The Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, codenamed Operation Pulo Shield, at the weekend, smashed an oil theft syndicate using the riverside Otuogori community in Ogbia local government area of Bayelsa State as depot for the transportation of illegally refined petroleum products to other parts of the country.

Adokie Amiesimaka is one man who never calls a spade by any other name than a spade. Many of the impostors running our football and their cohorts feel he should see evil and speak nothing about it. They have called him several names from disgruntled, unpatriotic to a jealous critic who never sees anything good in Nigerian football.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday, said the task of any one who wants to govern the state must be to work for the unity of Edoand not play ethnic politics which, according to him, is being played by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The week has been a very busy one but not in the sense of national re-birth or national development. It was a mélange involving former head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidency, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, also jumped into the fray, while the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Buhari’s political party chose not to be left out.

The late Reggae crooner, Lucky Dube in one of his songs said, “If you don’t have any good thing to say about somebody, just shut up because the thing you say may come back to hurt you”. Dube was right as Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson has found out after his ‘noisy neighbours’, Manchester City denied him of the 2011/2012 Premiership title last Sunday.