Osasu Obayiuwana

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🇬🇧 🇳🇬 ex-@BBC. ⚽️ junkie. Lawyer. @blzzrd, https://t.co/wJcOOPnpuA & @guardian writer. Ex- FIFA Anti-Racism Task Force. Associate Fellow, @official_NIIA.

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This is the road from #Rabat to #Marrakech in #Maroc #Morocco, a 319km journey, similar in distance from Lagos to Benin. But the difference in the quality of the roads is night and day. World-class in Maroc. #Nigeria? Jankara roads. Shame on us! 😐🥲

It’s just before 8am in #Casablanca, #Maroc. This is the weather. And has been the weather, since I came here a week ago. It’s a complete contrast to the lovely weather in July. Please CAF, never stage another #AFCON in North Africa in winter! 🫤

Come on, Mr President… You ‘forgot’ my name and had to ask Luxolo September to remind you who I was, while we were in Cairo, last Sunday, for the CAF Online exco presser? 😆🚶🏽‍➡️🚶🏽‍➡️

But for the decision of Burkinabe referee Vincent Kabore to point to the penalty spot, after a VAR review, the Uganda Cranes would have been eliminated from the #TotaEnergiesCHAN2024. Is it a surprise that they are kissing the VAR machine, in profound gratitude? 😂

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Any journo buying food at the MetLife Stadium, during this FIFA World Cup, should be ready to be taken for a mug. Ed Dove of ESPN Africa just went to get a meal. I’ll leave him to tell you how much he paid for it…

And for those looking for when Motsepe told me to “Keep Quiet”, for having the audacity to ask him what was the “nonsense” he claimed I said, here it is…

Can someone explain to me what happened here, in Rabat, during the #U17AFCON trophy and medal giving ceremony? 🤔

Chinua Achebe, being interviewed, in 1964, by Professor Wole Soyinka and South African Lewis Nkosi. We need to treasure our records…

#AFCON2025FINAL winning coach Pape Thiaw will not speak to the world’s media, after winning the trophy 🏆. He was hounded out of the room by journalists from #Morocco. I have never seen this type of thing at an #AFCON. 🤦🏾‍♂️

Ugly scenes in the press conference room, as journalists from #Morocco boo Pape Thiaw, #Senegal’s #AFCON2025 trophy 🏆 winning coach. This is shameful. Very shameful. This should not happen, no matter what happened on the field. Thiaw walked out. We don’t know what happens now.

How well did Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 interact with Bola Ahmed Tinubu in #SouthAfrica?

I wanted #Nigeria to win, of course. But I know how desperate #Morocco are, to end 50 years of #AFCON hurt. I can’t say I am sad to see them happy. Sportsmanship, in defeat, is fundamental to sport. I hope they win the #AFCON. Good luck, #Maroc!

This is what Eric Chelle, the 🇳🇬 Super Eagles head coach, had to say about the argument between Ademola Lookman &amp; Victor Osimhen, before Victor Osimhen was substituted, during their #AFCON2025 Rof16 game against #Mozambique, which they won 4-0.

I have long known that SAFA.net, under Danny Jordaan, is a mess. But for this to happen at an NEC meeting? For how long is this show of shame in #SouthAfrica’s ⚽️ going to continue? Standard Bank ZA just signed on as a main sponsor, only to see this? 🤦🏾‍♂️

What do I think of the decision of ⁦CAF⁩ to strip #Senegal of the 2025 #AFCON title? I tell the ⁦talkSPORT⁩ gang of Jim White, Simon Jordan and Danny Murphy. Have a listen…

One thing one must give to the North Africans - their passion for club football is unparalleled in the continent. #CAFCCFINAL

I asked 🇳🇬 Super Eagles head coach Eric Chelle if the 2-0 win over #Algeria in the #AFCON2025 quarter-final in Marrakech is his team’s best performance since he took over the team in January 2025. This is what he had to say to me…

.Eleni Giokos Ελένη Γιώκου of CNN asks CAF Online President Patrice Motsepe whether he intends to become President of #SouthAfrica. This is what Motsepe told her…

.Ashleigh Plumptre OON admits, after winning the 🏆, that the #TotalEnergiesWAFCON2024 has “been draining”… She tells me why she thinks she has such a connection with NGSuper_Falcons fans in #Nigeria.

I didn’t know, like Aliko Dangote, the Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi, is a gooner (an Arsenal supporter)…

Is this not Amaju Melvin Pinnick, admitting that he imposed a player on Gernot Rohr, ahead of the 2018 #FIFAWorldCup? He called it using his ‘slot’ as NFF President. And people wonder why I will always be against this man.

Guess the national anthem that was played before Tuesday’s #UnityCup game between #Nigeria and #Zimbabwe? “Arise o compatriots, Nigeria’s call obey…” 🫡 🇳🇬 😊

This is what Eric Chelle, the 🇳🇬 Super Eagles head coach, had to say about the argument between Ademola Lookman & Victor Osimhen, before Victor Osimhen was substituted, during their #AFCON2025 Rof16 game against #Mozambique, which they won 4-0.