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Ike Sorounmu – unfortunate poor treatment of a national hero!

Segun Odegbami Mar 25, 2023 0
BY the time you are reading this, I hope Victor Osimhen would have led the frontline of the Super Eagles to ‘destroy’ the national team of football minnows, Guinea Bissau,…
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‘Jos and the death of the Field Marshall’ – a small tribute!

Segun Odegbami Mar 18, 2023 0
At dawn of March 13, 2023, the 'Field Marshall' died. The sound of messages bombarding my phone woke me up that morning. The first came from my former classmate and…
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Sport in a New Nigeria

Segun Odegbami Mar 11, 2023 0
WHATEVER happens in the ongoing national elections in Nigeria, I predict that the country will never be the same again.  A new demography has joined the ongoing political ‘war’.…
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USA – graveyard becomes garden for Nigerian footballers 

Segun Odegbami Mar 4, 2023
IF Thompson Usiyen had not migrated to the USA when he did in 1976, but had waited to play during the last qualifier against Tunisia in 1977 for the 1978 World Cup, every Nigerian that…
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Sports and the Election fever – who I will NOT cast my single vote for! 

Segun Odegbami Feb 28, 2023
THIS is not the best of times to write about sport. Writing on any subject outside of the ongoing national elections in Nigeria would appear insensitive, particularly with the…
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Peter Fregene must not be abandoned!

Segun Odegbami Feb 18, 2023
NOT for the first time, pictures of Peter ‘Apo’ Fregene in a truly pathetic state, looking like a 100-year old man, unwell and dying, have inundated the information-superhighway. …
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Nigeria at the precipice – to crash or to fly!

Segun Odegbami Feb 11, 2023
BY the time you are reading this, I shall be in Oye Ekiti at the 7th Convocation of the Federal University, receiving an award that will occupy an enviable place amongst my chest of…
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Sports and education – fulfilment that money cannot buy!

Segun Odegbami Feb 4, 2023
THIS is for all young persons aspiring to a professional sports career, examined through my own story. Enjoy it. Two weeks ago, I received the good news that the Federal…
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At the Olympics, to win, you don’t have to come first – the story of Ajoke Odumosu!  

Segun Odegbami Jan 21, 2023
IN sport, winning is everything, but sometimes to win does not require coming First! This is a fundamental lesson, not just in sports but in all of life. But it takes sport to…
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Lesson in morality – how football jerseys landed me with the police!  

Segun Odegbami Jan 14, 2023
FORGIVE my little digression from hard-core sports. Instead, enjoy this little story of a particular day in my life.  I am 10 years old. I am with several of my age mates playing…
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