I am not superstitious but 7 is a number I identify with positively. I was born on the 27th. When I played some of my greatest football matches I was wearing the number 7 shirt. After Nigeria won the 1980 African Cup of...
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AFCON 2019 Daily Diary – Day 6
There was celebration all over Nigeria last night. It must have extended to Nigerian homes abroad. Whenever the Super Eagles win a good match there is always a massive celebration in the land. Incidentally, the least celebration took place in the...
Oshodi – A slum, a tourist attraction
This week President Muhammad Buhari, opened the new Oshodi Transport Terminal, described by some people as an architectural masterpiece. This may not be directly related to sports, but I have since realized that all of life is, indeed, connected to...
AFCON 2019 Daily Diary – Day 5
It was a very interesting day in the Super Eagles hotel yesterday morning. The Nigerian camp was becoming too calm and too quiet. The elements must have thought it is necessary to shake it up a bit, as some people...
AFCON 2019 Daily Dairy – Day 4
Take a look at this picture. It is of smiling Super Eagles players in a very relaxed mood yesterday. It was taken on the balcony of their hotel as they prepared to go for the only training session the team...
AFCON 2019 Daily Diary – Day 3
Yesterday was a very quiet day in the camp of the Super Eagles. That’s exactly what Gernot Rohr wanted – complete rest for the players, both physically and mentally. And that’s what he got. The team trained at 10 am in the morning,...
AFCON 2019 Daily Diary – Day 2
This is President Muhammadu Buhari’s day at AFCON 2019. The President spoke directly to the Super Eagles ahead of their match against Burundi yesterday. The NFF President Amaju Pinnick made sure that happened. It was a masterstroke. It took place in the team’s...
AFCON 2019 Daily Diary – Day 1
I can’t believe it myself, but I am not in Egypt for the 32ndedition of the African Cup of Nations championship that kicked off last night in Cairo. I am unable to travel to Egypt because my international passport has been stuck...
Sports, a victim of Nigeria’s failure!
I love my country with all my heart and soul and body.That’s why I have given my all to her through all the decades since responding to my first national team call-up as a budding twenty-one-year-old undergraduate/football player. Since then...
‘Chairman’ Christian Chukwu must not die o!
Some 7 years ago, I was part of a team of researchers from different countries in Africa that attended a workshop on Non-Communicable diseases in Africa. Over lunch one day in the city of Nairobi, Kenya, one of them, a...
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