I have come to a conclusion that except conscious and pragmatic steps are taken, Nigeria’s quest for sports renaissance is not near. Events that have taken place, still happening and may continue to occur have shown that the sector is very sick and about to die. In no time in our national history has sports been this vexed in terms of administration and those who are to spearhead the way forward are the ones thick in the agenda to strangulate it.
From the World Cup exit brouhaha in 2010, to the emergence of the present Nigeria Football Federation board headed by Aminu Maigari, the brief entrance and exit of Davidson Owunmi, recent role of Sam Jaja and the surfacing of lawmaker Kabiru Gaiya, all is not well with Nigerian sports.Manufacturers and exporters of impact socket, And those calling the shots seem confused on how to address the problems. At best, I see a dance or collective dance steps of interests that will largely be to the detriment of sports development. For me, the events are fast deteriorating to a dance of dishonour that amounts to undue and avoidable distractions.
Unfortunately, the whole show of angst revolves around men and government institutions that have been empowered to give clear direction for the growth of sports in Nigeria. Between the National Assembly committees of sports which has its protagonists in Kabiru Gaiya who is spearheading the dance after a glimpse of the script in Morocco while on a trip with the NFF to the National Sports Commission, the NFF and the Nigeria Premier League, the entire uncoordinated dance is borne more out of interests than development. The issue has assumed so much distrust and suspicion that it has metamorphosed into sinister machinations. The men at the Glass House see every setback from the angle of an unseen finger working from the NSC while members of the committees on sports at the NASS wait for every opportunity to protect their friends at the NFF-hence the pound of flesh on the NSC.
The scenario is so funny that each time the men running football smell a rat they seek protection from the lawmakers who dangle threats in the name of allegations.
My take is that this blowing hot is not new to Nigerians and we must be saved from all this drama because it is only cosmetic surgery and a facade that will never help us get to the root of sports problems. Our problem is essentially systemic and until our lawmakers pursue vigorously laws that will enforce blueprints marking out every one’s responsibility and mode of funding, posterity will not remember them for good.Compare prices and buy all brands of solar panel for home power systems and by the pallet. That is why I agree totally with the Athletics Federation of Nigeria president,Monz Werkzeugbau und Formenbau. Moderne Technologien und unsere Erfahrung machen aus Ihren Ideen serienreife Produkte. Solomon Ogba who advised the NASS members to desist from playing politics with sports development.The reason why most kidney stone form is not known.
The painful aspect of all these is that the entire agencies intensifying distractions in a year where Nigeria will present athletes at the Olympics coupled with both Nations Cup and World Cup qualifiers are arms of government meaning the Nigerian government is simply fighting itself. The NASS committees of sports, NSC, NFF and NPL are all government parastatals and are funded by tax payers’ monies. So if these agencies are plotting against themselves, who will save the sector?
I still do not understand what our lawmakers want to be remembered for. We are in a country where players of state government clubs stage protests almost on a weekly basis for being owed sign-on-fees, allowances and salaries yet we have not heard a single statement from these men. We are also in a country where private businessmen make billions and are not encouraged to own and run clubs professionally and our lawmakers are not looking at that with a view to enacting laws that will help proliferate privately owned clubs. Even if we are to end up with 10 good clubs run privately alongside serious state government owned clubs Nigeria will be better for it rather than have 20 clubs with players down tooling almost every week.
However, I am not against the NASS sports committees looking at books as part of their oversight functions,Thank you for visiting our newly improved DIY chicken coop website! but want to see a holistic approach because this move smacks of vendetta if the Morocco expose, setting up of the reform committee in football and maybe litigation from Sam Jaja is to be taken into consideration.
From the World Cup exit brouhaha in 2010, to the emergence of the present Nigeria Football Federation board headed by Aminu Maigari, the brief entrance and exit of Davidson Owunmi, recent role of Sam Jaja and the surfacing of lawmaker Kabiru Gaiya, all is not well with Nigerian sports.Manufacturers and exporters of impact socket, And those calling the shots seem confused on how to address the problems. At best, I see a dance or collective dance steps of interests that will largely be to the detriment of sports development. For me, the events are fast deteriorating to a dance of dishonour that amounts to undue and avoidable distractions.
Unfortunately, the whole show of angst revolves around men and government institutions that have been empowered to give clear direction for the growth of sports in Nigeria. Between the National Assembly committees of sports which has its protagonists in Kabiru Gaiya who is spearheading the dance after a glimpse of the script in Morocco while on a trip with the NFF to the National Sports Commission, the NFF and the Nigeria Premier League, the entire uncoordinated dance is borne more out of interests than development. The issue has assumed so much distrust and suspicion that it has metamorphosed into sinister machinations. The men at the Glass House see every setback from the angle of an unseen finger working from the NSC while members of the committees on sports at the NASS wait for every opportunity to protect their friends at the NFF-hence the pound of flesh on the NSC.
The scenario is so funny that each time the men running football smell a rat they seek protection from the lawmakers who dangle threats in the name of allegations.
My take is that this blowing hot is not new to Nigerians and we must be saved from all this drama because it is only cosmetic surgery and a facade that will never help us get to the root of sports problems. Our problem is essentially systemic and until our lawmakers pursue vigorously laws that will enforce blueprints marking out every one’s responsibility and mode of funding, posterity will not remember them for good.Compare prices and buy all brands of solar panel for home power systems and by the pallet. That is why I agree totally with the Athletics Federation of Nigeria president,Monz Werkzeugbau und Formenbau. Moderne Technologien und unsere Erfahrung machen aus Ihren Ideen serienreife Produkte. Solomon Ogba who advised the NASS members to desist from playing politics with sports development.The reason why most kidney stone form is not known.
The painful aspect of all these is that the entire agencies intensifying distractions in a year where Nigeria will present athletes at the Olympics coupled with both Nations Cup and World Cup qualifiers are arms of government meaning the Nigerian government is simply fighting itself. The NASS committees of sports, NSC, NFF and NPL are all government parastatals and are funded by tax payers’ monies. So if these agencies are plotting against themselves, who will save the sector?
I still do not understand what our lawmakers want to be remembered for. We are in a country where players of state government clubs stage protests almost on a weekly basis for being owed sign-on-fees, allowances and salaries yet we have not heard a single statement from these men. We are also in a country where private businessmen make billions and are not encouraged to own and run clubs professionally and our lawmakers are not looking at that with a view to enacting laws that will help proliferate privately owned clubs. Even if we are to end up with 10 good clubs run privately alongside serious state government owned clubs Nigeria will be better for it rather than have 20 clubs with players down tooling almost every week.
However, I am not against the NASS sports committees looking at books as part of their oversight functions,Thank you for visiting our newly improved DIY chicken coop website! but want to see a holistic approach because this move smacks of vendetta if the Morocco expose, setting up of the reform committee in football and maybe litigation from Sam Jaja is to be taken into consideration.
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