It is clear that Africans have been victims of an established post-colonial World Order that has kept the continent shackled in a mental siege of an unworkable ‘democratic’ formula that breeds corrupt leaders and governments, and weak institutions. It is...
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Welcome to new Minister of Sports!
I am writing this on Friday morning. A new Minister of Sports for Nigeria has been in office for one week. The sports fraternity welcomes him to the beleaguered sector. Senator John Owan Enoh does not even have time to...
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Salute to Great Nigerian Patriots in Sport!
Life is, generally, not easy for most Nigerians now. It has not been for several years. It is worse if you are a retired athlete. To be an ageing retired athlete is the worst condition imaginable in Nigeria. The country...
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The Sports and Diplomacy Wall of Fame
It is the morning of July 29, 2023. I am at the Nigeria Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, in Lagos, Nigeria. It is a wet, cool and calm morning, and as I drive into the premises it is empty of...
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July 28th 2023 – the day Sport and Diplomacy meet!
On July 28th, 2023, Filbert Bayi, OLY, former Tanzanian middle-distance runner, one of Africa’s greatest athletes in history will be in Lagos. African American legendary former sprinter, Olympic Gold and Bronze medalist, Ron Freeman, OLY, will be in town. The...
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The life of an OLYMPIAN – Night of a hundred gods and goddesses!
It happened on Thursday night at the Yar Adua Conference centre, Abuja. Some of the most outstanding athletes in Nigeria's Olympic sports in the past six decades (therefore all Olympians), assembled for a special bi-annual re-union organised to remind their...
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Jeremiah Okorodudu, please forgive Nigeria!
It is a sad day and a sadder period for sports in Nigeria. A few days ago, Jeremiah Okorodudu, a famous Nigerian boxer, probably the most flamboyant and loquacious boxer in the country’s boxing history, died in a private hospital...
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July 28th, 2023 – Stepping backwards to see farther ahead in Nigerian Sports.
Officially, the football season in our part of the world has ended. The European Leagues are also on break, and all national football teams have resumed their march to other continental championships. Even those ones will soon give way to...
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Celebrating an exiting Minister of Sports!
As far as I can recall, it has never happened quite like this in Nigeria’s sports history. I mean, for stakeholders (not all of them though, admittedly) to come together at the end of the tenure of a Sports minister...
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At the Olympics, you do not have to participate to be a Winner
It was in 1992, at the finals of the 100 X 4 metres relay race of the Barcelona Olympic Games in Spain. The Nigerian female quartet ran the last 50 metres of the race at such a blistering pace that...
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