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 […]