The volume of funds made available or is being budgeted for allowances and entertainment of public office holders is scandalous and unpatriotic. Those who thought about it did not think critically. Those who are bent on having more of it are not thinking at all. But those who sit back and endorse the rape are the sick ones who need the greatest help.

It is also about believing in yourself and taking an opportunity when it offers itself.
Coach Lagerback must plot his match strategy with all that the opponents can throw at us in mind. He also must come up with a different plan per opponent. You die in a competition once your team is predictable. They may be largely the same boys but they must be able to respond differently when faced with changing challenges.

The “victorious” Israelis seized the ships and detained the occupants. When news of the crime first broke, Israel had claimed that its intention in invading the ships with heavily armed soldiers attacking from sea and air, was peaceful but that the activists in the ships had shot at the soldiers and attacked them with weapons, so the Israeli commandos action was in self-defence! But after seizing the ships, Israel was unable to provide a single gun or ammunition to back up its fairy tale.

To me and others of my thinking, theformer President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo would always remain an enigmatic personality – confusing to many Nigerians but more perplexing to himself. He might easily wear the coronet of a split personality with bundle of contradictions.

SOUTH Korean coach Lee rendered one of my most favourite World Cup quotes 20 years ago in Italy after Belgium humbled his team 2-0. The media was bombarding the Korean with questions on what he thought of the game.