Different strokes for different folks.The NLC tried to make us believe that going on strike was the best way of making the government to restore the fuel subsidy. I believed them.
Last week end, the Nigeria Premier League for the 2012/2013 season kicked off, albeit unexpectedly.
While exchanging compliments of the season with the General Secretary of the NFF we thought it wise to pray for a year that should make us forget the night mare that was 2011. That is why one of my favorite wishes for the new year came from my friend Ibn Mohammed, who prayed for positive inputs from all of us, towards the betterment of our sports especially football in the coming year.
It all started with my appointment by CAF as one of the four General Coordinators for next year’s Nation’s Cup to be hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. By implication I was to be part of the draws to be hosted by Equatorial Guinea in Malabo.
We bring to you, an exclusive minute by minute account of the Super Falcons ouster in Yaounde, by an eye witness.
On Saturday in Yaounde I was held hostage by friends who had my contact details. General Emmanuel Okaro, Mr Linus Mba, Mike Idoko, Onochie Anibeze, Godwin Enakhena, Stephen of Akwa Ibom Broadcasting Corporation by calls and texts were bombarding me by the minute wanting updates on the crucial match between the Falcons and the Cameroun Female team.
Last week I had an alibi cast in iron. Last week I argued that since I was out of the country on that fateful day, I was not in a position to comment on our ouster from the Nations Cup.
If you expect me to write today about the Abuja dis grace last Saturday, then permit me to disappoint you. First of all, at the time that match was going on, I was on CAF duty in far away Tunisia.
From September 1-11 2011 in Ravenna Italy, Nigerians sat through a harrowing experience as their decimated beach soccer team, faced a herculean task in the 5th FIFA beach Soccer competition.
Last week I got a query from my boss Onochie Anibeze. He was not happy that I did not write. He sent me a text that had to do with me disappointing my readers, those who bought the paper on Monday expecting to read me, only to be disappointed.
