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Executive Chairman, Lagos State Sports Commission, Oct 2019 - Oct 2023. Mission: Impact through Sports. I❤JESUS. Ef's Husband. Father of 4.

Lagos, Nigeria
Joined September 2010
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A CELEBRATION OF LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE 🎉 Happy Birthday to our Publisher, @CalvinEmeka May the year ahead bring greater achievements, lasting joy and continued success. Wishing you many more fulfilling years ahead. From all of us at ACLSports, have a wonderful birthday🎂
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Happy Birthday to my brother @CalvinEmeka We've come a long way since playing ball in UNILAG, watching matches on radians making so many pilgrimages to National Stadium Surulere to watch Super Eagles! God bless u real good man! 🫂
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From an idea shared with @biolakazeem x @solaiyeps 4yrs ago to a reality we’re proud to see today. What a journey it’s been. From the Nigeria-France Sports Awards to the Africa-Europe Sports Awards, the vision has grown beyond borders, bringing people, cultures, and the sporting world closer together. This year, we were honoured to welcome a special guest, Yeo Pogba, mother of @paulpogba. Not only did she grace the occasion, but she also presented a signed @paulpogba AS Monaco jersey, a piece that will now serve as the first brick in building a sports foundation in Africa. A symbol of something much bigger than an award: 𝕒 𝕝𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕝𝕖𝕘𝕒𝕔𝕪 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕟𝕖𝕩𝕥 𝕘𝕖𝕟𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟. Even more special was seeing the entire continent represented, from Bouchra Karboubi to Cape Verde FA president’s message, with voices and contributions from across Southern, Eastern, Western, and Northern Africa. A true celebration of unity through sports. What started as a conversation has become a movement, and this is only the beginning. Thank you to everyone who believed in the vision, supported the journey, and helped make this year’s edition a reality. The best is yet to come.
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An honour! OJB is a great professional to work with and an even greater person
From an idea shared with @biolakazeem x @solaiyeps 4yrs ago to a reality we’re proud to see today. What a journey it’s been. From the Nigeria-France Sports Awards to the Africa-Europe Sports Awards, the vision has grown beyond borders, bringing people, cultures, and the sporting world closer together. This year, we were honoured to welcome a special guest, Yeo Pogba, mother of @paulpogba. Not only did she grace the occasion, but she also presented a signed @paulpogba AS Monaco jersey, a piece that will now serve as the first brick in building a sports foundation in Africa. A symbol of something much bigger than an award: 𝕒 𝕝𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕝𝕖𝕘𝕒𝕔𝕪 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕟𝕖𝕩𝕥 𝕘𝕖𝕟𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟. Even more special was seeing the entire continent represented, from Bouchra Karboubi to Cape Verde FA president’s message, with voices and contributions from across Southern, Eastern, Western, and Northern Africa. A true celebration of unity through sports. What started as a conversation has become a movement, and this is only the beginning. Thank you to everyone who believed in the vision, supported the journey, and helped make this year’s edition a reality. The best is yet to come.
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Liverpool on a long sleeve in an European night. Game over.
Crazy Liverpool match thrillers.
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Audacious acrobatics 🚲💫
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For all officially registered supporters of Liverpool FC, you stand a chance to win an all expense paid, VIP weekend to watch the home game against Arsenal in November. Click the link below for details on how to enter. liverpoolfc.com/allred/win-v… #YNWA #OLSCNigeria
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Awon temi assnal da? BHA 3ARS 0 ... so far! 😆😆😆😆😆
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上海赛车着火后,救出英国车手的荷兰车手哈托格回到P房后情绪波动,崩溃大哭! 哈托格是个一米九几的大男孩,赛车着火后,他拿着灭火器将车手救了出来,当时现场只有他一个人在救人! 他可能是觉得现场太惨被吓到了,也有可能是因为当时只有他一个人在救人,他觉得太残酷了,所以才会情绪崩溃! 为了救人,他直接放弃了比赛,没有积分,也拿不到名次,但他知道在生命面前,输赢根本不值得一提! 24岁的荷兰车手哈托格值得尊敬!
