Nigeria has not celebrated the return of her Olympians after Rio 2016! For the wrong reasons the country has failed to honour the ‘soldiers’, it sent to a global ‘war’ without weapons, without motivation and without adequate preparation, yet expected...
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Rio 2016 – back to the future!
I love Nigeria with all my heart. This love affair is rooted in my relationship with the country since I set out meandering through the mazy world of sports. It has been an incredible journey through some of the best...
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The NFF and their expensive German gamble!
I am very happy that the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, have finally got their wish. They have hired another foreigner to handle the Super Eagles. I am also happy that they appear to be very happy with their choice of...
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The Olympic medals I (never) won!
It was during the summer of 1976 that I went to my first Olympics. I was a freshly minted graduate of Mechanical Engineering getting ready to report to Lagos where I had been posted to for my national youth service...
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Amaju Pinnick – the magician!
Amaju Pinnick, the president of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, must be a magician. In the midst of probably the poorest period in the history of Nigerian football, he has managed to shine some bright light on it. At a...
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Olympic jamboree and failed NFF foreign coach recruitment!
This page was missing last week. Last Thursday, to my utter consternation, my laptop would not boot after I turned it on. That was when I realized how vulnerable I have become to modern technology. I am now enslaved to...
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Euro 2016 and Rio 2016 – different strokes!
I have just finished watching the semi-final match of the ongoing Euro 2016 championship between the home team, France, and current World Champions, Germany. How more cruel can football be? Germany that did all the playing and France did all...
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Nigeria needs a miracle to get to Russia 2018!
I have often thought that the state of Nigerian football is usually reflected in the state of the country itself, that football cannot be immune from what happens in the rest of the polity. Football is such an integral part...
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Euro 2016 – a lesson for African football!
I am watching the ongoing European Championship 2016 with a lot of interest. I am paying particular attention to what makes the championship different from its African counterpart, AFCON. Why is the European Championship such a massive television spectacle? The...
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Amodu Shaibu – my tribute!
2016 must go down in the history of Nigerian football as a year of calamity, a year of unprecedented loss of some of the country’s greatest football heroes. One week after paying a painful tribute to the most successful coach...
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