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.