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.