Former Governor of Edo State, Senator Oserheimen Osunbor, Professor of Law and member of the Nigerian Law Reform Commission, recently had a chat with Sunday Vanguard on burning issues in the country among which are the six-year single term proposal, Islamic banking, President Jonathan’s transformation agenda and the Edo PDP imbroglio.
For a man who has been out of public glare since that infamous loss of his gubernatorial seat in 2008 – yes infamous, according to Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, leaders who saw the loss as a function of the fight in the ranks of the leaders.

The last may not have been heard about the feud between former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB, and former President Olusegun Obasanjo, as the former insisted that it is now an eye for an eye with the latter. Babangida said he would no longer sit idly and watch Obasanjo throw darts at him.

NATIONAL President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan, former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon and ex-President Shehu Shagari to immediately intervene to douse the tension between the two feuding past rulers, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Gen. Ibrahim Babangida.

Tributes have continued to pour in for the late Chief of General Staff (CGS), Admiral Augustus Aikhomu, as Governor Adams Oshiomhole described him as a worthy son of Edo State who left indelible imprints in all parts of the state and beyond.

Nigeria is one of the highest donor countries to the Rotary International (RI) polio fund, according to the RI president, Rotarian Kalyan Banerjee.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, will, today (Sunday), start its weeklong annual conference in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Over 10,000 lawyers are expected to grace the event.

The significance of the Night of Majesty or Laylatul-Qadr cannot be overemphasised. Inspite of our knowledge about the glorious night and its importance, preparation towards it has not shown enough awareness and consciousness about its gains. It is one marvellous gift the Creator, Allah (SWT) has given to the Muslim Ummah to redeem and renew themselves every year of all iniquities, attract abundant blessings and of course change their destinies.

Having sufficiently dragged the integrity of the judiciary in the mud, the retiring Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, and the now suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Isa Salami, the judicial system is itself reeling from the collateral damage that is trailing the scandal that is still unfolding. This is a story of the yet to-be appreciated damage that the allegations of Justice Salami against Justice Katsina-Alu and NJC’s suspension of Justice Salami may do to the carriage of justice in the country.

Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia plans for a successful outing in the crucial Nations Cup qualifier in Antananarivo on September 3, 2011 against the Barea of Mozambique may run into a storm as the list of players he drew for preparation towards the match has been rejected by the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF.