NATIONAL President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, who recently returned to the country after two weeks spiritual retreat abroad, spoke to journalists at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, on Tuesday, on the state of the nation including the vexed issue of Islamic banking and the insecurity in the nation. The CAN president says members of the House of Representatives disappointed Nigerians on their position on Islamic banking.

Nigeria was Saturday, in Brazil drawn in Group F of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers with Malawi and the winners of the preliminaries between Seychelles and Kenya and Djibouti versus Namibia as opponents.

Aggrieved members of the Goodluck/Sambo Support Groups have been urged to eschew militancy, embrace dialogue and integrate into the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in pursuit and realization of their political objectives.

Prospect of debt default stirred Americans into visibly outrage yesterday amid the legislative calisthenics playing out in the United States Congress. The lawmakers of the Republican and Democratic parties engaged each other in divisive politics at the expense of the economic survival and credibility of their country. With 48 hours to the August 1 deadline on raising the cap on the amount of money the US Treasury can borrow to pay the government’s bills, the leadership of the legislature is deeply divided while the image of the country suffers irreparable damage.

THERE is palpable apprehension at Obi-Anyima community, Abavo clan in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State since May 15 when a leader of the community, the Eleme, Chief Amenaghawon Uti Chinyem, a father of seven children, was shot dead while returning home from a peace-meeting, convened by the Obi of Abavo kingdom.