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Dear readers Adesoji Biyi, Mohammed Mahmoud from Kano, Orji Orji, Essien Lucky and numerous others, many thanks for being ardent followers of this page every Monday. I am humbled by your...... Read more Osimhen: Next Stop Napoli

Nigeria ought ordinarily to be a great country but the leaders over time have rubbished the supposedly all sufficient giant in the mud. Mischief and untold pretence by the leaders have...... Read more Congratulations NPFL, Other Football Stakeholders, Vincent Enyeama

What is constant in life is change. The change definitely is not the one the All Progressives Congress party used deceptively in 2015 to hoodwink unsuspecting but mostly ill-literate voters to...... Read more Osimhen’s Club Choice And The Mega Dollars, Happy Survival Awoniyi, Dare’s MKO Abiola Stadium Quit Notice Order

Thanks, dear readers, for your SMS thumbing up the high standard that has been maintained by the column over these years. I can vividly say that it was no man’s act...... Read more Late Okwaraji’s Mother, Dare’s National Stadium Lagos Committee Inauguration, NPFL Season Concluded!

Last week shortly after this page went to bed, the news of the demise of late Samuel Okwaraji’s Mother broke and it still trends. Let me say that Samuel, a former...... Read more Cheering News As Ighalo Reconsiders Super Eagles Come Back, Osimhen Shines On!!

I don’t know where l have gone wrong saying things as it is, while analyzing events in this weekly column, that would again warrant sponsored venoms from those l have oftentimes...... Read more Now That Rohr Is In, Yobo Must Brace Up To Justify His Selection

At last, after much hassle, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) confirmed the second term contract of Franco-German technical hand of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr thereby reaffirming the stand of this...... Read more Congratulations to Legendary Emmanuel Okala, Gernot Rohr

As this page was preparing to go to bed, two major strictly football matters of importance cropped up. I felt it will be a great disservice to this generation of both...... Read more Employment of Eagles Foreign Coach: Sunday Dare’s Wrong Declaration

Heads or tails, it is a minus for Nigerian football as the renewal of Gernot Rohr’s contract developed a big K-leg, if the statement quoting the Sports Minister, Sunday Dare, that...... Read more Gara Gombe’s Stunning Revelations On Sports Minister, His Gangsters And Recent Athletes’ Palliatives’

Of a truth, the last is yet to be heard on the NFF/Gernot Rohr contract renewal as the hide and seek game from both camps continue. One can safely say that...... Read more Why NFF Should Listen To Gara Gombe Now, Rohr’s Insight On Contract Renewal

No doubt Covid-19 pandemic has put big K-leg in all facets of the World’s programme and to further put it mildly, things won’t be same for long time to come. It...... Read more Big Football Competition, Ewu Cup, Slated For Delta State In November; Rolly FC Provides COVID-19 Succour To Refs, Others In Benin City

The 10th edition of the Ewu kingdom Peace Cup football competition has been scheduled to hold in November as Delta State, like the rest of Nigeria and the international community continues...... Read more Liverpool’s Rejection Of Fallen Coutinho Is Justifiable

Arsenal have reportedly pulled out of negotiations with their captain and Gabonese striker Pierre Emeryk Aubameyang after they had tried to get the goal poacher to renew his contract with the...... Read more What Are Plans For Post-Covid-19 Reconstruction of Football, Sports In Nigeria?

Last week, this page extensively treated NFF/Rohr face-off, the immediate and remote causes. This columnist after narrating and balancing the arguments from analysts and pundits, came up with a verdict that...... Read more French Football Agent Collingnon Advises Talented Young African Players Not To Start Foreign Careers With Big European Clubs

A top French football agent Benard Collingnon has advised young players from African to opt against starting their careers with top European clubs, describing it as a wrong path from which...... Read more Laloko’s Revisionist Criticism of Westerhof Is unfortunate

Former Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Technical Director Kashimawo Laloko has stirred the hornet's nest as he let out his outburst against the rumored interest of ex-Super Eagles Technical Adviser Clemence Westerhoff...... Read more As Covid-19 Pandemic Ravages, NFF Foot-drags on Rohr’s Contract

Presently, it is not a normal time in Nigeria and the globe, however this write-up would restrict itself to Nigeria due to the chaotic state of the country. This nonsense that...... Read more Victor Osimhen Talks About His Rise From Grassroots Football To Rejecting Arsenal

It was a suffocatingly warm afternoon in Lagos and the stench of the Olusosun landfill smothered the nearby village. The largest dump in all of Africa, each day hundreds of locals...... Read more NFF and Rohr Saga: ‘If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It’

It has looked exactly like it but the Nigeria Football Federation Chairman Amaju Pinnick recently laboured to explain that the national football body weren’t actively seeking to force out the Super...... Read more NFF’s Dirty Politics on Renewal of Gernot Rohr’s Contract

I don’t know if you have been following the dirty drama called football politics which the President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, and his allies have been shamelessly...... Read more The Rise Of Mason Mount And What Others Can Learn From Him

Some young players fold up easily in the face of a stack of evidence on why they won’t probably be successful in football. Some others, with a determination of high proportions,...... Read more Coronavirus: Osimhen Finds Innovative Way To Give To Nigerians

This is the time that calls out for men and women with large hearts. As the global coronavirus pandemic stifles humanity, fills hospital wards and overwhelms morgues all over the world...... Read more COVID-19’s Deadly Blow On Sports, Others: Call For Quick Solution

Heads or tails, it is not a normal time in the World as a result of the COVID–19 pandemic ravaging the entire globe which is almost overwhelming even to the medically...... Read more ‘NEVER, I’m Not Afraid Coronavirus Will Stop Football,’ Says ‘Zlatan’

One of Nigerian grassroots most feared strikers Precious Ediae has been forced, like almost everybody else all over the world, to largely sit at home as a safety precaution against the...... Read more Cesc Fabregas Should Shut Up About Arsenal, He’s A Legend Of No Club

Former Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas has been speaking recently about his former club Arsenal and how he left the team in unpalatable circumstances. The Spaniard spoke about why and how he...... Read more