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Its two months after the Beijing Olympics and a few weeks after the Paralympics and the Nigerian Government has not made any comments on the athlete’s performance nor organized a …

Only time will tell how far we will go and how well we will do in the ongoing Olympic games.  I have saved a few bucks to give myself a …

I am persuaded that the more China engages with the world, she will have to improve her behaviour; hosting the Olympics is a great starting point in this direction…

This past weekend, the lightning of sporting genius and success of Venus and Serena Williams struck  again for a combined seventh time in nine years…

The man who is proposing to conduct the investigation into Nigeria football is himself the personification of corruption in Nigeria. Forget about the politicians and others. Amos Adamu is the …

At a time when most of the news headlines coming out of Nigeria are negative, it is heart warming to find one of our own creating positive headlines across the …

This is not just the summary of how Arsenal wasted their chance of becoming Premiership Champions for the 2007/08 season. It is a literary reminder of one of football’s most …

The waiting game continues for Nigerian football. Once, again, the once revered Super Eagles couldn’t even fly in the African Cup of Nations. So much for naming big African teams …

Nobody can tell if Samuel Peter’s parents peered into a crystal ball before they named him Okon (nightmare). For the boxer known worldwide as the ‘Nigerian nightmare’ beat the living …

Nobody could believe it. That the man who ambled easily into the breakfast lounge of the La Palms Golden Beach was Michel Platini…

It is worth saying here that the memories of Ghana 2008 will linger for a long time. Memories of above-average officiating, of voodooism, of tall dreams, of hopes and expectations, …

Ashe has given us a blueprint for tennis development. As a visionary, scholar and educator, in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, he envisioned the tennis world to be replete with …

It was always going to happen. With a clueless, corrupt and inefficient Nigeria Football Association, an ageing team of un-motivated players and an equally useless, clueless and un-committed coach…

From Sunday January 20th an intercontinental soccer ‘war’ will be officially declared in Accra Ghana. The African Cup of Nations, the most prestigious football bi-annual event will be hosted this …

The ESPN match commentator described the manner of victory as “unorthodox”. You could hardly be more apt in your own description of this night at Madison Square Garden. Samuel “the …

I can’t deny the fact that football has become a culture of its own. Business moguls are having boardroom fights just to buy over one premiership side or the other.