THE Nigeria Football Association headquarters, more famously known as the Glass House, can attest to the lyrics of Peter Tosh. Blows are being thrown in various directions, even by those who cannot take blows.

Super Eagles Coach, Samson Siasia is expected to return from his vacation in the United States of America next week to begin final preparations for the friendly match against Ghana in August and the crucial African Cup of Nations qualifying fixtures against Madagascar and Guinea in September.

The Draw for the group stage of this year’s Federation Cup competition was made in Abuja on Thursday, with Premier League clubs Enyimba FC (last year’s runners-up), Dolphin and Gombe finding themselves in the same pool.

THE House of Representatives yesterday gave the Nigerian Boundary Commission a two-week ultimatum to submit its report on the resolution of the boundary dispute involving some communities in Edo and Delta states.

Contrary to reports in some newspapers, it has been established that the Inspector-General of Police Mr. Hafiz Ringim has not been recalled home ahead of schedule or on the orders of President Goodluck Jonathan.

36 state governors, under the aegis of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, have written the Chairman of Microsoft, Bill Gates, vowing to step up the fight against polio until the last trace of the disease was eradicated in Nigeria.

A mild drama played out, yesterday, before a Federal High Court, Lagos, at the resumed trial of former Governor of Enugu State, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, his company and 10 others, over financial impropriety, as the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, sought the transfer of the case to a another judge.

THE army’s trial and punishment of Lance Corporal Sunday Ayodeji should be commended for the possibilities it holds for army-civilian relationships. The army said it was not party to its personnel misbehaving in public and challenged the public to alert authorities of further breaches.

Families of 225 slain and injured police officers yesterday benefitted from the Group Personal Accident Insurance Scheme to the tune of N87.4 million.

The Arewa Consultative Forum,ACF, yesterday, said it would soon convene a peace and unity conference for true reconciliation and peace among the people of the North.

ALL the Directors of Personnel Managements in the 33 local government areas of Oyo State have been summoned by the State House of Assembly to explain the whereabouts of 33 transformers allocated to each council by the immediate past administration of Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala.

AT the time of writing, speculation about Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s career plans is rife. Some say that the former Minister of Finance and current Managing Director of the World Bank will soon leave Washington behind and come home to play a key economic management role within President Jonathan’s administration.

Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday, continued with the on-going screening exercise of the 37 commissioner-nominees forwarded to it by Governor Babatunde Fashola, while urging the screened to do their best when appointed.

IN 2003, the political terrain in Nigeria marked the end of an era and the beginning of another. I recall the excitement when some “new hands” came on board as helmsmen in various states of the federation, including my dear state.

Despite initial fears that the Lagos contingent to the 17th National Sports Festival holding in Port Harcourt have pulled out, following the alleged brutalization of some of its athletes by men of the Joint Task Force (JTF), the Media Officer of Team Lagos, Deji Balogun, last night, said that they were not going to quit the Garden City Games.