Antelopes do not fly. That’s why I often wondered why Rangers International Football Club of Enugu are nicknamed ‘the Flying…
Except you are a die-hard football fan, a serious documenter of Nigeria’s football history, and above 50 years of age,…
By Gboyega Okegbenro This day, August 27th, exactly 70 years ago in 1952, a star was born into the family…
Any one born after 1978 may not have heard, or may not know about Adekunle Awesu [pictured above] and may…
We have been in a sprints race against Time! We were 20, or so, at the start of the race.…
Sport is presently slave labour in Nigeria. Without exaggerating, and I am asserting with all sense of responsibility, most athletes…
Several years ago, my team, IICC Shooting Stars FC, went to play a continental club match in Malawi. On the…
Today, again, I am going back in history to an unforgettable day in the calendar of Nigerian football. I don’t…
Forty years ago – precisely on March 22, 1980, Nigeria won her first Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) title after…
I shall be in Ibadan next week. Why should that be news? Well, it really should not be, but it…
