So long Dr. Adamu Friday, 22 October 2010 03:27 WATCH DOG By Patrick Andrew This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it He has been variously described as an enigma, the proverbial cat with nine lives, mister fix it, the chief puppeteer, the gaffer, the lord of the manor, the man about town, the one that bestrides Nigeria’s sporting space like collossus. |
Ekeji, how not to be a genius Thursday, 07 October 2010 23:16 WATCH DOG By Patrick Andrew This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Since, the Super Eagles misadventure in South Africa last June during the 2010 World Cup and the subsequent turmoil it generated in our domestic football, the threat had hovered over Nigeria like the Sword of Damocles. Nigeria’s Golden Jubilee not so golden Friday, 01 October 2010 07:03 WATCH DOG By Patrick Andrew This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Nobody loves sad tales, but inevitable circumstances could impose recurrent bile of repulsive tales on the table. That’s it. Nigeria is a tale, not with the less than pleasant experiences in all sectors of its national life. NOC Elections: Unnecessary muscles flexing Friday, 24 September 2010 04:29 WATCH DOG By Patrick Andrew This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Exactly a week today the Nigeria Olympics Committee (NOC) came under discussion on this page. The sudden deftness with which sports federations chairmen have assumed authority and taken charge of the driving wheel of Nigeria’s domestic sports administration, and in the process, demonstrated their sterling qualities in matters of electing one of their own was heralded as the beginning of a new era in Nigerian sports politics. NOC: Chance for refreshing rebirth Friday, 17 September 2010 04:47 WATCH DOG By Patrick Andrew This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Gone were the days when talks about Kaduna Mafia were simply palpable and it had a certain delectable if puzzling ardour to impressionable youths like us Lagosians in the 1980s. Whether it was real or the figment of imagination of few ingenious persons, the fear of the Kaduna Mafia, whose members were supposedly to be found largely in the military, was to a typical starry eye ‘omo eko’, the beginning of wisdom and perhaps the foundation of seething distrust. | Amazons are showing the way in Nigerian sports Thursday, 09 September 2010 23:54 WATCH DOG By Patrick Andrew This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Little we did know that FIFA’s slogan: ‘the future is feminine’ would have a prophetic fulfilment in Nigeria sooner than later. Indeed, amidst the palpable administrative waywardness especially in football, the amazons on all spheres have continued to beam ray of light, and perhaps, are the only glowing flame in the country’s be-darkened sports scene. FA chairmen as the new face of football Friday, 03 September 2010 06:33 WATCH DOG By Patrick Andrew This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it August 26 will linger in the mind for awhile. And not without reasons: Perhaps foremost of these being the fact that State Football Association chairmen for the first time in the history of the game in the country made themselves truly relevant, and in fact the deciding factor in a crucial NFF executive Committee elections. NFF elections: Daring the dragon Friday, 27 August 2010 03:06 WATCH DOG By Patrick Andrew This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it So, State Football Association chairmen have had their way: defied two Federal High Court injunctions to hold their elective congress where the executive committee members were elected yesterday. Six days ago, they were barely restrained from conducting the exercise by Sports Minister, Ibrahim Isa Bio, Who is afraid of postponing the NFF polls? Friday, 20 August 2010 01:56 WATCH DOG By Patrick Andrew This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it I have pondered over this question severally, as I am sure not a few others have similarly done so. Without belabouring the various contending issues, it bears repeating that the major contentions against the elective congress of the Nigeria Football Federation and ultimately elections into the board of the NFF are the skewed processes which preceded tomorrow’s scheduled exercise. |
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