Football is a victim. Its tormentors are the victors. The minor disagreements between the impeached Nigeria Football Association, NFA, bosses and those who have firmly grabbed the reins of football are part of the class fight for the sustenance of chaos in our football.

BY hindsight, he was confronted by the caucus of the party and he vehemently denied. But we all know that this denial never stood the test of time as he joined the PDP government led by Dr. Olusegun Agagu.

THE political crisis rocking Abia State deepened yesterday when the state House of Assembly served notice of impeachmenton the Deputy Governor, Comrade Chris Akomas, on account of what it called “allegations of gross misconduct.”

WE are used to the intriguing stories of seized oil vessels disappearing or security agencies conniving with their owners to grant them passage. Few years ago, some generals lost their commission over the issue.

This is not best of times for four ex-helmsmen of the Nigerian Football Federation, Mr Taiwo Ogunjobi, Sani Lulu, Uchegbulam Amanze and Bolaji Ojo-Oba, as they spent over 10 hours Thursday at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, explaining the individual roles they played in an alleged mismanagement of about N1.4billion belonging to the football house.

THE Inspector General of Police, IG, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo, yesterday in Awka made a passionate plea to the people of the South East geo-political zone to rescue him from continued embarrassment and save his job by finding a lasting solution to the problem of kidnapping and increasing crime wave in the zone

IN their renewed efforts to check economic sabotage in the creeks of the Niger Delta, operatives of the Joint Task Force, JTF, code named Operation Restore Hope, have arrested nine barges containing substances suspected to be stolen crude oil together with eight suspected illegal oil bunkerers.

SMARTING in his new found freedom to exercise his authority as a sitting chief executive, Governor Theodore Orji of
Abia State yesterday sent to State House of Assembly names of 10 commissioner nominees which could be described as people he personally selected.

ITSEKIRI National Youths Council, INYC, has said the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs is undermining the Itsekiri in the implementation of Federal Government projects meant for the oil-rich region.

NORTHERN leaders, yesterday, gave President Goodluck Jonathan the green light to contest the 2011 elections saying that he became the President under a joint ticket with late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.