The Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State is still trying to overcome a crisis provoked by the sack of some workers in the process of implementing government’s White Papers on the Visitation Panel set up by the governor, Gbenga Daniel to review the activities of the institution. In this interview, the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council, Otunba Alex Onabanjo, speaks on the repositioning of the university.

Chief Ayo Adebanjo is an Afenifere leader and remains one of the most consistent leaders in Yoruba land. You may not agree with his views but he is consistent. As Nigeria marks the 17th anniversary of the June 12, 1993 Presidential elections, Adebanjo makes some revelations. He told Sunday Vanguard that on the day of the annulment, he, Adebanjo, “could not believe that such an election had been annulled”. “When I met Duro Onabule the following day or was it on that day of the annulment, I asked him if it is true that the election had been annulled and he also said it can not be true that the election had been annulled”, he told Sunday Vanguard..
Adebanjo insists that Nigerians have not learnt anything from the experiences of the June 12 presidential elections.

The clandestine atrocity came to the open following changes in the girl’s physical appearance. First, was her unusual weight and enlarged breasts. It was initially mistaken as part of growth until some experienced mothers around the area started insinuating the obvious. Teachers in her school also took closer look at her and one of the curious ones, reportedly invited her for discussion where she confessed to have only slept with her father.

One of the projects set aside for my tenure is the gift of sight. My executives and I have decided to conduct a free eye screening exercise and then provide free glasses to those who will need them. We will also do a campaign on breast and cervical cancer awareness because it has been discovered that early diagnosis is the sole remedy to breast cancer.

In a scary event which paralyzed the ancient city, all the Chief priest in the Kingdom, market women both old and young, traditional worshippers, herbalists, invoked the wrath of the gods as instructed by the Oba after which they went round all the exit roads to the city to lay curses. Saturday Vanguard gathered such an event has not been done in the city for over 40 years.

Asked how many times he indulged in such horrible act, he could not mention the number of times. Also asked how he succeeded in carrying it out considering the fact that he lives in a public compound otherwise known as face-me-I -face you, he revealed, “ I usually do it on Sundays but not every Sunday . I am a mechanic and I have my workshop at Agboju.

Katya Samuel Anyagafu was born twelve years ago in Lagos. She has a great interest in the Arts and models on part time basis. She also likes reading and listening to music. The flute Dancer is her first novel.

Mr Ibrahim Mark is the General Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA. In this interview, he spoke on many national issues, including zoning adopted by some political parties, which has been described by some people as unconstitutional. According to him, “zoning is done to give everybody a sense of belonging. When it is understood in this wise, the heated debate will not arise or will abate.”On the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, chair, Mark said that the appointor of the INEC chair will not determine the effectiveness of the appointee, but other issues, such as the quality of the person appointed, the laws guiding his actions and how the commission is funded. He, however, counseled the new INEC boss to be guided by good conscience in line with the dictates of his office, extant law and to be just and do justice to all manner of people, the candidates, the electorate and the country.

THE Bini monarch, Oba Erediauwa, yesterday, rained curses on kidnappers, armed robbers and people involved in other violent crime in the state, with his chiefs, led by the Iyase (Prime Minister) of Benin Kingdom, Chief Sam Igbe, the Isekhure of Benin Kingdom (Chief Priest of the Kingdom), Chief Nosakhare Isekhure, going round the streets of Benin, proclaiming and laying curses on evil doers in the society.

Life will never be the same for the wife and four children of Aliyu Basarka, a resident of Basarka village in Darazo local government of Bauchi State. This is because the man, aged 30, recently gave up the ghost after he was allegedly brutalized by men of the Nigeria Police Force.

Warning: Story contains a gory photo and it is not for everyone. If you’re under age or have a weak stomach we suggest you don’t look at it.

Are you a regular consumer of unknown herbal mixture otherwise known as agbo? Then you have to be very careful because you could unknowingly be taking concoction of human parts. This warning followed the arrest of a 30-year-old man last Monday, with a human head and other human parts, who confessed to be taking the substance to a herbal medicine seller, whom he claimed in turn, use such for concoction.

Last week, we noted that “there is an ongoing debate as to whether the President is ‘zonally’ qualified to contest
elections in 2011. On account of the feeling in some quarters that the presidency had been zoned to the North for eight years reckoned from 2007, the office of president they argue, would have no vacancy for a non northerner until 2015.

While most unions in the country are lamenting over dwindling income occasioned by declining membership, National Union of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Employees, NUFBTE, is busy diversifying and expanding its income base. Like Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, and immediate past President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, would say, nobody achieves success through lamentation, but by confronting the object of lamentation head on.

NATIONAL Union of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Employees, NUFBTE, has commended four state governors, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, and Dr. Olusegun Mimko of Ondo state, for delivering the dividends of democracy to the people.

The event, which was organised by the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council was attended by the Minister of Education, Prof. (Mrs) Ruqayyatu Rufa’i (OON), the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Prof. Oladapo Afolabi, the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Arabic Language Village, Prof. Tijanni Miskail and his counterpart at the Nigeria French Language Village, Prof. S.O. Aje.