AMGA 2024: African Military Olympics …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>> I am writing this on Tuesday, December 2. The last days of AMGA 2024 took their toll on me. For a ‘young boy’ like me, it is not easy to combine sleep for only 3 hrs each night, daylight on the move, three whole meals a … Read more
‘Owoblow’ – The One-Man Army! –Odegbami …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>> Tribute to Dr. Felix Owolabi at 70 I don’t remember the very first time we met. It probably was on the football field, during a football match. Thinking back now, it could have been in 1977, during the epic FA Cup match that year when … Read more
African Military Games – Abuja 2024 –Odegbami …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>> Introduction The first African Military Games were held in Nairobi, Kenya between April 7 and 17, 2002. Organised under the auspices of Organization of Military Sports in Africa OSMA, and the International Military Sports Council, CISM, the first edition had 32 African countries in … Read more
Nigerian Sports Development… Between Sokoto And Sokoto! …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>> As a writer of a weekly column, sometimes I run out of subject to write about. The mind goes into ‘idle’ mode, blanketed by the innumerable moving parts of life. Scanning through my mind for the ‘bigger’ stories often obscures the smaller and, sometimes, … Read more
A Tribute By Segun Odegbami …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>> I am, therefore, retreating into history to pay some little, well-earned tribute to some special Nigerian soldiers in sports whose footprints are etched permanently in the sands of time. This is not an academic excursion into the history of the military in Nigerian sports. It is … Read more