Barcelona boss Luis Enrique wants to see an end to long-term contracts for managers, believing they should be hired on six-month deals. Enrique, who has also managed Roma and Celta Vigo, has won five trophies since taking over at the Nou Camp in 2014. “I would make it so there is never a contract of more than six months,” said the Spaniard, 45. “If I’m not happy and I’m not helping, it makes no sense for me to be a coach. The shorter the better.” Enrique was appointed on a two-year contract and extended that agreement for a further season last June, keeping him at the club until at least 2017.

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Our friends living in Port Harcourt have constantly drawn our attention to the ongoing political killings in Rivers State of Nigeria. According to them, some people have been beheaded while some were set ablaze alive. Cruelty of the highest order one would say! The state government has dismissed the killings as cult related albeit it has not come out to state what steps it is taking to curb the crisis. The federal government has deployed the military to some volatile areas to help check these killings and save the populace. The All Progressive Congress (APC) has commended this move but the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has spoken emphatically against the presence of the military terming it political.

Indeed the re-run elections for federal and state legislators coming up in Rivers state on the 19th of March has heated up the policy as expected. The major political parties, the APC (led by the immediate past governor and current Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi) and the PDP (led by former Nigeria’s Minister of State for Education and incumbent state governor, Chief Nyesom Wike) have been at each other trading all manner of accusations which are normal in election situations in the country.

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