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Segun Odegbami

26 Aug 2023
I am writing this on Friday morning. A new Minister of Sports for Nigeria has been in office for one week. The sports fraternity welcomes him to the beleaguered sector.
5 Aug 2023
The event was not ordinary, but clearly historic. And therefore embarking on the trip from the United States of America to Lagos was worth the while for Olympian, Ruks Bazunu.
15 Jul 2023
It happened on Thursday night at the Yar’Adua Conference Centre, Abuja. Some of the most outstanding athletes in Nigeria's Olympic sports in the past six decades (therefore all Olympians), assembled for a special bi-annual re-union organised to remind their government and prick the conscience...
15 Jul 2023
Former international and football legend, Segun Odegbami, has commended Air Peace for the proposed Diplomacy Wall of Fame initiative to be unveiled in Lagos on July 28.
8 Jul 2023
On this special day, I humbly seek the permission of all that are reading this to hide under the license of my column to delve into elementary philosophy. Life is too complex a subject for me to attempt to x-ray mine in any other way.
24 Jun 2023
An event last week is nudging me back to a subject I have avoided for a long time in my sports discourse - Nigerian football.
10 Jun 2023
As far as I can recall, it has never happened quite like this in Nigeria’s sports history. I mean, for stakeholders (not all of them though, admittedly) to come together at the end of the tenure of a Sports minister and fete him for doing well. I should know, having been in the corridors of…
3 Jun 2023
It was in 1992, at the finals of the 4x100 metres relay race of the Barcelona Olympic Games in Spain.
27 May 2023
I am delving into history. The past has always been my compass into the future on the issue of the Nigerian Institute for Sports, NIS. This is because the past was glorious.
20 May 2023
“I am lucky to have left Nigeria early” – Jay Jay Okocha. The-above are the words of one of the greatest players in Nigeria’s football history. Austin Jay Jay Okocha’s words speak volumes, particularly, directly to the state of football development in Nigeria.
13 May 2023
I know Kashim Shettima, the vice president-elect of Nigeria, but not well enough to say much about him beyond my single physical encounter with the man, and a few telephone calls later, in the course of a story that must be told, not for any political reasons, but because it will throw a little light on the persona of the man.
29 Apr 2023
I don come again o. I will never be deterred, nor will I be tired of repeating myself on this particular issue like a broken record.

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