NIGERIA SPORT JOURNALISTS, PLEASE STEP UP YOUR GAME

 

I have read a whole lot from Sport Journalist about the problem in Nigeria football. 

Sadly only few come up with solutions, and sometimes these solutions are either not reasonable or too bogus to implement.

All what we read are problems, slanderous accusations, and what a view.

We often hear/read of how corrupt the football body, the club management are, but none of these journalists (in recent times) have taken the bull-by-the-horn, to investigate and bring out a prosecutorial-hard-evidences.

Personally I'm expecting investigative journalist to step things up. 

There are a whole lot of corruption issues, from Match officials to Club managers and what a view. Journalist can step into this. ICPC is ready for petition with hard facts. And sadly instead of Journalist engaged in their core cardinal objective, they are just there to amplify the already known problems.

Another sad thing is that the polarization of sporting media in the country is even affecting/discouraging the little bold ones who could've tried this.

The truth is we can all blame the football administrators, club managers, and even accuse them of corruption but without concrete evidence.

The football body or clubs can present an audited report of their operations, but how many Journalists can foot the bill of forensic or independent auditing just to unravel the "truth"?

Personally I'm not holding brief for anyone. But I know everyone is part of this problem, maybe except those of us that just follow football, because we often rely on what journalists feed us.

I can speak this way because I've listen to both decide, passion for a developed football had drove me to do some researches in the past, and I have even done some football marketing and I can tell you, with Nigeria private sector, perception is key. 

They often don't care whether you have that crowd coming to see your national team or club play!. If they hear anything, whether negative/rumors or what-a-view, they become jittery.

The "koko" of my post is, we need investigate-journalism in our football, do covert-operations, get your facts, your medium, or even social media to spread the evidences, petitioned EFCC, ICPC, you can even go as far as packaging.

 A documentary to Al Jazeera and CNN, they will love that kind of news. To be candid, enough of these problem-amplified news, it doesn't sell.