Ngozi Mammah, ex-national and African swimming queen, has, in Lagos, welcomed government’s announcement of scholarships up to university level to members of Nigeria’s silver wining team, Super Falconets, at the just ended FIFA Women’s U-20 World Cup, saying education is good foundation for life. “Well, award of scholarships to study is very good because education is foundation.

Alhaji Gara Gombe has advised 2008 Bejing Olympics silver winning coach Samson Siasia not to allow people to drag him into taking up the Super Eagles job for now, saying the enabling environment that would make a coach function well does not exist yet due to the crisis in the NFA.

Peter Odili contested in 2007, Donald Duke contested and others. So, why should zoning be creating problems? We should get away from the politics of tribalising important issues and move on. Nigeria has been faltering for a long time and we should depart from politics that make us wobble. It is better for us. I think the issue of who runs this country should be given to the best. Nigeria deserves the best and the best should rule us. There is no issue at all.

Manchester United midfielder Park Ji Sung is one of 13 World Cup players named by new Korea Republic coach Cho Kwang Rae for the August 11 friendly against Nigeria.

The Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, is still reeling from the crisis that drew its intervention, on Wednesday, of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC removed the NSE Director General, Prof. Ndi Okereke-Onyeuke and appointed Emmanuel Ikazoboh to act as D-G.

Since the conclusion of the 2010 FIFA World Cup marked by the fatal failure of the Super Eagles, national discourse on sports has been dominated by football issues. The failure of the Super Eagles also means the failure of the Nigerian Football Federation, the midwife of the team. The intensity of the debate on the future of Nigerian football has reached its zenith. Also, football governance in Nigeria has developed organizational obesity.

Former Eagles captain Segun Odegbami is at the vanguard of former internationals who, on Thursday in Lagos, declared their intention to take over the administration of football in the country.

Maybe one should also briefly touch on the “encounter on the bridge” in Ogun State recently. There we saw a State Governor wantonly refer in derogatory terms to no less than the Speaker of the House of Representatives. He called the “fourth gentleman on the realm” his “Aburo” which in Yoruba means a younger relation, but can be derogatorily applied to connote inferiority or even inconsequentiality.

The Director General and Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Mr. Temisan Omatseye, says developing and transition economies have the ports handling 90 per cent of the world’s trade in the maritime industry.

MINISTER of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Senator Bala Mohammed said yesterday that President Goodluck Jonathan does not interfere in the governance of the nation’ capital city, just as he urged Nigerians to support him in all its ramifications.

Somehow, you just know what level you belong to. It is possible to be in the wrong level though. There is a way you would know what level you belong to. No matter what level you belong or find yourself,, its really always possible to rise to another level. We can therefore say that there are really no permanent levels.

A few weeks ago, writing about professors, I made a side remark about the “Professor” in charge of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE. Prior to that column, the “professor, had for about ten days produced Nigeria’s version of one of the WONDERS OF THE WORLD because for all those days Nigeria ran the first exchange in world history where all shares appreciated in value and none declined. I compared Madam’s action with that of someone trying to stop a dam break with her fingers.

THE present democratic engineering in Nigeria had over the years remained a mirage in Imo State. The reason is that the 27 local government areas of Imo State had largely been administered by appointed, instead of elected personnel for more than five years.

Unsung Heroes: The Foundation for Hope in National EnterpriseIt can sometimes be a struggle to decide on what issue to discuss or review.

The newly appointed interim administrator of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Mr Emmanuel Ikazoboh, has outlined a four-point agenda geared towards the recovery of the Nigerian capital market.