ONE of the notorious quirks bedeviling governance in Nigeria is the tendency for what started out as a firm, decisive and desirable government action to unceremoniously fizzle out into blatant back-tracking or abrupt disinterest and lingering inaction, often witnessing a pathetic return to business as usual.

BORN in 1918 at Okobia to the the Gbinije Royal Family of Okobia in Okpe Local Government Area(Paternal) and the Agbarha/Akpeta Family of Evwreyin-Ugolo in Okpe Local Government Area all of Delta State, Nigeria and consistent with the Achebian dictum that “the chick that will grow old will be known the day it is born”, Chief Patrick A. Gbinije started displaying infantile vibrancy and unusual finesse at very early age.

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.