Atletico Madrid stadium closure over racist abuse reversed
"The club's active collaboration, the identification of the person responsible and the fact that it was an isolated incident, carried out by a single person, allows us to affirm that the maximum possible diligence was taken by the club."
50 minutes to Japan, girls on strike and the P-Square fever
What a bizarre headline for a sports column. I owe you an explanation. As you are reading this, the victorious U-20 Women National team are less than six hours away from touch down at the Abuja Airport, on board Ethiopian Airlines from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ugbe as metaphor for Calabar’s success …. Women on the ball
This week, I have a double header. I want to talk about a veteran called Calabar and a fresh air that is the programme entitled Women on The Ball.
……Now that the leagues are ending
The story of Stephen Keshi and the Super Eagles can be better told next month. EARLY NEXT MONTH.
Namibia offers stadium to Eagles
John Muinjo is the Chairman of the Namibia Football Association. He was in Cairo last week for the FIFA Workshop for Elite Match Commissioners in Africa and that is where I met him.
El Clasico Nigeriana
On Saturday, the football world stood still for what is being referred to as the greatest club match in the world, Barcelona against Real Madrid, dubbed and rightly too as El Clasico.
Where is MTN Cup?
Time was when the South African football league was not worth even the effort Supersport was putting into popularizing same.
Money, the root of our football evil
Throughout the House of Representatives and Senate Committee sessions on sports, there was a consensus that money was the root of all our football woes.
Shakirudeen “Sunny”Badru (MFR) 1928-2012
This week, I had wanted to contribute to the Public hearing on sports held by the Senate last week, only to be torpedoed by the sudden death of one of Nigeria’s greatest referees, Sunny Badru.
Of Muamba, NFF and Nigerian clubs
Without quoting instances in our country’s chequered football history, many believed that if what happened to Fabrice Muamba in White Hart Lane during an English Premiership match between Tottenham Hotspurs and Bolton Wanderers was to be in Nigeria, then the young man would have died.
That the NFF Bill 2012 may be properly passed
Immediately after the meeting of the FIFA –CAF Consultative Committee last week in Lagos, I travelled out denying myself the full benefits of the reactions that followed our determination to step in and stem some of the anomalies rocking Nigeria’s football.
That victory in Kigali
This week I was expected to go back to the just concluded Nations Cup in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.
Lessons of AFCON, what lessons?
Onochie Anibeze and Tony Ubani, Group Sports Editor and Sports Editor of the Vanguard respectively accepted my apology for not being able to write during the Nations Cup.
Nigeria is not here …..Yes, I know
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.
A prayer for our league
Last week end, the Nigeria Premier League for the 2012/2013 season kicked off, albeit unexpectedly.
……Of earrings, nyanga football and Yakubu
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.
