1.0Mathematical 7https://mathematical7.com/m7rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="3SMDHpbk1z"><a href="https://mathematical7.com/m7/sports-a-victim-of-nigerias-failure/">Sports, a victim of Nigeria’s failure!</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://mathematical7.com/m7/sports-a-victim-of-nigerias-failure/embed/#?secret=3SMDHpbk1z" width="600" height="338" title="“Sports, a victim of Nigeria’s failure!” — Mathematical 7" data-secret="3SMDHpbk1z" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://mathematical7.com/m7/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js /* ]]> */ </script> https://mathematical7.com/m7/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/wada.jpg317178I 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 I have not looked back. My country too has done well for me.As an official Sports Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I have had a platform and opportunities to challenge myself and to unearth the ceaseless motivation needed, amidst my best and worst experiences of the country, to continue to contribute my quota to the ultimate mission of making Nigeria a great nation.One of my major tools for fixing the problems of Nigeria and the Black race is sport. The further I went into the heart of the mission, the more I saw the reality of an impending existential threat to the future of Nigeria as one powerful, united and indivisible country. This is glaringly now manifested in our attitude and treatment of our sport and its heroes, our country’s greatest ambassadors to date.Until I entered the political realm to see another side of Nigeria for myself, my view of Nigeria through the prism of sport, was always captured in the occasional international successes recorded by the country’s athletes in some sporting events, particularly football. Those have kept the flame of hope alive and burning in the hearts of many for a long time.My belief has always been that sport is one of the soft-tissue tools (others are Culture, Art, Literature, Film, Music, Entertainment, Tourism, etc) that the Black person can successfully deploy as a change agent in his quest for global respect, equality and freedom from the shackles of previous civilisations.