Nigeria: Break This Odious Pattern

11 December 2008
opinion

THE U-17 FIFA World Tournament's scandal can be swept under the carpet, but up to a point. It is widely believed that its backwash swept away the mighty former Director-General of Sports, Amos Adamu, from his seat. But would that be enough?

To have casually quoted such an outlandish figure running into multiple of billions of naira, cannot be accepted as a mistake, or the result of careless computation, especially from those who are accounted to be accredited experts.

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