FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo likes to call God’s name with seemingly frightening irreverence. He is calling down curses on himself in a matter Nigerians thought was well known – that Obasanjo personally insisted Umaru Musa Yar’Adua would succeed him as Nigeria’s President.

OCTOGENARIAN and frontline nationalist, Chief Anthony Enahoro, weekend, disclosed that the continued absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua has foisted a power vacuum and constitutional crisis on Nigeria, noting that this situation has justified the great urgency for stakeholders to come together and form an alternative political platform that Nigerians can call their own.

The wife of Green Eagles spokesman, Idah Peterside, expects to meet him in their Johannesburg home immediately after Nigeria’s outing at the ongoing Nation Cup in Angola.

FIFA and CAF Executive member, Dr. Amos Adamu, visited the Nigerian team at the weekend and delivered the message of sports minister Sani Ndanusa to the team.

Recently, an undersea cable landing license granted to MTN Nigeria, promoters of the West African Cable Ssystems WACS, by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, attracted very serious criticisms from telecommunications industry faithfuls.