There is a song ‘between the devil and the deep blue see’ done in the early 1930s. It was commonly recorded by artists such as Cab Calloway and Frank Sinatra. The lyrics have a chorus that goes thus: I don’t want you but I hate to lose you, you have put me in between the […]

In Romans 12:19, we are told that vengeance is God’s. People are warned against personal vengeance – a common ‘below the belt’ tactic. Below the belt phrase originates from boxing rules and describes tactics that are considered low, dishonest, or dishonorable. This is exactly what the Morocco Football Federation has done to CAF and the […]

A cousin of mine once said in pidgin English, that “if somebody do wetin you no fit do, make you hail am because e no easy”. That is my honest advice to all the 36 States of the Federal Republic of Nigeria plus the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. And they should be thanking the Niger […]

In sports, you either win or lose. But in the spirit of Olympism, everybody is a winner. That is why it is said the joy of the Olympics is in participation. In football, to drive home the fact that winning is not everything, the world governing body, FIFA preaches Fair Play at all times. And […]

World renowned Afrobeat king, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti sang a song ‘When cat sleep, rat go bite him tail, wetin he dey find?’. Trouble, or confusion, or abuses, if you like. Fela called it ‘palava’. This is exactly what our Delta-born Debonair football administrator, Melvin Amaju Pinnick, who is always proud to call himself ‘Warri boy’ has […]

The great Jamaican reggae crooner, Robert Nesta Marley, aka Bob Marley in the lyrics of his song, ‘Who The Cap Fit’, has a line thus: ‘Who Jah Bless, No One Curse”. The song must have been inspired by his reading of the book of Numbers in the Holy Bible. And it actually addresses hypocrisy and […]

There is an adage which says once bitten twice shy. That was what Morocco thought to itself after they lost the 2010 World Cup hosting right to South Africa. Former FIFA president, Sepp Blatter wanted to compensate Africa for the support the continent gave him all the years his mandate as head of the world […]

One thing I took out of the 2025 African Nations Cup, AFCON which ended in Morocco last Sunday was not the organizational ability of the host which was commended by Europeans who hardly see anything good coming out of Africa. It wasn’t even the standard of football displayed by all the teams which one of […]

In 1977 during the first tenure of Olusegun Obasanjo as a military Head of State, the government had issues with Fela Anikulapo-Kuti over his caustic criticisms of the regime. One fateful day, February 18, 1977, a senior military officer ordered about a thousand soldiers to invade Fela’s home he named Kalakuta Republic. They beat up […]

My dad, late Pa Robinson Omorodion (may God bless his soul) used to tell us that at a certain point in a man’s life, he should pause and ask himself a question. That is mostly when almost everything he does portrays him in bad light or attracts negative comments about his actions or inactions. That […]

Towards the 1993 general election in Nigeria, one of the candidates in the presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola used the above title as his campaign slogan. Today I use it, not for a political campaign but for the round of 16 football battle the Super Eagles would be going into at the 2025 AFCON in […]

For 29 days beginning from today, all eyes would be focused on Morocco, the new bride of the Confederation of African Football, CAF and Federation of International Football Associations, FIFA, as they host the 30th edition of the African Nations Cup, AFCON. This competition holds every two years and on even number days until 2013 […]

The phrase ‘Sword of Democles’ is described as an impending doom, a situation where someone lives under the threat of a sudden, catastrophic event or danger. That is exactly what Nigeria sports is facing now. In exactly forty eight hours from today if nothing is done to clear the doubts of the Athletics Integrity Unit, […]

The Bible tells us in Ecclesiastes 3 and verse one that “there is time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” One African proverb says that if one over stays in a latrine, he would begin to see flies of different colours. This means that if you don’t quit from a […]

In 2014, some members of the All Progressive Congress, APC then in the opposition came together to hound Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP out of government. Part of their reasons was that President Jonathan was planning to remove fuel subsidy, an action they said would worsen the plight of Nigerians. Ten years […]