By Okey Ndiribe & Charles Kumolu ALthough many of the gaily dressed  youths seated inside the hall listened to the guest   lecturer Prof Adebayo Williams  with half attention last Friday in Lagos,  the atmosphere  was nonetheless  melancholic as he went down memory lane to recall tense moments that characterised  the struggle for the actualisation […]

CHIEF Femi Lanlehin is a chieftain of the Action Congress party, AC in Oyo State. In this interview with Sunday Vanguard, the legal luminary cum politician speaks on the significance of June 12 among other issues. Excerpts: THERE have been arguments that June 12 and not May 29 should be regarded as democracy day. From […]

CHIEF Sunbo Onitiri is a chieftain of the Peoples democratic Party,PDP, in this interview with Sunday Politics, he lamented that the federal government is yet to make June 12 a national holiday. Onitiri, who was a senatorial candidate of PDP in 2007 elections, declared that Chief M.K.O Abiola is supposed to be honoured by past […]

Bankole said, “I am burdened to ask us as a people that our quest for a credible electoral system would not be brought about by legislation alone, no matter how beautifully crafted our electoral laws are. Our electoral conduct is as vital as the laws, if not more vital.”

The action of the Okiro panel which is seen as a bold move towards ensuring that the panel completes its job on schedule despite many attempts at frustrating it is also aimed at helping the panel unlock certain codes with which huge sums of the money were paid into accounts of either the beneficiaries or cronies acting as fronts for some beneficiaries.

They asked him to honourably resign his appointment after it was evident that President Yar’Adua who hired him was reluctant to invoke his powers under section 147 of the 1999 constitution to redeploy him let alone sack him from his cabinet.

…“I stole it to impress people at concert”, says suspect. By Evelyn Usman The inscription, ‘vehicles are parked at owners risk’ are usually boldly written at every given point, both at the international and local airports and parking spaces.

The Gbaramatu leader also said it was a taboo for the security outfit to burn down the palace of the royal father at Oporoza and sacrilegious also for a church to be burnt down among other buildings in Okerenkoko.

The Vice President who expressed disappointment at the inability of the MDAs to work at the same pace with the national technical working groups declared that the Federal Government was prepared to sanction any MDA that would wants to frustrate ongoing efforts to achieve set objectives, as far the realization of the vision is concerned.

I don’t believe that the memory of June 12 is going down. If people are not celebrating it as they should, it is a reflection of their disenchantment with the way democracy has been practised in this country in the last ten years.

However, he expressed regret that Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo who was the nation’s post- 1999 President was in his words ”a military ruler in civilian clothes”.
June 12 Coalition – a conglomeration of civil society groups in the country which organised another event to mark the day in Lagos also adopted a resolution stating that the presidential system of government currently being practised in Nigeria is unworkable.

They also asked the apex court to determine whether the majority of the Justices of the Court of Appeal were right in allowing the appeal of the Unilorin authorities when it was apparent from the evidence on record that they did not comply with the procedures laid down in section 15[1] of the Unilorin Act Cap 455 Laws of the Federation 1990 before terminating their appointments without any reason and without giving the respondents any fair hearing.

OPPOSITION party in Ogun State, the Action Congress (AC) yesterday reacted to controversy over the resolution of the State House of Assembly on the state’s financial profile, saying that it has been vindicated over its stand that the state had been plunged into debt. Chairman of the Party, Alhaji Tajuden Bello and its gubernatorial candidate in the 2007 polls, Otunba Dipo Dina who spoke differently both agreed that the financial situation of the state was precarious and that more debts should not be added.

Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola of Osun State raised the ante on his fence-mending initiatives yesterday as he, in conjunction with the zonal leader of the PDP, Alhaji Tajudeen Oladipo brokered another peace meeting between former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and former Oyo State governor, Senator Rashidi Ladoja.

A continental summit to equip African businessmen and professionals to grapple with the spiritual challenges of the global economic meltdown is commencing in Abuja next week.