Rashidi Yekini is dead. He died on Friday. Yekini was by all accounts a devout Muslim and was quickly buried the next day, in accordance with Muslim rites. Going by …
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Scoring the first goal for Nigeria at the World Cup wasn’t the only reason why Nigerian football lovers loved Rashidi Yekini. The football loving fans of that generation saw Rashidi …
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Dr. Kalu it was who led Enyimba of Aba, as then Governor of Abia State, to break the 38 years old Champions League failure plague that had trailed Nigerian club …
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I belong to the school of thought that avers that football has an over bloated ego in this country of ours. I do not believe that football engenders unity, or …
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The call for the scalp of the embattled Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, as a totem to appease the impregnable coliseum of teeming fans of the Super Eagles, is understandable…
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Although Nigerians appreciate the football house’s decision to hands off the senior national team, at least publicly, abandoning it during crises is a colossal travesty. They should be fixing problems …
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Our vision is to see talented Nigerian tennis youths successfully completing our tennis and education programs, and successfully obtaining tennis scholarships and moving on to compete vigorously at national, continental …
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For the past two years, we have been writing and debating the effects of over-aged players in continental and international competitions on Nigeria’s image and respect around the world…
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Between now and 2018, one seriously hopes that the Russian Government would have put its anti-racist strategy into good use. It will be a tragedy for the FIFA games if …
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My parents did not teach me to be arrogant, neither did my teachers. Arrogance is something you could pick up along the road of life, and sometimes too when you …
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Events over the years have left the beautiful game of football in a sorry state, especially in Nigeria. The crises can best be viewed by the state of affairs within …
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The Nigerian nightmare in Germany hurts but it cannot be said to hurt more than the daily looting nightmares we are being subjected to by our politicians from the local …
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Imagine my horror in Durban on my way back when I drove to the Durban international airport only to be told by the security officer at the gate that “there …
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Nigeria has not won an international senior trophy for 16 years. That should tell you that Nigeria is not a very good football team despite what its people think…
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I do agree that football certainly has a unifying character. However, this lasts only 90 minutes and football has not emulsified us. We have spent billions of naira on football …
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The man who became the Nigerian coach was a successful failure. Quite unlike Shuaibu Amodu, Lars Lagerback could not qualify his country, Sweden, for the World Cup. He and his …