Football finances are on the mind of Gibril Jallow in the Gambia.

As I was listening to the evening sports news on our national television station, I was surprised to hear the Gambia Football Association president, Seddy Kinteh, saying "the FA have no money to sponsor the under 20's national team to go to the Africa Under 20's Championship", to be held in Congo Brazzaville.

So BBC, please ask Mr Kinteh on what he has spent the $400,000 dollars that FIFA give to all the African football associations after the World Cup, along with the $100,000 dollars that CAF recently gave to the Gambia Football Association?!

Thursday 7th December

Commenting on an item in yesterday's programme is Victor Chambers in Nairobi

Your under-18 reporters in Ghana and Malawi were saying they were bored with politics as it's reported in the local and international media.

What they said is very true but they should try coming to Kenya. Politics dominates the Kenyan newspapers and television news.

My goodness! In all the African countries I have lived, I have not seen anything like this. Every day, one keeps hearing or reading about party politics and 'party whatnot' - even when the election is still a year away.

It is too much. Life is about so much more than politics!

Wednesday 6th December

On the day of Joseph Kabila inauguration in Congo, Edward Adarkwa from Accra Ghana has some advice for him

Be a leader whose ambitions are not confined to his own selfish desires.

A leader who is not ashamed or afraid to stand for the truth when it is unpopular, and who can say "no" with emphasis, although all the rest of the world says "yes".

Mr Kabila, be very careful how you use power and remember that leadership is like a mirror; you get out of it what you put in.

Tuesday 5th December

Kamour Ndullu from Sierra Leone has great hopes for Mr. Charles Margai the interim leader of the People's Movement for Democratic Change, PMDC, party in Sierra Leone

Certainly, the problem of Sierra Leone is the massive and endemic corruption perpetrated by the government and high placed officials.

This is what Mr. Charles Margai has identified and wants to put an end to.

This is why the so called government officials are criticizing him.

Criticism or no criticisms the suffering masses see Mr. Charles Margai as the Mandela of Sierra Leone.

Monday 4th December

Dut Gak, in Rumbek, southern Sudan is writing in reaction to an interview broadcast on BBC Network Africa with Rwandan President Paul Kagame.

What really happened to the former Rwandan President's plane? If the plane was shot down, who was behind it?

Please Mr President, there is no smoke without fire.

For the sake of reconciliation and stability for the people of the republic of Rwanda, please President Paul Kagme, please co-operate because these are very sensitives issues.

Friday 1st December

Longji Dambi in Jos, Nigeria wishes the world's attention would not only be turned to Aids once a year.

I am very unhappy about the way African government officials are handling this HIV/Aids pandemic.

Even in the face of increasing infection rates, our officials only pay lip service to the fight against Aids. They put up a lazy, I-don't-care attitude. They lack policies.

During the whole year, our officials forget that something like Aids exists in Africa. It is only on the first of December every year that they suddenly wake from their slumber and remember.

Then top bureaucrats from the Health Ministry address press conferences where speeches upon speeches are made about the way African governments are determined to stop HIV from spreading.

After the speeches, cultural dances will be displayed and food and drinks will be served in generous quantities, and officials will go back to their slumber, giving HIV and Aids a free hand to spread due to lack of awareness and stigmatization in Africa.

Thursday 30th November

Birik Abdille has written in support of the Somali Islamic Courts Union.

The Ethiopian government is out to discredit Somalia's Islamic Court Union which has re-established a sense of peace and tranquility in the war-torn state after 15 years of bloodshed and misrule by self-seeking warlords.

Ethiopia may have their own motives, but their acts can be seen for a number of reasons...

One. Ethiopia has a very bad democratic and human right record. And Two. Ethiopia is seeking reconciliatory steps to appease America and other allies who are natural enemies of Islam under the guise of fighting with terrorists.

My advice to Ethiopia and other myopic partners who are blocking any attempt to peace, is that Somalis are tired of war and are now united behind the Islamic Court Union because they have the will, patriotism, energy and the ability to lead and unite the Somalis as they have proved to the world the short period they reigned.

Somalia's affairs are for Somalis not Ethiopia, America or any other state or person.

Wednesday 29th November

Kwaku Antwi-Boasiako from Ghana is commenting about Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi who was involved yesterday in a diplomatic incident at Nigerian airport

I'm just and sick and tired of Muammar Gaddafi's theatricals.

Can Gaddafi imagine hosting 52 African heads-of-state in Tripoli, each arriving with 200 heavily armed body guards?

Other African leaders and their security agencies must take a cue from the Nigerians and get Gaddafi to wake up from his delusions of grandeur and paranoia.

Imagine him trying to walk to Abuja from the airport. Please!! Enough of his childish tantrums!