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Survival Of Golden Eaglets And Qualification For U-17 World Cup Summit: Any Lesson To Learn?

This is not volte-face or anything near it. That Golden Eaglets qualified for the finals of WAFU championship will not change my perspective on the status of the lame duck like...... Read more Flying Eagles, Enyimba: Nigerian Football At Cross Roads

Although I knowingly ignored writing on the dismal performance of the Flying Eagles, majority of readers of Daily Sports (www.dailysportsng.com) insisted I do something last week on the poor outing that...... Read more Al Merreikh FC Challenge: Enyimba on Date with History

This week, we will continue with the forthcoming crucial and critical second leg tie between host Enyimba International FC and yet another dreaded opponent, AL Merreikh FC of Sudan, that handed...... Read more CAF Champs League Second Leg: What Enyimba Needs To Conquer

It is no longer news the result of last week’s CAF Champs League in the often dangerous city of Omdurman, Sudan, where the highly technical side, Al Merreikh FC hosted the...... Read more Governor Gboyega Oyetola’s Sadism, Insensitivity On The Plight of Osun Babes FC

As keen followers of Nigerian football especially, you would agree with me that many things have happened this past week and this column yet again would point at them briefly as...... Read more CAF Champions Leagues Second Stage: Enyimba, Be Vigilant!

Readers, yes, we did not interact last week on this page due to an on the spur of the moment, official assignment that did not give me notice to duly inform...... Read more Sunday Dare’s Intending Misadventure in Football; Who Sent Him?

Dear readers, I was in Benin Edo State for the burial of one of the daring sports journalists in Nigeria, late Anthony Obaseki. It was heartbreaking seeing the crowd that came...... Read more That Rohr’s, Amaju’s Super Eagles Sef

I’m not going to dwell much on immediate and remote causes of the kind of result Super Eagles posted on Friday in an AFCON qualifier against the Leone Star team inside...... Read more Nigerian State, AFCON Qualifier, Anthony Obaseki . . .

Without doubt, the curtain is gradually drawing on year 2020 with its attendant hitches. Needless itemizing them here, however Nigeria as one country that plans against earthquake on the eve of...... Read more Anthony Obaseki: Death Of One of Nigeria’s Finest Sports Journalists

Dear, most preferred readers of Daily Sports and this page every Monday morning. Thank you most sincerely for your genuine love for your GOOGLE Compliant and soar away digital all sports...... Read more Super Eagles Two-Legged Int’l Friendlies: Matters Arising

Last week, the Super Eagles played two international friendly games against two first rate African football playing countries with high pedigrees, Algeria and Tunisia during the FIFA widow. The result of...... Read more Super Eagles' Impending Friendlies

Although Nigeria is 60 years, it is still ‘wobbling and fumbling’ in all ramifications. Presently a section of the country is blocked from sitting in the country’s Security Council solely spear...... Read more Amaju Pinnick’s Appointment of Ladan Bosso as Flying Eagles Head Coach, A Ridiculous, Blunder

If one concludes that Nigeria is a country of absurdity, it won’t in any form pass as an overstatement. This is the home truth that unsuspecting Nigerians face today in all...... Read more Miscellaneous Issues Arising In Nigerian Football

Nigeria, with her policy somersaults at all levels has remained stuck, while attracting to herself such unenviable names as an unready, sharply divided nation that is sitting on the keg of...... Read more Kwara State Government’s Fond Gesture to Rashidi Yekini

As you know, one of the best leagues in the globe, the very crowd pulling English Premiership kicked off last week Saturday and from day one proved book makers dead wrong....... Read more Plateau, Enyimba, Pillars, Rivers Brace Up for African Championship Challenge

If I don’t open this piece this way this week, then I don’t need to look too far if I earn for my good self, the unenviable name of an ungrateful...... Read more Ranting of An Ant, ‘James Amadi’s Failed Mission

Your very authentic, authoritative and influential all sports digital newspaper, Daily Sports ace columnist and Managing Editor, Victor Enyinnaya came under attack by one of the attack dogs of Rivers State...... Read more Boma Iyaya’s Goof on NPFL’s Decision On 2019/2020 Season

Boma Iyaya has been Commissioner of Sports in Rivers State since the inception of the very performing administration of Governor Nyesom E. Wike and I must confess he has worked at...... Read more Bayern’s Barcelona Massacre, Gov. Makinde’s Foresight For Lekan Salami Stadium

There is no gainsaying the fact that this is no normal time in Nigeria and we don’t need any soothsayer to tell us that, but unfortunately this regime’s information managers are...... Read more Congratulations Eagles, Plateau, Enyimba, Rivers United

Objective observers within and outside Nigeria would agree that what is currently happening in Nigeria’s political terrain calls for mourning for a once upon a time beloved country. Once of such...... Read more Forward With Eyitayo Olayinka Jegede SAN, Sportsman Extraordinaire, Consummate Politician

As you must have heard, our man, Victor Osimhen, has finally settled to lace his boots for one of Italian giants, Napoli FC. It’s obviously an accomplishment every fan and football...... Read more Coach Ndubisi Egbo, Victor Osimhen’s Finest Hour

As widely reported, Napoli FC Italy has finally agreed in terms with leggy sensational and Nigerian international, Victor Osimhen on a whopping 60 million Dollars and thus baring any hitch, the...... Read more Nigerian Football without Oyewole, Ukaigwe Huge Loss!!!

Last week yet witnessed or was a dark period for sports especially football, that lost two major stakeholders to the cold hands of death as the saying goes but honestly I...... Read more Rohr’s Alarm on 2022, Victor Osimhen, the Search Continues, Congratulations, NPFL

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