WHAT most Nigerians thought was not possible, has become a stark reality. Wholly Nigerian Pay TV Company, HiTV has the exclusive rights to broadcast all the matches (including Play offs) when the UEFA Champions League football, regarded as the ‘‘biggest show on earth’’, begins on August 18.

On the campaign trail, President Barack Obama was always trying to squeeze in a game of pickup basketball, but since he’s been in Washington, golf has become the first pastime.

It would have been a hell of a story, wouldn’t it?”
Tom Watson summed things up perfectly in the immediate aftermath of his ultimately failed bid to provide us with the greatest script in the history of golf.

Former Super Eagles coach, Christian Chukwu has said that Austin Okocha should not be compelled to come out of retirement to salvage Nigeria from missing out on a place to among the 32 nations that would grace the soccer fields of South Africa, when the World Cup comes to Africa for the first time in 2010.

TWO Spanish football managers, Miguel Angel and Manuel Daniel, have declared that there are unknown Nigerian talents that could dislodge Fernando Torres from the Spanish national team. Angel and Daniel from Muzoz Rivas and Baizan Cares FC in Spain could not hide their admiration for Nigerian talents that they said that they would make stars out of the abundant talents that abound in Nigeria.

ENUGU — The sack of Christian Chukwu, Chief Technical Adviser of Rangers International of Enugu, has seriously been frowned at by players of the club.

FIFA Vice President Jack Warner yesterday described Bauchi as one of the best centres for the U-17 World Cup Nigeria will host from October.

So much work in such a short time, yet the ripples have not given way.Athletes have had to be moved from one hotel to another for reasons bothering on lean purses of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria. The new President, Solomon Ogba, knew how bad the situation was but never imagined the magnitude. And in trying to steer track and field from the rock bottom that he found it to a reasonable level, Ogba appears to be taking more than he can chew.

Former Chairman of Gombe State Football Association, Alhaji Ahmed Gara-Gombe has scored President of the Nigeria Football Association (NFF), Ahaji Sani Lulu Abdullahi low, stressing that he does not deserve to be returned as president when his tenure expires next year.

PATRIOTISM is a mere word, without meaning, and absent in government policies. Over time, governments of Nigeria have done little to impress on Nigerians the importance of loving our country.