This is the beginning of a new year. For many people nothings is really happening. You all know…. Both at the state and National level (in most states) The budget has not been passed. So, very many people are worried. Some are busy because they carried over some business from the year 2009. I think no matter what you are doing, somehow, the Nations economy is affected by the budget.

Daddy also expressed the view that it would be OK if the then President (Obasanjo) replaced him with a non-Rivers person who was a decent human being.

I will continue to count on experience and bring it to bear where and when necessary. We all lamented our failure to qualify for the last World Cup. I remember when we led in our group and appeared to be coasting to Germany 2006. The then Sports Minister Musa Mohammed was at loggerheads with the Nigeria Football Association.

IN the last few weeks, the nation has been thrown into a bit of confusion arising from the absence from the country of the President, Umaru Yar‘Adua. That the President is ill and receiving treatment in Saudi Arabia is no longer news. What is perplexing is the strange and confusing behavior of the ruling party in sorting things out without rancor or litigation.

One of the main problems of Africa is leadership powered by visionless, self-glorifying, egoistic, power-conscious, unprincipled, mostly greedy, corrupt and vain political elites. But for people like Nelson Mandela who shun power and refused a second constitutional term which was his just for the asking, most people could have argued that this is a genetic African trait.