Education
Auburn University.
governor politician Football player
Auburn University.
He was once the chairman of Nigeria Football Association - Nigeria"s top football governing body and still regarded as its most successful Chair. He was also the minister for Sports when the Nigerian Golden Eaglets took home the Fédération internationale de football association under 17 world championship cup. He was one of the proponents of privatizing the game in Nigeria and removing control from state governments.
Apart from this, he championed the War Against Indiscipline (WAI) programme of the Buhari regime between January 1983 and August 1985.
He was a committed Christian of the Methodist faith and earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Lagos in addition to degrees from Punjab University, India and Auburn University in the United States. He died in London after a brief illness.