Sports

If we had paid attention as a nation, our performances in 1996 would have clearly given us a leverage on where our strength lies, in winning medals in the big …

And so Nigeria returned from the London Olympics empty handed? And so we came back not even with a wooden medal? And as is traditional with our dawdy and bankrupt …

Take a Nigerian and you have a survivor, take two Nigerians and you get two competing survivors, take three Nigerians and you get a series of contradictions. That in part …

Take just an English and you have a dull person, take two English and you get two dull people, take three English and you get a great nation. That in …

Organisers of Olympic opening events are taking their cue from the musical, Chicago, and when it will be time for Africa, Richard Gere’s ghost will be ever so lightly tap …

Spanish sporting success in July 2010 amply reflects the country’s overall stature in world sports at the moment and it is perhaps the most convincing argument yet why Spain is …

“Is Nigeria worth dying for?” asked the moderator at a recent event in Nigeria’s premier University, Ibadan some weeks ago. How apt? In a hall packed with young Nigerians in …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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…

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 …

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 …

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…

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 …