I have been in hibernation for two weeks, high up in the hills of Wasimi in Ogun State buried in work. As a result, I failed to catch up with some major sports news. I missed Raphael Nadal’s loss in the first round at Roland Garros. I missed Manchester United’s surprise defeat of my favourite…
Former Super Falcons player Iyabo Abade, now a man and renamed James Johnson, has begged the Nigeria Football Federation to assist him with the payment of N69.7m to facilitate a corrective surgery that will enable him bear children. Johnson, a confirmed hermaphrodite, was a member of the Falcons from 1997 to 2000 and successfully underwent…
Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets have defeated hosts Ghana 3-2 to claim third position at the WAFU B U-17 Championship. Imrana Muhammad gave Nigeria the lead in the ninth minute. The Black Starlets fought back, with Harve Gbafa netting the equaliser 10 minutes later. Gbafa scored his second goal of the game three minutes before half hour…
Professional boxer and global icon Mike Tyson, 57, had a health emergency while on an American Airlines flight from Miami to Los Angeles. According to his representatives, Tyson became nauseous and dizzy due to an ulcer flare-up just 30 minutes before the plane was scheduled to land. Fortunately, the health scare did not escalate, and…
I do not have any of the answers to the three questions but I have experiences that span almost 50 years since I played my first serious football competition as a teenager in my first year in Ibadan after leaving Jos at 18. These past two days, foremost African Cinematographer, Tunde Kelani, and I have…
A London based Nigerian-British boxer, Sherif Lawal, has died of head injury sustained during his professional debut. The 29-year-old was knocked down by a blow to the head from Portuguese opponent Malam Varela in the fourth round of a scheduled six-round middleweight fight on Sunday at Harrow Leisure Centre, London, the UK. According to CBS,…
Chief Dr. Segun Odegbami, Nigerian Ex International, has described the Air Peace boss, Allen Onyema as an uncommon philantropist. In a Facebook post he tagged “Allen Onyema, caught in the act”, Odegbami narrated his experience with the businessman in Lagos home. Odegbami, who was an integral part of the Green Eagles team that won the…
Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan stormed to a big win in the women’s 100m hurdles at the Jamaica Athletics Invitational on Sunday. Amusan clocked a season’s best of 12.40s to win the race. The 27-year-old beat Jamaica’s Danielle Williams, who ran 12.46s, while Christina Clemons of the United States of America was third in 12.54s. Amusan has…
South African club, Kaizer Chiefs have been put away by the heavy price tag of Super Eagles goalkeeper, Stanley Nwabali. Chiefs, according to reports in South Africa have keen interest in the shot stopper but can’t afford his R30m (approximately £1.3m) transfer fee. Nwabali has been linked with several clubs since his impressive performance for…
On December 26th in the year 1908, an igbo man from Anambra, always with his eririozo on his legs, popularly known as Nduka Jack Johnson became the first African American World Heavyweight Boxing Champion by knocking out Tommy Burns. For years America would not show this image of a blackman knocking out a white man….
