Gover-nor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State identified defective upbringing and personality problems as key factors responsible for the reason political leaders often steal public funds and engage in various acts of corruption in public offices.

AFTER many years of political turbulence the peace that eluded the Anambra State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seems to be at hand.

As part of efforts to improve the standard of education in the state, a member of the Federal House of Representatives, Mr. Samuel Sejoro, representing Bada-gry Constituency in Lagos, has disbursed N7. 595 million as bursary award to 908 students of various tertiary institutions residents in Badagry.

Allegations of corruption against FIFA are not new. One of the major ones was against Sepp Blatter in 1998 during his campaign for the FIFA presidency. He was, along with his godfather, the departing FIFA President Joao Havelange, accused of bribing delegates to the FIFA Congress to vote for Blatter who wriggled out of the morass with claims that the money was federations to develop the game.

IN his own analysis of why Nigeria has been crawling annoyingly while it should be running fast after Independence, President Jonathan saw the failure of leadership as the greatest obstacle to the desired growth – political and economic.