Yesterday was a great day in my life and the lives of the people and visitors in the town of Wasimi. It was a free day for the young football players participating in the 2019 edition of the ongoing annual...
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Wasimi – a new Football ‘Mecca’?
Wasimi, the little rustic town, some 26 kilometres from Abeokuta in Ogun State, is under the spell of football. The once laid back, quiet town has suddenly transformed into a beehive in the past few days. Until the establishment of the...
Sport, philosophy and the war of civilizations!
Let me admit that I really do not know what I am writing about today. So, forgive me if its reads like ‘Greek’. There is a looming war of the civilisations. In fact, it is ongoing. Between the global superpowers, USA,...
European Football Predictions – Week 2
Welcome to the second week of a very exciting and explosive season.
European Football Predictions – Week 1
French Ligue 1 AS MONACO VS OLYMPIQUE LYON Leonardo Jardim’s team needs a good start. Lyon has a new rookie manager Sylvinho and finished third last season. Monaco won their last 2 meetings at home. Lyon may have a better squad...
World Cup in Nigeria – jamboree or catalyst for development?
Nigeria never ceases to rattle and to amaze me. With all its chaos and crisis, there is no place quite like the country in the world. It is difficult to understand what drives this most populous of Black nations on earth. The...
Forecasts on Mathematical7.com
Starting this weekend, I shall be commencing my own journey into a new world of opportunity within the football planet. In close consultation with Lukman of the Sports Parliament fame, the weekly live sports programme on Africa’s largest Television network - NTA, (Thursday nights from 10:30pm)...
Celebrating Three August giants in Nigerian Football.
We are in the month of August. I want to pay some special tribute to three great Nigerians that have done great things for and in Nigerian sports. The first two are still alive and kicking, superlative football heroes that...
My Full Interview with late Chief MKO Abiola
My full interview with the late Chief MKO Abiola on Nigeria, life, politics and his passion - football
New targets – Champions of Africa and Semi-finalists of World Cup!
There are several matters that have arisen from the debris of my columns of the past two weeks. I have received more responses to them in one week than I did since the start of the year. They seem to...
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