The Nigeria Football Federation has appealed to kidnappers of Nigerian midfielder Christian Obodo to free the player and save the nation’s football family of anguish.

AFTER the civil war, Nigerians in their droves headed for Lagos in search of the proverbial Golden Fleece. The military government of the time, through it populist programme, hosted the All African Games, World Boys Scout Convention and the Festival of Black Arts and Culture, FESTAC.

Against the backdrop of the hue and cry that reports of past investigations into air crashes are never made public, this report digs deep and discovers that the reason for this can be traced to the embarrassing disparity between the reports of the National Transport Safety Board, NTSB, of America, and those of Nigeria’s ministry of aviation.

As they gazed into space, feelings of numbness and despair were written all over their faces. At one time, they would jump-up and scream in disbelief.

Even by Tuesday, the third day after the crash, the street where the aircraft crashed and its adjoining streets were still aMeccaof sort as hundreds of people visited the site.