Kano Sub Seat Nig 2009 Football Super Cop Honored Again

By Abdulgafar Oladimeji


The head of security committee in the Kano Local Organizing sub seat of the FIFA U-17 World cup Nigeria 2009, has been crowned the Best divisional police officer by the Kano state Command of the Nigeria Police Force.

Shaibu Bello who headed the sub seat security committee was honored by the state police command, emerging as the selected best among over seventy one of his peer at that level in the force to be bestowed the honor as the best.

The super football cop as he is been popularly referred to by football stakeholders in the state, is described a as the man behind the declaration of Kano as the best in terms of security at the last FIFA U 17 world held in Nigeria by the football world governing body(FIFA).

The Niger state born police officer, acknowledged for restoring sanity to Sani Abacha stadium a stadium reknowned for its high record in soccer hooliganism during league matches whenever the darling home team Kano Pillars is pitched against foes in the Nigeria league competition.

A source that craved for anonymity, when commenting on the declaration of the Kano sub seat as the best in terms of security organization at the cadet world cup said” You cant dispute the recognition of kano as the best in the area of security by FIFA, Shaibu was everywhere, anytime his services or intervention were needed he is always there and made sure his men were there to carryout their duties throughout the world cup in Kano on 24 hours basis, he deserves the award”.

Commenting on the applaud on the state of security while the cadet world cup matches lasted in Kano, Shaibu said,” That Kano was named the best in terms of security at the FIFA 2009 U-17 World cup was a feat achieved out of hard work, dedication and commitment on my part other officers working with me and the hierarchy of the force, we worked as team and were dedicated to our duties”.

On how he eliminated the menace of soccer hooliganism that characterize league games involving the state team Kano Pillars couple with his duty as a divisional police officer, he said”My emergence as the Chief security officer to Kano Pillars contributed immensely to my experience, where I had to control a large number of crowd comprising people of diverse backgrounds and being able to sanitize the security situation during matches involving the club exposed me a lot and today that I command a division that houses over 50 banks including the Apex bank CBN, the post office, MTN GLO Zain and NITEL offices, alongside the home of the state commissioner of police and other VIPS successfully without a single case of armed robbery recorded in the division I suspect led to my been crowned the best Divisional Police Officer is a pride but mind you it is a bigger challenge”

2010 Vancover olympics

With only 113 days until the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, the Olympic flame was lit today in Olympia, symbolically marking the beginning of the Torch Relay that will bring the flame to the shores of British Columbia. The flame was lit successfully by a Holy Priestess in front of the Temple of Hera (relive it here), according to the traditional ritual, using the sun’s rays and a parabolic mirror. The priestess entered the Ancient Olympic Stadium with the torch and handed it over to the first runner of the Vancouver 2010 Torch Relay, Vassilis Dimitriadis.

In the presence of the President of the Hellenic Olympic Committee, Mr Spyros Capralos, and the CEO of the Vancouver 2010 Organising Committee (VANOC), John Furlong, IOC President Jacques Rogge said in his speech: “It is always a special moment to be in Olympia, the birthplace of our Movement. The Olympic torch and flame are symbols of the values and ideals which lie at the heart of the Olympic Games. The relay is a message of friendship and respect to millions of people of different nationalities, races and creeds”. He continued, “The longest national Olympic Torch Relay in history will create a spirit of global community and world citizenship. It will inspire new hopes, new dreams, particularly among the younger generation, to take part in the Games. It will invite Canadians and visitors from around the world to gather and celebrate the Games with glowing hearts.”
Symbolic Message of Peace

After a short relay in Greece, the flame will be passed to the Vancouver 2010 Organising Committee (VANOC) on 29 October in Athens, before being flown to Victoria, Canada, where it will arrive on 30 October. It will then travel through all 13 provinces and territories of Canada, involving 189 community celebrations and covering some 45,000 kilometres, before entering BC Place Stadium on 12 February 2010. More than 12,000 torchbearers will bring together tens of thousands of people to witness the event, bringing with it a symbolic message of peace across the country.

Vancouver and Whistler will host the XXI Olympic Winter Games from 12 to 28 February 2010 and the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games from 12 to 21 March 2010. The seven Winter Olympic sports that will be on show in Vancouver are Luge, Skiing, Skating, Ice Hockey, Biathlon, Bobsleigh and Curling.

