BARRING any other unforseen circumstance a new president that will pilot the affairs of the umbrella body of Christians in the country, the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, for the next three years will emerge on Tuesday, July 6. Feelers reaching Sunday Vanguard indicate that, after months of high wire political manoeuvering by elements wishing to cling on to power at all costs, church leaders weary of the dangers inherent in such acts, have directed the current leadership to bend over backward and constitute a fresh electoral college which will conduct elections to the new executive tomorrow.

Simply put, Professor Omo Omoruyi, is Mr. June 12. He was the Director General, Centre for Democratic Studies, CDS, Abuja at the height of the Ibrahim Babangida transition programme. Omoruyi and some egg heads ploughed everything they had into the last leg of that programme but were as he put it “fooled in the end”. He attempts to properly situate the crisis the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential elections threw up and concludes that the British design of a permanent rulership in the north and a permanent followership in the south was not going to be reversed by a mere electoral process or an election.

Adekunle started saying there were too many Yoruba in the headquarters. Too many Yoruba? Was it an ethnic war? We were not fighting Igbos. We were fighting Biafrans. He did not want to hear Biafrans. All the Igbos were not Biafrans. There were many of them in the Lagos area and in other parts of Nigeria.

The Lagos metropolis was for many years defined by a skyline of chaos engendered in many cases by uncontrolled erection and mounting of billboards and other advertising signs. Indeed outdoor advertisers appeared from every indication to be in a race against time as they stiffly competed for every available space along most streets and roads in the city.

It is deeply saddening that the South East of the country has become a theatre of ravaging brigandage, in terms of crime of kidnap and armed robbery, all violent crimes. Out of these, the crime of kidnap is more ravaging and juicier followed by crime of armed robbery, which mostly thrives on the altar of banking industry.

The world cup has come again as it does every four years. I am a sports fan, particularly of football, tennis and basketball, in that order. Without doubt, the world cup provides opportunities in several directions including the opportunity to observe humanity in close proximity or from television or other media.

After amnesty comes employment, rehabilitation and redress. We challenge government to declare its proposals for employment, feeding, welfare, housing and education of the people granted amnesty.

Two controversies issued from the recent Appeal Court decision which upturned Mrs. Joy Emodi’s election as a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and replaced her with Mr. Alphonsus Igbeke as the duly elected senator for the Anambra North Senatorial District. While we keep these controversies on queue for the moment, let us briefly look at another problem that should concern us but which appears to have been placed in the back burner.

On June 3, this year, a five member panel of the Supreme Court fixed October 10 for definite hearing in two separate appeals challenging the verdict of an Abuja Federal high court which declared Mr Emmanuel Obot as the candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the 2007 poll into the Uyo constituency seat of the National Assembly.

This is a land dispute between two communities in Imo State: The Umuchoke Community of Dikenafai, Ideato South LGA of Imo State and the Umuabor Community of Dikenafai aforesaid. The dispute over a vast area of land of which the land in dispute in this case forms a part started 63 years ago in 1947 at the Northern Isu Native Court in Civil Suit No. 301/47.

Babcock University, Ilishan, Ogun State held its 8th convocation ceremony recently in which 899 graduands were conferred with various degrees out of which 641 were ready to go and 258 summer graduates.

THERE is no doubt that many Nigerians and organisations are concerned over the alarming rate of unemployment especially among army of able-bodied college graduates in the country and several suggestions have been proffered as panacea.

Some interesting revelations on how the University of Benin was administered under the Vice Chancellorship of Prof. Emmanuel Nwanze have emerged from the report of the visitation panel to the institution that was recently submitted to the Federal Ministry of Education.

The Director-General of the International Labour Organisation, ILO , Mr. Juan Somavia, has called on nations of the world to reactivate the real economy and create jobs as a way of emerging from the current global recession.

The academic Staff Union of Universities,ASUU, has flayed the Governing Council of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye in Ogun State, and National Universities Commission, NUC, over the present crisis of mass disengagement of staff rocking the institution.