On Thursday, November 9, 2017, it shall be 10 years since the Segun Odegbami International College and Sports Academy (SOCA) started operating as Nigeria’s first multi-sports, full-fletched, co-educational secondary school. On that day parents, family, friends, corporate Nigeria, the media,...
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Nigeria with artificial internal boundaries – football to the rescue!
This is the story of a young man called Babankura! He is a breath of fresh air. I am not so sure how old he is because when I met him he did not come with a birth certificate. He...
Football, Sports Development
World Cup funds – why no NFF President has ever won a second term!
Kayode Thomas is a very well known Nigerian journalist, irrepressible, courageous and hard working. Through the years I have followed his career from a distance. His candour is remarkable, frank to a fault and down to earth. He is not...
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Congrats Super Eagles as Football takes over the world!
Many exciting things are happening around the world of football these days. Keeping pace has become a great challenge. All over the world last weekend, the penultimate series of matches for qualification for the 2018 World Cup went on. Many...
Football, Sports Development
How Nelson Mandela led me to discover the power of sport that can transform Nigeria!
On Monday, October 2, 2017, I shall be speaking at a public forum called The Platform organized by the Christian Covenant Centre, Iganmu, Lagos, on an issue that has been very close to my heart for decades. On the surface, it is...
Featured, Football
Looking at Nigerian politics through Sports!
I am not a politician. I have never been one. But one cannot be alive in Nigeria today and not be politically involved, either as an activist or a victim, in the political theatrics ongoing in the country. My head...
Featured, Football
Super Eagles – the burden and the hope of the Black race.
The Super Eagles of Nigeria are much more than the national team of Nigeria. They are the hope of the Black race in a world dominated by others and where, as a human specie, despite the Centuries of struggles, they...
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Cameroon and Nigeria in Dance of Death
I am struggling to write this on Thursday night.‘Under normal temperature and pressure’, as we used to say in physics class in those days, I should be commenting on the Super Eagles and their prospects in the very crucial first...
General, Sports Development
Neglecting sports – a time bomb!
Permit me to apologise once again to all those that make this column part of their weekend diet, for not filling this space last weekend. Let me make a confession. For the first time in many years, I have not...
Analysis, Sports Development
SOCA – the school of sports excellence!
Two very significant things happened in my life in the year 2005. The first is that I went to the United States of America to participate in my first World Scholar-Athletes games, an assembly of secondary school pupils from over...
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