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.