PEOPLE may not fully realize the importance of what the Falconets, our U-20 female football team did in Germany . The loss to the Germans in Sunday’s final does not in any way diminish the achievement of the team that has made the point that Africa has a future in female football one area Nigeria has dominated in the continent without making much impact on the global stage.

THE veil, the Arab cultural wear of burqas and niqabs that has become identified with Islam is being hoisted to be guillotined not just by the French who are historical professionals in the guillotine business, but also by a rare mixture of European, Arab and Islamic countries.

THE issue of zoning: to be or not to be, is now being taken away from the discussion or debate level. The two sides to the dispute: the South-South and the conservative section of the Northern political class, are now sabre-rattling. They are mobilising their instruments of intimidation with a view to coercing the nation to succumb to their respective demands.

Both men claim to be the Visitor to the university, and in that capacity, appointed two different Vice Chancellors for the same institution. While Akala sacked the incumbent VC, Professor Benjamin Adeleke five months before the expiration of his tenure and imposed his own VC, Oyinlola sacked the Governing Board And imposed the Deputy VC, Professor J O Ojediran , in practical terms, as sole administrator.

THE headlines were loud the past week that the North has decided to stick by its resolve that the presidency in 2011 be zoned to it. The question of whether the presidency should be zoned to the North has been both a contentious and polarising issue in the many weeks since Goodluck Jonathan became president following the death of President Umaru Yar’Adua.