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Where are the tall girls? We need y'all in basketball not volleyball nor modelling. Save us.🥹
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🚨 For Liverpool to equal Arsenal’s achievements, They need: • 6 FA Cup titles • 2 Community Shield titles 🚨 But For Arsenal to equal Liverpool’s achievements, They need: • 7 Premier League titles • 8 League Cup titles • 6 UEFA Champions League • 4 UEFA Super Cup titles • 3 UEFA Cup/Europa League titles • 1 FIFA Club World Cup title • The title of England's most successful club in Europe  Any disrespect to Liverpool from Arsenal and their fans will not be tolerated anymore... 🤔
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What if I told you there’s a cemetery inside one of Ibadan’s most historic mansions… and there’s a strange story about what happens there after midnight? 👀 Welcome to Part 2 of the Adebisi Mansion story. Would you enter this place at midnight? #teddytheexplorer #ibadan #ancient
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🚨 Danny Murphy Questions Liverpool’s Salah Replacement Plan: 🎙️ “Let’s be honest Liverpool knew Mohamed Salah was leaving, so why are we in August still scrambling around trying to solve the right-wing problem? Barcola is a fantastic player, but he’s a left winger. You can’t lose Salah and then spend months chasing another player for a position you already have covered. “And then you’re asking Rio Ngumoha to play on the right. He’s a brilliant young talent, but let’s not pretend he suddenly becomes Salah because you put him on the other side. Against Newcastle, you could see he was uncomfortable taking defenders on from there. That’s not his natural game, and putting that responsibility on a teenager is poor squad planning. “For me, the recruitment has been shambolic. Richard Hughes had one massive job this summer make sure Salah’s position was properly addressed. Instead, Liverpool are still searching, still negotiating and still improvising. And when you look at Fabinho now heading to Trabzonspor, you start asking another question: how did Liverpool end up needing a proper No.6 while one of their best-ever defensive midfielders is still playing at the highest level? Liverpool can still fix it, but the excuses have to stop. You don’t replace Salah with hope. You replace him with a plan.”
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Check out what Gary Neville has had to say about Liverpool's expensive front two: Alexander Isak and Florian Wirtz: 🗣️ "A big thing for Liverpool is they've got this quarter of a billion front two. Isak and Wirtz. And bloody hell, we’ve been kind to them. We have been kind to those two. They're going to have to start playing soon, or else to be fair, they're going to get quite a lot of criticism. They're going to have to start to delivering. I mean, for a start, they’re too nice. And if you're going to be nice, you better be incredible at football. I don't see the tenacity in Wirtz in particular. In Wirtz, I see a nice player, moving around the pitch, not really looking like he's ever busting a gut to do anything. I want to put a rocket up him."
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Haaland shaved his head. Doesn’t he know he is Samson??
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🚨 Bastian Schweinsteiger speaks out after Jamal Musiala collapses for the second time in three days during Bayern’s match against Heidenheim. 🗣️ “Two collapses in seventy-two hours is no longer a heatwave story or a freak accident. It’s an alarm bell ringing through the entire club, and anybody sitting in that boardroom who tries to spin this as a routine medical hiccup is living in dangerous denial. Saturday against Leipzig was the shot across the bow. Today against Heidenheim? That was the ship taking on water. You don’t put a twenty-three-year-old back on the pitch six minutes into a second half when his body is clearly screaming for help. I don't care if every blood test came back clean on Sunday morning. The human body is not a machine where you just clear the error code, press restart, and send it back out into battle. I’ve sat in those executive chairs. I know the pressure. You have a Supercup around the corner, sponsors watching, fans demanding trophies, and a generational talent who desperately wants to play. But leadership isn’t about saying yes to a player's ambition when his health is hanging by a thread. Leadership is having the courage to lock the dressing room door and say, ‘No. Not today. Not next week.’ Jamal has the world at his feet, but none of that magic matters if he’s leaving the pitch on a stretcher every three days. Football is relentless—it will consume you, use up every drop of your energy, and move on to the next star the moment your body breaks. If Bayern Munich genuinely care about Jamal Musiala’s next ten years, they need to take him off the grass immediately. Put him on a plane to the best specialists in Europe, shut down the noise, and don't let him lace up a boot until he is 100% whole. If we keep pushing him through the red line just to win August fixtures, we won't just lose him for this season—we risk losing the player he was born to become.”
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Some of us saw this rot in Nigeria Football several years ago and warned that it’s get this bad but we were labelled haters and noise makers. A certain NFF president even said I talk as if I hate him but here we are today. When we become serious about reviving Nigeria Football, we all know what to do. The nonsense path into the NFF executive body and its presidency must first be scrapped. Then everybody on that NFF board must hands off Nigeria Football. Only then can we start the conversation about reviving Nigeria Football.
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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is actually quite underrated, given his body of work. He has scored goals everywhere, in different contexts, getting to grips with different styles. Even more impressive is his longevity, highly unusual for someone who profiled as a speedster for at least the first decade of his career. Real testament to his professionalism. Had he not taken care of his body, the bill would certainly have come due by 37. If you want further proof of that (which also doubles as an explanation for his incredible staying power), take a look at his injury record. In 13 seasons, Aubameyang's longest injury absence: 1 month, for a back injury. His second-longest is 22 days, due to illness. He has actually been sick quite a bit, but very few muscular injuries of any significance. Definitely some good fortune there, but he has clearly made his own luck to some extent.
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Watching the Mourinho Netflix doc. There is a missing name that sticks out: Rafa Benitez. Mourinho was so dominant for three seasons at Chelsea…yet Benitez denied him a CL final twice & a FA Cup final once. For a guy that seldom lost semis (or finals) that’s plenty from one guy
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