The AIT Football Awards has come and gone. The memory is expected to linger till the next Award comes round.

As Chairman of the Award Panel, I did say as part of my vote of thanks that everything will be done to host the 2011 event at the end of this year. I have already read that it is going to be Lagos, while a call has come from Uyo showing interest. That, is for the Marketing Consultant to deal with.

Just when everybody thought that ethno-religious crisis in Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of Bauchi State had become a thing of the past, the sleeping dog in the area was once again roused when persons suspected to be Fulani herds men launched an attack in the early hours of Thursday morning last week. The attackers were said to be on a revenge mission.

FOR some obvious reasons, I decided not to write for sometime now. The main reason is the fact that there have been no positive changes in the country. In one of my previous write-ups, I wondered why Nigeria , regarded as the sixth largest oil producing country in the world, cannot make kerosene available to its citizens, especially the common man.

Appalled that the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu and the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, allowed their personal differences to attract scorn for the entire judicial system in the country, a member of Nigerian Inner Bar and Senior Advocate, Chief Joe-Kyari Gadzama, SAN, weekend, urged the National Judicial Council, NJC, to impose stiff sanction on any of them found guilty of official misconduct, stressing that it was the only way to restore confidence of Nigerians on the sanctity of the judiciary.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s has introduced some security features in the ballot papers to be used for the April 2011 general elections Vanguard can reveal.