Heartland FC Coach, Samson Siasia and his boys spent time working in the gym on Friday morning at Cairo’s Le Meridien Holiopolis, in a last ditch effort by the Nigerian side to confirm fitness level before Sunday’s game against Al Ahly of Egypt.

What policing means is that you have the equipment, you have trained and trainable manpower and you support them with vehicles and all the rest of them and communication.
But these were lacking; so when robbery, for instance is committed, they block roads and they are now entangled.

Events unfolding about the way Nigeria’s football was mismanaged was unfolded on these pages before the kick off of the 2010 World Cup but officials of the Nigeria Football Association, NFA called us names including that this writer is an agent of the Director-General, Chief Patrick Ekeji.

FOLLOWING the abduction of the Chief Medical Director of the Federal Psychiatric Hospital, Uselu Benin City, Dr (Mrs) Olabisi Ihenyen and her husband, Dr Lionel Ihenyen, by suspected kidnappers Thursday evening, doctors in Edo State have have gone on strike in protest over their abduction.

The Nigeria Football Association, NFA is like the nose of a dog, black, and no matter how hard you try to clean it, it will never get white. The NFA house is dirty, full of deceit and fraud and my friend and colleague, Ademola Olajire has been saddled with the daunting task of trying to wipe it clean.