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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...
Making the rest of 2020 the Year of the Football Field!
The best football stadium in Nigeria today is probably the new, state-of-the-art, magnificent edifice in Akwa Ibom State, the Uyo Township Stadium. It may also have the best football playing surface of lush, flat and green grass. I have actually watched...
Lagos, National Stadium and Taribo and Friends.
There is a new development in Nigerian sports that excites me despite the pall of a pandemic over our heads. The National Stadium in Lagos is about to be ‘fixed’. For 20 years since 2000, the stadium has been in...
Is there ‘Juju’ in sport? My Baptism!
Does Juju exist at all? Does it work? Does it exist in Sport? I do not have any of the answers to the three questions but I have experiences that span almost 50 years since I played my first serious football competition...
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