Football teams that have registered for the much anticipated Alimosho Football Coaches Council Under-16 League have been warned to desist from all sorts of football unprofessionalism that can bring the league and football into disrepute. According to the leader of Alimosho Football Coaches Council, Mr. Samuel Uchenna Eke: "We want to do better than last…

Nigerian football is at that juncture where every decision taken by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and stakeholders in every aspect of the country’s football must be right.

Today, Nigerian football is beset with very many challenges. That’s why despite the abundance of talent in the country, taking domestic Nigerian football to another level has become seemingly impossible. It has been stuck for almost three decades now in the mud of ignorance.

It's early June, the weather is pristine, the stage is set, as an all important 2010 AFCON/World cup qualifier is about to get underway, with the Super Eagles squaring up against the Harambee Stars of Kenya at the National stadium Abuja (now christened the M.K.O Abiola stadium). We had barely taken our seats with fans…

Enugu State is a place often synonymous with Coal hence its slogan “The Coal City State” but it is anything but just a coal entity as it’s a state that has constantly churned out talents on the football pitch and is home to perhaps the most famous club in the East and in Nigeria -…

Success does not come by chance. It follows well-thought-out plans, nurtured and pursued until the desired result is achieved. Morocco’s march to the semifinals of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar was not fortuitous. It was the result of a carefully planned programme that has seen the country’s clubs and women's football teams dominating African football. Morocco has followed a distinct pattern earlier adopted by the sport’s bigwigs like Germany, France, and Spain.[

An event last week is nudging me back to a subject I have avoided for a long time in my sports discourse - Nigerian football.