Children, according to a data of the United Nations, are the most vulnerable to road accidents. It was against this backdrop that the Lagos State Government says it has initiated several programmes to safeguard children, who constitute a significant number of its 18 million population, from avoidable mishaps.

THE Nigerian state has always faced and will continue to face the daunting challenge of making democracy deliver the much avowed dividends that should be the hallmark of democratic practice. Against what the political class would want us believe, which is basically a ploy to hide their inefficiency and greed – it is not that we are still learning the ropes of democratic practice, but the fact is that we have blatantly refused, so it seems – to use well our democratic opportunities.

The Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation on Thursday set up its own Arbitration Panel to adjudicate on issues arising from the elections into the boards of the National, Women and Amateur Leagues.

The World Health Organisation, WHO, has warned that Nigeria risks having new cases of wild polio virus following the discovery of 13 new polio infections in six states of the federation.

Justice Bisola Okunnu of an Ikeja High Court, yesterday, granted bail to the former Managing Director of Bank PHB Plc, Mr. Francis Atuche, in the sum of N150m, with two sureties in like sum.