Category: Blog
Ex- Nigerian Footballers: The Unending Debate Of Neglect And The ROLE OF LAW (Part 2)
By Steve Austin Nwabueze
This article is the second and concluding part of a two-part paper artic [...]
Odegbami: Football in Nigeria is ‘Dead’, and Must be Saved NOW!
I have never found it more difficult to write about football in all the years of my writing than I d [...]
Ex-Nigerian Footballers: The Unending Debate of Neglect And Role of The Law (Part 1)
By Steve Austin Nwabueze
This article is the first part of a two - part paper articulating the le [...]
Odegbami: 59 Years Of Nigerian Sports!
The death of sports development!
Every year at about this time I receive requests from media org [...]
Odegbami: The Return of Authentic Sports Development
Ilorin, the capital city of Kwara State of Nigeria, has returned to normalcy after the frenzy of two [...]
Siasia And Integrity of Football: Application of Deterrence Theory of Criminal Jurisprudence Taken Too Far?
By Steve Austin Nwabueze
It has been a popular notion throughout the ages that fear of punishment c [...]
Odegbami: Between Nigeria, Sport, Apartheid and Xenophobia!
There is always something confounding about South Africa.
When I first heard the word ‘Apartheid [...]
Odegbami: Encounter With Samson Siasia – Forgotten so Soon?
To forget may be man’s greatest weakness.
We always forget. Even with the challenges we face on [...]
Odegbami: Sunday Dare – A new Sports Sherriff is in Town!
Something tells me Nigeria is entering an exciting new era in sports.
To start with, we have a ne [...]
Odegbami: Samson Siasia and FIFA’s Draconian Judgement!
The news was a bomb.
Samson Siasia, banned by FIFA for life and to pay a fine of $50,000 Dollars [...]