Nigerians have almost stopped bemoaning the crises that have bedevilled their football, but what is numbing is the cascading from its Olympian heights in a free for all fashion – on the pitch, on the board, and in rankings by FIFA. It is this free fall that has left most pundits and global admirers dazed on what has become the lots of Nigerian football.

With the passage of Chief Van J. Nwoko, JP, Honourable member, defunct Bendel State House of Assembly (1979- 1983), at the age of 77 years, the tribe of distinguished statesmen and selfless politicians have been diminished.

IN the last three months since Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Oddumegwu-Ojukwu died in London events leading up to his funeral today have shown an effusive outpouring of emotion and love from Nigerians from different parts of the country and belonging to different strata of society.

IS there anybody out there who believes Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s allegations about the plan by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State to rig the scheduled July 14, 2012 governorship election in the state? I doubt.

THE recent arraignment of two men, Silas Ihemeremadu and Stanley Nwaobilo before a Magistrate Court in Umuahia, Abia State on a two-count charge of impersonation and Advance Fee Fraud allegedly using the name of Chinedu Orji, the first son of Abia State governor, to dupe one Charles Esonu of the sum of N1 million is another eye opener and a confirmation of the desperation on the part of some people who want to pull him and his father’s government down for selfish and cheap political reasons.

OVER the months, while eminent citizens the world over have lamented and condemned the series of senseless killings, maiming, displacement of Nigerian citizens and the destruction of their property, occasioned by attacks by members of the Boko Haram sect, Northern leaders of thought kept mute.

This paper makes the case for a National Software and Broadband Policy in support of the recently published draft National ICT Policy of January 2012 by the Ministry of Communications Technology’s Ministerial Committee on ICT Policy Harmonization which includes in its objectives, “To encourage the development of Broadband services that will enable Nigerians enjoy the benefits of globalization and convergence”.

THE need for the transformation of the National Youth Service Corps scheme became glaring following the security challenges that beset the scheme and the death of some corps members on national duty during the April 2011 elections. While some people clamoured for the scheme to be scrapped, others advocated for its reform.

A QUICK recap of how Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, began to act indecorously towards the former Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Tony Anenih, would help to put this piece in the proper context of its title.

WHEN people engage in the argument about importing petrol and subsidy, I refer them to Biafra where the refineries were producing till the end of the war. Biafra never imported fuel because it was totally blockaded.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, German Embassy in Nigeria and one of the leading non-governmental organization devoted to Environmental advocacy, the International Centre for Energy, Environment & Development (ICEED) kick-started a program in Abuja yesterday which may go a long way in reducing the dangers Nigerians could face as the threats of climate change loom on the country.

THE birth of the man, known much later as Ikemba in Zungeru (present day Niger State) was a remarkable event. Even more remarkable was the arrival of Sir Louis Phillip Odumegwu Ojukwu, the then richest man in Nigeria in his Rolls Royce, to take him away to Lagos.

RECENTLY, a group of people who identified themselves as ex-students union leaders bought spaces in the newspapers to admonish Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, Edo State governor, to take the path of honour.

SINCE the constitution of the Federal Executive Council by President Goodluck Jonathan after his 2011 victory at the general election, many government ministries and agencies have attested to the fact that governance have recorded a great departure from the past.

One should be rightly puzzled that I would venture to write about the country’s satellite program at this time of national crisis with Nigeria having to deal with Boko Haram, infiltration of the administration by fundamentalist groups, unprecedented lack of personal security, untold hardships caused by the abrupt withdrawal of fuel subsidy in the background of endemic corruption and the continuing lack of essential development of the country.