As the sun of 2020 begins to set, some of us have started to see the faint outlines of a better and more prosperous new year ahead. There are several small but significant last-minute incidents that are happening around us...
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The forgotten heroes of December 12 1976 – race against Time!
We have been in a sprints race against Time! We were 20, or so, at the start of the race. It is hard to believe that without missing a single beat, without stopping for a single second, time has been...
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An Eagle in Nollywood – Day 3
Ipara Uncle Jimi Solanke is a man of many artistic parts - teacher, actor, singer, writer, fine artist, dramatist, multi-instrumentalist, children's television presenter, film director and a key minister in the government of Professor Wole Soyinka in the Autonomous Republic...
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An Eagle in Nollywood – Day 2
Today is actually day 9 or 10 of the shooting of the film Ayinla, but it is Day 2 of my diary of a few of the interesting events around it. Our visit to Ososa and Ipara took place days...
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An Eagle in Nollywood – Day 1
Ososa. It is Day 2 for me at the filming of Ayinla. For Tunde Kelani, TK, it is Day 8. That is because I have not been in Abeokuta since last Saturday when actual filming began. On Friday night a...
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Welfare of Nigerian athletes – Understanding the outrage of Okala!
Last weekend, the Vanguard newspaper reported an incident between its reporters and Emmanuel Okala, MON, one of the heroes of the Gold-medal winning team of the 2nd All-Africa Games in 1973, a member of the winning squad of the 1980 African Cup of...
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Introduction
For the next week or so, I intend to document and publish my experiences as a close part of the filming of Tunde Kelani's latest flick-in-the-making, "Ayinla". For those that enjoy coffee-table-style literature, this is for your reading pleasure, away...
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The 2-years of Limbo in Nigerian sports development!
There is a very important two-year lacuna in Nigeria’s sports development structure that requires a little forensic probing. In the past, we often spoke of the efficacy of the grassroots architecture of Nigerian sports, how we evolved through the school...
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At home with WS in the Autonomous Republic of Ijegba.
It is Tuesday, the 24th of November 2020. The sign posts at the gates reflect the nature of the man who lives beyond them. We leave the entrance and drive a short distance through a canopy of dense vegetation of...
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Maradona – the gift of the gods!
Football is, probably, the most powerful and most followed human activity on earth. For many of its adherents to jointly conclude that one person is probably the greatest football player of all time cannot be considered flimsy or a mean...
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