BY KUNLE SOLAJA Running sports commentaries on electronic media – either radio or television or even any digital platform has not been the same, not just...
The class of 1990 to 1994 Cameroon Indomitable Lions has been paying tributes to their captain, Stephen Tataw who died in Yaoundé last Friday. Sports Village...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. On this date, 27 July 1991, Finidi George played his first match for the Super Eagles when he came in as a second...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Football sometimes offers more than players’ skills and overall teams’ results. It is left for imagination if a fashion show or catwalk were...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA There are two often significant but often-unrecalled goals in the 15-year career of Peter Rufai in the Super Eagles. The first was his...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Former Super Eagles’ midfielder, Sunday Oliseh belongs to the class of players to have run the full gamut for the national team. He...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Sierra Leone in 1949 was the team that Nigeria used to launch its national team into international football as the UK Tourists beat...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA Before the current social-distance protocol occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic, Nigeria’s Super Eagles had adopted it months earlier. On this date, 14 July...
Record-setting Chief Adegboye Onigbinde became the first indigenous coach to take the Super Eagles, then known as the Green Eagles, to the Africa Cup of Nations...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA Africa’s all-time sports philanthropist, Bashorun MKO Abiola died on this date 7 July 1998. He was the continent’s best-known sports financier. He died...