Todt elected FIA president

Frenchman Jean Todt was elected president of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) on Friday. The ex-Ferrari Formula One team boss, who stood against Finland's former world rally champion Ari Vatanen, succeeds Max Mosley as head of world motorsport's governing body.

"Jean Todt has been elected president of the FIA for a four-year term by the FIA General Assembly at its annual meeting in Paris," an FIA statement said.Officials said Todt had won 135 votes to Vatanen's 49, with 12 abstentions."It's positive, very positive," seven-times Formula One champion Michael Schumacher told waiting reporters after the news was announced.Todt had been backed throughout an increasingly acrimonious campaign by Mosley and had also received support from Schumacher and Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone.Vatanen, a former European parliamentarian, stood on a platform of change and transparent governance to make a clean break from the Mosley era.Mosley, whose private life became very public last year

when it emerged that he had engaged in sado-masochistic sex sessions with prostitutes, had been FIA president since 1993.

Democracy @ Ten- A DECADE OF SPORTS DECADENCE- By abdulgafar oladimeji

Ten consecutive years of civilian administration in Nigeria could be best described as a decade of sports decay, less attention were paid to the maintenance of infrastructures, and neither was new modern sports facilities constructed to enhance sports development in the country.

Our civilian lords had a ten uninterrupted fruitful years in utilizing sports as a conduit pipe through which public funds were been siphoned, they out number active participants, posing as delegates to major international competitions, pouching over ten times what our athletes and coaches are paid in the name of estacode .


The Obasanjo led administration laid the foundation for the ruins in our sports, through his introduction of a PRESIDENTIAL HANDSHAKE POLICY, substituting the norms of governmental rewards for hard won achievements by our sports men, deeming it fit for our athletes been rewarded with a handshake at the Presidential Villa.

His Vice , Atiku Abubakar tasked with the responsibility to over see sporting matters did not conceal his disdain for sports, in exception of situation where huge government contracts would be awarded to political cronies in the name of sports development ventures..

Nigeria made over 162 billion US dollars in the ten years span of it democratic governance (! 999-2009) and can not today boast of World Class sporting facilities and had to be berated by FIFA Vice President Jack Warner during his last inspection tour of facilities for the FIFA U17 World Cup scheduled to be hosted later this year by the 6th largest oil producer and seller in the world.

Nigerian democracy at ten has given birth to failures and hearth breaks to its sports loving populace. Sydney 2000 Olympics was a nightmare, the disaster in not been able to campaign at the last edition of the FIFA World Cup is one disaster that still lingers on in the minds of Nigerians in the last ten years.

Ghana 2008 Nations Cup is not an exception; our Super Eagles got re-baptized as Super Chickens, the Beijing Olympics as usual was snowballed into another jamboree by our leaders, whom would not ensure the release of funds to ensure adequate preparations by our athletes, only to provide thus days to major international competition in pursuit of the fulfillment of their selfish interest, which includes, free air ticket, hotel accommodation and estacode.


Ten years of democratic governance in Nigeria led to the swerving of nationalities by two of its illustrious athletes,Gloria Alozie and Francis Obikwelu, here we are on the verge of losing our bid to host the FIFA U-17 World Cup, likewise the battle to pouch a ticket to the FIFA World Cup 2010 to be held right at our backyard, did I hear you say God forbid, I say amen.

Democracy @ Ten- A DECADE OF SPORTS DECADENCE- By abdulgafar oladimeji

Ten consecutive years of civilian administration in Nigeria could be best described as a decade of sports decay, less attention were paid to the maintenance of infrastructures, and neither was new modern sports facilities constructed to enhance sports development in the country.

Our civilian lords had a ten uninterrupted fruitful years in utilizing sports as a conduit pipe through which public funds were been siphoned, they out number active participants, posing as delegates to major international competitions, pouching over ten times what our athletes and coaches are paid in the name of estacode .


The Obasanjo led administration laid the foundation for the ruins in our sports, through his introduction of a PRESIDENTIAL HANDSHAKE POLICY, substituting the norms of governmental rewards for hard won achievements by our sports men, deeming it fit for our athletes been rewarded with a handshake at the Presidential Villa.

