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CAF blunders again, by Patrick Omorodion

An African proverb says that the tortoise is always in the news but for the wrong reason. This is the position Africa’s football governing body, CAF has chosen to be

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Let basketball breathe again, by Patrick Omorodion

What goes around, they say, comes around. In 2017, the sports ministry, then headed by Solomon Dalung, brought out guidelines for elections into sports federations with an instruction that those

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London and noise, by Patrick Omorodion

Noise is “either joyful shouts of praise or the chaotic roar of war and the emptiness of loveless speech”. The noise we are hearing has to do with the 2026

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The truth FIFA must be told, by Patrick Omorodion

The Holy Bible tells us in the book of Matthew 2:1–12 how the wise men came from the East following a star to find Jesus when he was born. It

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Football bullies, by Patrick Omorodion

In Nigeria, we have three tiers of government. These are federal, state and local governments.  At the federal level, the president is the driver, the same way the governors and

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”Not Yet Uhuru”, by Patrick Omorodion

Uhuru, a Swahili word which means “freedom or independence” was popularized by Kenyan nationalist and leader Oginga Odinga who used it in the title of his 1967 autobiography, “Not Yet

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Inside Gusau’s ‘rotten’ NFF, by Patrick Omorodion

There is no story trending in Nigeria’s sports circle today that interests Nigerian football fans as the call on the leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF to either resign

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Fatality of Gusau’stenure, by Patrick Omorodion

Chief Lucky Igbinedion served as the Chairman of Oredo local government area of Edo state from 1987 to 1989. He did well in the eyes of the people. When he

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Whose time is it? By Patrick Omorodion

There is a saying in our local parlance that ‘if one man own no spoil, another man own no go better’.? This means that “One man’s loss is another man’s

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Dollarization of sports, by Patrick Omorodion

There is a popular adage which says that one should “make hay while the sun shines”. It simply means that you should make good use of a good a chance