The Bible tells us that people perish for lack of knowledge.
And the government of Nigeria at a time worsened the situation by removing history as a subject in our schools curriculum. Tell me, what did they aim to achieve with that decision. Thank God the subject has been reintroduced in our schools curriculum. Our pupils and students need to be taught the correct history of Nigeria.
Why did I bring this up? Of course, our political class, the military politicians, so to speak, made us believe that football is the king of sports in the country and therefore adopted it as number one sports.
Sports, particularly cricket and football were first introduced to Nigeria by the British Colonial administrators in the 19th century.
History tells us that English missionaries and army personnel added impetus to the spread of the games. We are also told that the first recorded football and cricket matches in Nigeria were in 1904.
