Permit me to digress a little! Two things have come to the fore since watching the semi-final match that produced Cameroon. The first is that we can start to glimpse a new course in the Group of Death for the...
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Egypt and Cameroon ignite AFCON 2017!
I am writing this on Thursday night, a few minutes after watching The Indomitable Lions shoot down the Black Stars from their mountaintop of illusion. The Ghanaian players will wake up in the morning feeling they have had a nightmare....
Football, General
Kunle Awesu ressurrects!
I hope my Christian friends do not find my choice of the word above offensive or blasphemous. I had a mysterious re-connection with a friend that I last saw some 40 years ago. About a week ago, I opened my...
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A New Year, a new FIFA and a new World Cup!
Things are happening very fast in 2017. Two weeks into the New Year the biggest news in football comes out of Zurich. FIFA finally approved its president, Giovanni Infantino’s proposal to expand the World Cup from 36 countries to 48!...
Football, Sports Development
The World Cup – Africa’s turn again!
One week into 2017 permit me to repeat a story I have told a few times before in several media in the past 13 years. I am doing so again only because I watched an interview on CNN of Gianni...
Analysis, Sports Development
2016 – Nigeria’s price to pay for a better future
The challenges, the trials and tribulations faced by all Nigerians in 2016, a year which, to say the least, was hard for them, I strongly believe, are a necessary crucible of fire the country needed to pass through in order...
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Ballon d’Or – Trophy or Talent?
Cristiano Ronaldo has just won his fourth Ballon d’Or award for the world’s player of the year 2016. Very few will doubt that he deserves the award particularly this year. Why? In 2016 he led Portugal to win their first...
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The 2016 FIBA African Women’s Basketball Club Championship –the complete story!
I was at the 2016 FIBA Africa Women’s Basketball Club Championship from November 25 to December 5, in Maputo, the capital city of Mozambique of some two and half million people known for their deep passion for basketball. I went...
Football, General
Chief Justice Adokie – happy 60th!
I have never celebrated any footballer's birthday on this page. This would be a first and for a very special reason. It is a useful reminder of our mortality and how time flies! Time has crept in like a thief...
Analysis, Football
Nigeria – One foot already in Russia 2018!
After last weekend’s series of matches Nigeria leads the ‘Group of Death’ and looks good to go to the 2018 World Cup.After only two of 6 round-robin group matches to be played, both victories against Zambia (away) and Algeria (at...
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