We have discussed Abedi Pele Ayew’s position on coaches’ certification in which he overtly stated that a good coach does not need certificate to practice. Such a statement, coming from a respected and distinguished footballer, is definitely considered a key position which can have far reaching impact on coaches’ education and training, if it is not properly put on the scale. This column has taken the burden of undertaking a critical analysis of this position statement for the goodness of coaches’ professional development and football as a sports activity. This paper attempts a restatement, and synopsis of the main issues.

Following the election of Victor Rumson Baribote as the Chairman of the Nigerian Premier League board, Niger Tornadoes Coach, Justin Tenge has urged him to bring about visible changes to the game.

I had asked myself intuitively what else was there to write about the ethno-religious- bloody-letting on Jos (Plateau) that had not been written before. Or that I have not written about before now!? Is it the virtually ‘do-nothing-say-nothing’ attitude of the clueless, near-complicit Jonathan administration on the Jos massacres, or is it the notorious failure, usually, of our ‘un-intelligent’-or maybe ‘over-intelligent’- ‘Intelligence’ organisations; or better still the subtle, guile-and sometimes barefaced complot- of our compromised kind of journalism practice?

Decamped assistant coach of the Nigeria women’s basketball team, Mfon Udoka has explained that she ran into problems with her head coach, Ayo Bakare, because of poor communication between them.

She told Sports Vanguard in Maputo that Coach Bakare who was with the men’s team in Madagascar for the FIBA Afrique championship, Afrobasket 2011 returned to the women’s team and took certain decisions that tended to undermine her position as his assistant. Udoka spoke with us at the Games Village in Maputo.

Ten years ago, a single cataclysmic event altered the way we viewed the world. On September 11, 2001, the world watched in horror as planes struck the World Trade Centre twin towers in New York . It seems so unreal that anyone in their right mind could not have thought it could happen, least of all, not in America . But it did and it unleashed even more tragedy in the number of lives lost that day in the weeks, months and years that followed . Its resonance felt the world over.

Assistant Coach of Kwara United, Tunde Sanni has said that the cub were in top shape to finish amongst the top five teams in the current Nigerian Premier League season.

Sir Isaac Newton is easily regarded as one of the greatest minds in mathematics/physics. To him is credited the 3 laws of motion; the 1st one, also known as the law of Inertia is attributed to an equally great mind Galileo. Coincidentally Isaac Newton was born the same year Galileo died; a good argument that both men demonstrated the beauty of motion by passing the baton, one to the other in their exemplary existence.

As individuals we live in a social world which makes sense to us, and we rely on our ideas through consensus with those around us. The worldviews we create are existential maps which fulfil their psychological functions by orienting us properly in the world.

Nigeria is ranked 157, in a global index of national child health care survey, which tracked proportion of children who receive regular vaccinations and mothers who have access to life-saving emergency care at birth, among other criteria.

In this concluding part of our interview with the Founder/Presiding Pastor of Exodus Evangelical Ministry, Pastor(Mrs.)Ruth Essien, she explores the real reasons why people should go into marriage, and queries the motive behind the desire of those in same sex relationship, for the right to adopt children. Her words: