The appointment of Samson Yebowei Siasia as the substantive Super Eagles coach could signal a positive new beginning for the team if he is allowed to work free of our entire well talked about vices as a Nation. It’s been the desire of most fans of the game in Nigeria to have the Bayelsan tutor [...]

It was so disheartening to see how our own ‘Mr. Fix It’ Dr. Amos Adamu became the laughing stock of the world as he was caught negotiating for monetary consideration to vote for the USA in their bid to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The US willingly dropped out of contention for the competition [...]

  Nigeria eventually ‘worked’ her way out of the FIFA ban temporarily and the game against Guinea was confirmed as our players jetted out to meet what I term their Waterloo. The game was played this evening but it was nothing to write home about. I’ve said on this forum many times that our so-called [...]

  I was driving home yesterday when I heard on Brila FM that Nigeria has been suspended till further notice by FIFA due to what the organization termed as government interference in football matters. Much as I would not want to dwell on the stance of the Zurich based world football body concerning football administration [...]

The sorry story of the Nigerian Football Federation continued when the Courts decided that the elections held some weeks ago was not in order. Prior to that election, some aggrieved aspirants went to court to stop it due to what they claimed to be irregularities both in the process leading to and the conduct of [...]

As the Super Eagles filed out against Madagascar yesterday at the U.J Esuene stadium in Calabar, nothing seems to have drastically changed from the team that represented us in the last world cup in South Africa. We still have with us Joseph Yobo and Daniel Shittu. While Taye Taiwo was left out for Valentine Nwamili, [...]

The elections into the board of the Nigerian Football Federation, NFF was held yesterday despite a court injunction stopping it. And as the script was written, Aminu Maigari defeated others to emerge the 38th President (or is it Chairman?) since the inception of the association in 1945. Maigari, who was the erstwhile Finance Director under [...]

When Nigeria qualified for the USA 1994 FIFA World Cup, the whole nation rightly celebrated and rejoiced as we had never made it that far in world football. We not only qualified; we went to the tournament as Africa’s champion after we won the Nations Cup in Tunisia. We did well at the World Cup [...]

  Nigeria, as usual, through the numerous unqualified and corrupt people in sport administration was brought into ridicule again. This time, it is the unmitigated corruption that has eaten deep into the fabrics of Nigerian Football Federation. Unraveling the way funds were appropriated in the past few months is now the preoccupation of  the EFCC.   [...]

The world cup has come and gone and Africa can hold her head high in esteem for a job well done through one of her numerous children, South Africa. Personally, ‘am so proud of the achievement of that country that I can’t help but be envious of what they accomplished. The same South Africa that [...]