Perspective from Sport

Happy New Year!! I trust this year will be our best year ever. The Nigerian football world was thrown into mourning on New Year's day. This occurred following the announcement of the former IICC (3SC of Ibadan) and Abiola Babes goalkeeper Raymond King's passing. On Sunday morning as I was preparing for church, I saw a post on Facebook by former international player Taju Disu. In the post, he made a passionate plea to the members of the public to contribute money to fund Raymond Kings's medical treatment. At that point, he was critically ill, on the verge of death. Unfortunately, he passed away on the 1st of January, 2018. The first time I ever heard of Raymond King (popularly called Ramoni Oba by IICC shooting fans ) was in 1984 during CAF Champions League ( formerly known as African Cup of Champions Club). It was the final game between IICC Shooting Stars of Ibadan and Zamalek of Egypt. Shooting Stars had previously lost the first leg of the finals. They had ho...

Hello everyone,  Whao!!! It has been such a long time but it's nice to be doing this again.  At last the circumstances surrounding the appointment of the Super Eagles manager has been resolved. The "Big Boss" Stephen Keshi has surmounted all the odds to be reappointed for the second time after his contract ran out at the end of the Super Eagles World Cup campaign.  Following after that came a barrage of internal crisis that rocked the football administration, tranquillity eventually returned to the Football house after Amaju Pinick (Former Delta State Football Association chairman) was elected as the president of the Football Federation. The Nigeria Football Federation Executive election normally comes on after the World Cup, and there has been battles for the leadership position of the board dating back to three election periods. The result of the board room politics usually have it's effect on the game. At least, part of the reason why Nigeria failed to q...