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‘Go-slow’ at the bottleneck of selecting Super Eagles coach.
At the end of AFCON 2023 in February, Jose Paseiro, the Portuguese Manager that took the Super Eagles to Cote D’Ivoire became history. His contract was not renewed by the Nigeria Football Federation despite getting to the final of the...
Featured, General
The role of the Sports Ministry in Nigerian Sports.
An interesting news report ‘provokes’ this article. Ordinarily, I would not attempt to delve again into a controversial subject that has created the most crisis and confusion in Nigerian sports administration through the decades. The more one discusses it the...
Featured, Football
Nigerian Football – Stuck in the Mud of leadership!
Today, Nigerian football is beset with very many challenges. That’s why despite the abundance of talent in the country, taking domestic Nigerian football to another level has become seemingly impossible. It has been stuck for almost 3 decades now in...
Featured, Football
My coach for the Super Eagles!
I do not like to bring up the issue of coaches, because we forget easily. Let us talk about a few foreign coaches since Clemens Westerhof, my friend, the acclaimed best coach in Nigeria’s history, was engaged to coach the...
Featured, Football
Paseiro….going, going, gone!
When the story of Nigeria’s national football team, the Super Eagles, through history will be told, it will never be complete without the mention of a certain Jose Paseiro. Without doubt, he will be listed amongst the national coaches that...
AFCON 2023, Featured
John Owan Eno – a silent operator!
The ‘new’ Minister of Sports Development, Senator John Owan Eno, is an enigmatic, silent operator. You hardly see him, yet, quietly, he is impacting Nigerian sports in a big way. It may be too early for a scorecard of his...
AFCON 2023
AFCON – MY VERDICT!
It is the day after the day after the day after AFCON 2023 ended. For some altruistic reason, far from how the generality of Nigerians felt, I believed, even before the championship started, that Nigeria’s chances of winning it were...
AFCON 2023
Angola – thorn in the flesh?
I do not like football matches against Angola. Since that fateful day of August 19, 1989, at the national stadium in Lagos, when a match ended tragically with the death of Nigeria’s great and gifted midfield ‘general’ Samuel Okwaraji, I...
AFCON 2023, Football
Between the Eagle and the Lion – who wins tonight?
The stage is set for ‘War’. Between Nigeria’s Super Eagles and the AFCON Gold trophy of 2023 stands an old formidable foe. They respect Nigerian players, but not Nigerian football. They always think the football in their country is of...
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