2024 is about to drop into the archives of history. The year has had some significant moments and developments that provide a good indication of things to come in the New Year. On the eve of 2025, from my observatory high up in the hills of Wasimi, I can testify that life has been manifesting … Read more
Nigerian Sports Development… Between Sokoto And Sokoto! …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>> As a writer of a weekly column, sometimes I run out of subject to write about. The mind goes into ‘idle’ mode, blanketed by the innumerable moving parts of life. Scanning through my mind for the ‘bigger’ stories often obscures the smaller and, sometimes, … Read more
A Tribute By Segun Odegbami …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>> I am, therefore, retreating into history to pay some little, well-earned tribute to some special Nigerian soldiers in sports whose footprints are etched permanently in the sands of time. This is not an academic excursion into the history of the military in Nigerian sports. It is … Read more
‘Stop Using Sports Ministry As Dumping Ground’ …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>> Former Vice President of the Nigeria Olympic Committee (IOC) and current Patron of the body, Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima, has expressed his discontent with the Federal Government’s tendency to appoint Ministers with little to no knowledge of sports to head the country’s Ministry of Sports, … Read more