Opinion / Editorial

  In 2015, I was privileged to visit Arsenal’s training ground in London — a massive facility built on 48 hectares

Many people are quick to blame corruption or mismanagement whenever a team fails, but sometimes football simply reminds us that

  By Joshua Egbodo  President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration at the commencement of the 4th Republic initiated moves to review the 1999 Constitution of

    By Fely Mammah – Abuja   As Nigeria marked its 65th Independence Anniversary, the Executive Governor of Benue State, Rev. Dr. Fr.

  Festus Adedayo The earliest example of personal rule gone awry in the world was given in the biblical account of Eli,

By Farooq Kperogi Although former President Goodluck Jonathan hasn’t formally declared his intention to run for president, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu appears

  In the world of football, where glory and heartbreak are often two sides of the same coin, the role of

  By Abdulsalam Mahmud, I arrived in France with a quiet sense of awe, as though stepping into a place that had

  By Odogwu Patrick Ngwaogu  When Ibrahim Musa Gusau was elected President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) in Benin City on 30th

By Ernest Osogbue The federal government has backed up the recent statement by the Chairman of the National Sports Commission, Mallam

On 14 September 2025, the General Secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Dr. Mohammed Sanusi, sent a memo to

  By Babatunde Ogunrinde Nigeria’s outing at the Tokyo 2025 World Athletics Championships ended with one silver medal, flashes of brilliance, and

  By Sunday Dare  It was another journey to Kaduna by President Bola Tinubu. It was one to demonstrate the depth of

  By Fely Mammah | Abuja |  Benue State, long hailed as the “Food Basket of the Nation”, is once again finding

Long before Nigeria became a footballing powerhouse on the global stage, the beautiful game quietly took root on a modest

  Twelve years after Nigeria first bid to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games—and twenty years since it last hosted the African

On Thursday, 18 September 2025, the six months state of emergency declared in Rivers State on 18 March would have

  By Babafemi Ojudu “Very stubborn”—that is a phrase I have often heard used to describe me. Not only me, but also

  By Patrick Ngwaogu  John Mikel Obi remains one of Nigeria’s most celebrated footballers. As a former captain of the Super Eagles,

  Since its inauguration in 2013, the National Youth Games (NYG) has been a beacon of hope for Nigerian sports—a platform