I was a member of the Professional Football Implementation Committee that developed and established the policies and the structures for the take-off and running of the professional league in Nigeria. The committee designed a business template for football that other...
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Sport – slavery for local athletes in Nigeria!
Sport is presently slave labour in Nigeria. Without exaggerating, and I am asserting with all sense of responsibility, most athletes in the Nigerian domestic sport landscape are living in poverty. The evidence is all around us in the level of...
Nigeria’s retired athletes – their own worst enemies!
I am a member of a WhatsApp group set up by athletes (footballers). It may have the largest membership of all the groups that I know. The membership is easily in hundreds, I believe, and continues to increase on a...
If I was the Minister of Sports….!
When you do not know where you are coming from, how would you know where you are going? You cannot chart a course to any destination as any movement in any direction will be groping in the darkness of uncertainty....
The National Sports Commission – Back to the Future!
I am not a scholar of the subject of sport. The only authority I draw from on the subject is my personal experience. Delving into technical matters of sport in a newspaper column is often boring. The sports public do...
Nigerian football grounds – the revolution may be here, at last!!!
The football ground is on my mind this day. I watched an under-reported news item on one of the television channels a few days ago that lifted my spirit. Our football may be about to enter a new and exciting...
The National Sports Industry Policy – lessons from Adenuga and Ogbemudia!
I admit that I have not read the entirety of the draft of the proposed new National Sports Industry Policy. I admit also that it is not always easy for me these days to read technical documents, not to talk of...
Grassroots football – between Academicals and Under-17!
In the 1960s and 1970s there used to be a sports development structure in Nigeria anchored to education and referred to as Academicals. The academicals competitions in various sports influenced the development of the sports in secondary schools. The academicals were extended and...
‘Blacks Lives Matter’
It is Thursday morning as I write this. I am thinking about Emmanuel Ndubuisi Egbo, the little-known Nigerian International goalkeeper (represented the country about a dozen times between 1998 and 2002), who played his professional football mostly in the little-known...
Football politics and the footballer
I have read several reports, mostly on social media, about Didier Drogba’s attempt to contest for the Presidency of the Cote D’Ivoire Football Federation. A few years ago, following the success of George Opong Weah, the Liberian football player who did great...
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