Permit me to bore my readers again today. This is very technical stuff that does not make interesting reading. Yet, it speaks to the heart of the current crisis in the Nigerian Basketball Federation. It is also an early warning...
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National Youth Games – catalyst of Grassroots Sports!
This is a true story. It happened to me this past week. Whilst thousands of children, boys and girls, from all over the country were assembled in Ilorin for the National Youth Games, I was trying to play tennis in...
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Who is in charge of Nigeria’s national sports teams?
Take away the freebies from the international engagements of national sports teams and see the restoration of sanity into Nigerian sports administration, accountability in funding, less crisis and fair process in the elections in sports federations, and focus on development...
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Terrible advertisement for Super Eagles!
I was half way through writing this week’s article titled ‘the Reality and the Fallacy in Nigerian Sports’ when I paused to watch the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying group match between Nigeria and Central African Republic, CAR, played in Lagos, Nigeria,...
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Nigerian at 61. Sports on a cliff – to plunge to death, or to learn to fly!
It is early morning of Friday, October 1, 2021. It is the 61st anniversary of Nigeria’s Independence. It is a public holiday when all Nigerians are expected to celebrate their ‘liberation’ from the shackles of colonial rule, the start of self-governance...
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The Pawn and the Prize – Mr. Sports Ambassador!
With gratitude to the Creator of the Universe, I have been very blessed. I am not a religious person in the classic sense of a person indoctrinated into certain strict beliefs and practices. On August 26, 2021, several things in...
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Connected by fate, separated by death! Tale of two strikers – Sunny Oyarekhua and Thompson Usiyan
The elements are at work again, playing games with the affairs of man. This is an unlikely tale of two of Nigeria’s greatest football strikers . Whenever my telephone rings at an ungodly hour, it bothers me, because, often it...
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John Fashanu, Otto Gloria and the burden of evidence!
Sports Ambassador, John Fashanu, has surely run into the stormy waters of Nigerian football with recent reports of an allegation purportedly made by him on a radio program in Lagos. I have not even tried to verify it because I...
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