It is Thursday night. I am writing my article for the weekend. My phone keeps interrupting me. There is a flood of calls. I have always known, but now it dawns on me again, that I am the go-to person...
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That the world may never forget…!
The world must never forget the month of June 1976. And it is not because in that month I was freshly minted as a graduate of Mechanical Engineering, travelled to Europe for the first time in my life, and achieved...
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Chasing the ‘impossible’ dream!
Sport and Reverse Migration. This is an ‘advertisement’. Ordinarily, it would seem an impossible dream that, one day, the flood of migration of Nigerians to foreign lands, particularly Europe and America, would reduce to a trickle and even be reversed....
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Gateway Games 2024 – My Man of the Games
The Gateway Games 2024 came to an end rather ‘suddenly’. To many people, and according to initial pre-games expectations, the 22nd National Sports Festival was to end on Friday, May 30th. That’s why, coming one day before, on Thursday, May...
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Games Village – uniting Nigerian athletes like no other !
I visited the campus of Babcock University last Wednesday morning. The university is the temporary ‘home’ of 12,000 young Nigerian athletes. They come from every part of the country - North, South, East and West. In organising the 2024 National...
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My National Sports Festival experience…and the 2025 Gateway Games!
The National Sports Festival is upon us in Nigeria. My friends, several co-Olympians based in the United States, have called to inform me they will be in Abeokuta for the 22nd edition of the Games that hold sweet memories for...
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Boko haram and the Borno-5
I have repeated this tale several times in the past. I shall not tire of recounting it because of its significance. It is a powerful message for governments. It is a true-life story that took place when the current Vice-President...
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Diary of One great week of Sports!
ABUJA Something big and exciting is happening in the city of Abuja. It is hard to tell if it is deliberate, accidental or incidental. Whatever it is, there is an undercurrent of new development in sports. All one needs to...
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‘Sport has the power to change the world – how true?’
Last Wednesday, at the invitation of the Federal University Lokoja, I delivered the 15th Distinguished Public Lecture of the university. I am devoting my column this weekend to a slightly edited version of the presentation. When I received the invitation,...
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Reparation for Nigerian athletes – Going to the civil court!
I am giving this matter very serious thought again. There have been massive reactions to my editorial last weekend titled ‘the plight of retired sports heroes’ published and read in various media. I am motivated to head to the civil...
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