His Vice , Atiku Abubakar tasked with the responsibility to over see sporting matters did not conceal his disdain for sports, in exception of situation where huge government contracts would be awarded to political cronies in the name of sports development ventures..

Nigeria made over 162 billion US dollars in the ten years span of it democratic governance (! 999-2009) and can not today boast of World Class sporting facilities and had to be berated by FIFA Vice President Jack Warner during his last inspection tour of facilities for the FIFA U17 World Cup scheduled to be hosted later this year by the 6th largest oil producer and seller in the world.

Nigerian democracy at ten has given birth to failures and hearth breaks to its sports loving populace. Sydney 2000 Olympics was a nightmare, the disaster in not been able to campaign at the last edition of the FIFA World Cup is one disaster that still lingers on in the minds of Nigerians in the last ten years.

Ghana 2008 Nations Cup is not an exception; our Super Eagles got re-baptized as Super Chickens, the Beijing Olympics as usual was snowballed into another jamboree by our leaders, whom would not ensure the release of funds to ensure adequate preparations by our athletes, only to provide thus days to major international competition in pursuit of the fulfillment of their selfish interest, which includes, free air ticket, hotel accommodation and estacode.


Ten years of democratic governance in Nigeria led to the swerving of nationalities by two of its illustrious athletes,Gloria Alozie and Francis Obikwelu, here we are on the verge of losing our bid to host the FIFA U-17 World Cup, likewise the battle to pouch a ticket to the FIFA World Cup 2010 to be held right at our backyard, did I hear you say God forbid, I say amen.

Pillars Set To Nab Brazilian Striker- Abdulgafar Oladimeji

By Abdulgafar Oladimeji

In a bid to strengthen its attacking row, CAF champions league campaigners Kano Pillars have concluded plans to sign on a Brazilian born striker, whose identity is yet to be unveiled by the management of the side.


Speaking in an interview monitored in Kano, Ibrahim Galadima EX-NFF boss(then NFA) revealed that the technical crew charged with the responsibility of tinkering the 2007/2008 Premier league title holders to success in their ongoing continental onslaught, laid down a request to contract the services of 5 players amongst which two are from across the shores of Nigeria football.

He added that the 3 players been sought after would switch allegiance from local club sides to the Kano side at the end of the ongoing Nigeria Premier league season.

Commenting on reasons that prompted the engagement of a foreign coach to oversee the continental campaign, Galadima said’ we need someone with vast knowledge in the politics of the game, insisting that two coaches could not take charge of over 40 players and deliver the required result, that is why we decided to contract an additional coach who is highly experience”.

The Kano Pillars Continental Committee Chairman attributed the poor display by the Pyramid lads in the 2008/2009 season to poor officiating, stating that though poor officiating is the bane of the teams dismissal performance in the league, cautious approach on the part of the players in view to eschew injury is another factor disclosed Galadima.

Commenting further on the poor runs posed by Pillars this season, the Kano born football administrator who failed to lead Nigeria to a World Cup outing in 2006, before shown the exit route from the Glass House, cited lack of vision on the part of the core management of the team, whom he disclosed should have opted for a makeshift venue in the ancient, contrary to adopting Kaduna as a temporary home ground to the team, which he said has financial and moral implications to the disadvantage of the Kano side.

Man U Fan Kills Four Barca Fans

A Manchester United football fan in south-eastern Nigeria drove a minibus into a crowd of Barcelona supporters, killing four people, police say.

Ten other people were wounded in the incident in Ogbo town, after United lost Wednesday's European Champions League final 2-0 to the Spanish team.

A police spokeswoman told Reuters news agency: "The driver passed the crowd, then made a U-turn and ran into them." He is now in police custody. Both teams have a large fan base in Nigeria.

"The man confessed to doing it on purpose," police spokeswoman Rita Inoma Abbey told the BBC. "He now says he doesn't know why he did it, but it was an intentional act." Football fans across Africa closely follow the European leagues, which recruit some of the continent's best players. Earlier this month, a Kenyan Arsenal fan hanged himself after his team's defeat in Champions League semi-final second leg by Manchester United.