THURSDAY, June17, 2010 would forever remain unforgettable in the memory of residents of Akure, Ondo State capital. Reasons: it was the day a violent movie was enacted right in their very eyes as all the security operatives in the state literally went on holidays. However, it was a field day for a gang of heavily-armed robbers who operated unhindred.

“O boy, read it out loud please,” a number of commuters pleaded with Iyke who said tongue-in-cheek: “You guys should not disturb me. After all you saw the vendor or do you think the papers are for decoration? They are for sale, so go and buy your own,” thereupon he began to read the story aloud to the hearing of all.

Each time people die, a prayer is said for the soul of the deceased to rest in perfect peace. But sadly, for the family of the late Mr John Enofe Omorodion, a retired military officer, the soul of their father is yet to rest in perfect peace as a result of the mysterious disappearance of the corpse from the mortuary it was deposited on January 9, 2010.

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.