Going back to the basics, by Patrick Omorodion
If talents are discovered very early and competitions are introduced for U-13, U-15 and U-17 categories, the country will have a big reservoir of athletes ready to fill the vacuums created when the older ones retire.
Is Peseiro a good cook?
By Patrick Omorodion A Yoruba adage says ‘obe to n dun, owo lo pa’. Meaning that it is money that makes a soup tasty. Really? I will say that it is not always the case. Money can get one all the best ingredients to make a tasty soup and yet the soup may turn out […]
Dwindling fortunes
By Patrick Omorodion “Fela, you don come again! I never come again”. That is the first line in Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo’s great song ‘Unknown Soldier’. I am starting this piece this way today because I know people who will say ‘Omorodion don come again’. Yes, I will never get tired of saying truth to […]
A dangerous dimension
By Patrick Omorodion The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF is like the proverbial tortoise that is always in the news, mostly for the wrong reasons. From late last year when the AFCON was barely a month to commence in Cameroon, till this moment, the federation has been embroiled in one controversy or another. The Amaju Pinnick-led […]
NFF’s sins against Nigeria
By Patrick Omorodion I grew up to hear of the adage, ‘Procrastination is the thief of time’. It was later I got to know it was coined by an English writer, Edward Young. Some wise men see procrastination as ‘a sin against life itself’. Even the Holy Bible tells us in James 4:17 that “if […]
‘Killing’ the monster in football
By Patrick Omorodion It was former Director General of the defunct National Sports Commission, NSC, Dr. Patrick Ekeji who wrote in his book, Odessey of A Green Eagle that every sports minister appointed to heads the sports ministry comes with a mindset. When this book was published, it was Abdulrahman Gimba, a Niger State-born lawyer […]
