The introduction of the security services of another nation to Nigeria’s internal problems finally ought to tell us that the Nigerian police, the State Security Service, and the general infrastructure of Nigeria’s National Defence is no longer of consequence.

Let’s not deceive ourselves. The kidnappers of four journalists are known.
They are not ghosts, not spirits as the radio jingle tells us. But they are spirits because every human being’s core is spirit and that is why it beats the imagination that he has lost his sense of his cosmic brief, which is to give more than to take, to serve more than to be served.

“Mummy,” said Victoria, “it was actually nobody’s fault. Paul and Ire were playing with their toys when Ire suddenly got up and flung his toy train set against the wall. It broke into pieces at once, and before I could stop him, he ran to the wall, maybe to try get back the train.

When the general assembly met to ratify the impeachment of Lulu and co, it declined the ratification of the extension of the December date for elections into the NFF board.

I really do not know what is happening. Something is changing and we all must not ignore it. I don’t know if it is something in the air or something in our diet. Either way, some people had better taking a serious look into it or everyone would be done for.

Criminality and insecurity are turning Nigeria into a nightmare. From all indications, we are now moving one step over the edge into the abyss. This is not a statement of despair, it is a conscious acknowledgement of the cold fact. We are past midnight before dawn into the status of a failed state. And it is unclear if any person is actually in charge any more!!

It is now more than three days – at the time of writing – since three Nigerian journalists were kidnapped in Abia State on their way from a meeting in Uyo. Adolphus Okoronkwo, Silva Okeke and Wahab Oba, the Chairman of the Lagos State Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, suddenly found themselves making headlines, in stead of casting them. It would be rather droll in its own way, if it were not so serious.

I am worried that growth of football will be the only victim. Finally, has President Goodluck entered into a plea bargain with the characters who squandered the goodwill of Nigerians? Has he accepted the apology and inadvertently dragged us as usual to several steps backwards?

WHEN Dr Goodluck Jonathan became Acting President, while Yar’Adua was still receiving treatment in Saudi Arabia, he acquired substantial powers and started to take bold decisions that moved the country forward.

Football is a victim. Its tormentors are the victors. The minor disagreements between the impeached Nigeria Football Association, NFA, bosses and those who have firmly grabbed the reins of football are part of the class fight for the sustenance of chaos in our football.

Last week, I wrote on those who are expected to transform Nigeria into a united and prosperous country from the amalgamation of unequal ‘nations‘ divided by ethnic, religious and political interests.

THE British Government angrily yanked the blog from the website of its ambassador to Lebanon, Frances Guy in which she had praised the Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, the famous Lebanese cleric who passed away on July 4.

THERE is a renewed rage of insecurity in the land. You can understand why. The elections are around the corner. It is usually at this time in the political season that abductions, assassinations and sundry breaches of law and order come out of the woodwork like chicken pox rashes.

The Embassy may be deluged by requests from stranded Nigerians and those who have been victimized by recent laws and regulation which may not be their fault. My charge is to look into every case and seek the best way to ameliorate the situation , save the citizen and at the sametime make sure the laws of the host nation are respected.

THE tunes are familiar. Across our beautiful motherland, rascals are beating the drums of hooliganism and gangsterism. The Armed Forces which is adept at this were again asked to pay an exemplary fine for brutality.