By Dayo Johnson AKURE—GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State yesterday charged Nigerians on the occasion of this year’s Christmas celebration to emulate the humility of Jesus Christ who chose to be born in a manger. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Kolawole Olabisi, Mimiko noted that this year’s celebration calls for sober […]

By Peter Duru MAKURDI — The Benue State Government has ordered the immediate sack of the rector of the state-owned College of Advanced and Professional Studies, CAPS, Makurdi, Mrs. Magdalene Damkor Ikpa, alongside other management staff of the institution. The state government took the decision, Tuesday, at the end of the State Executive Council meeting […]

By Peter Duru MAKURDI — The Nigerian High Commissioner to Canada, Prof Iorwuese Hagher, has urged the Federal Government to, as a matter of priority, declare a state of national emergency in the nation’s education sector to check steep slide that has bedevilled the sector in recent time. Speaking with newsmen in Makurdi, Prof. Hagher […]

By Anayo Okoli SENATOR Joy Emodi representing Anambra North Senatorial district has called on the people of Anambra State, particularly her constituents to be vigilant when voting in the coming governorship election in the state in February, 2010. According to Senator Emodi, 2010 will be a critical time for the people of Anambra State. To […]

By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Chief O C J Okocha, SAN, yesterday warned that the nation might be heading towards a grave constitutional crisis and total collapse if the health problem of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is not properly handled by relevant authourities. President Yar’Adua was flown out of […]

By Umar Yusuf YOLA —  Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State has presented the budget proposal N67,462,945,510.00 to the state House of Assembly for its services for  the 2010 fiscal year. Of  the amount, N26,952200,785.00 would be from the statutory allocation. Nyako, who made the presentation on Wednesday said N20,618,996,955.00 would be derived from capital […]

By Yemie Adeoye LAGOS—The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, has declared the selling of petroleum products at undesignated places (black market) as illegal. DPR’s action, it was learnt, is aimed at stopping the sale of the products at deregulated prices across the country. This also technically applies to filling stations that sell above government approved […]

MERRY Christmas to all Vanguard readers. I pray that you can take a break from any stresses you are enduring and enjoy the holiday season with your families.

Justice Esther Awo Ota [nee Eleje] is the incumbent President of the Gambian Court of Appeal.
She hails from Afikpo North Local Government Area in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. She graduated from the Faculty of Law, Imo State University in 1988 and was called to the prestigious Nigerian Bar in 1989. The worked briefly with two Federal Government parastatals after she was called to the bar till 1993 when she travelled to the Gambia to join her husband who is a medical doctor of international repute.

We wish our numerous readers Merry Christmas.

NO day is as special as Christmas even for non-Christians. It is a time the world seems to come to a stop to acknowledge the birth of Christ Jesus who finally died to redeem the world and reconcile people to God, so long as they are willing to accept the lordship of Jesus.

By Austin Ogwuda Asaba — GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has said he was not at all perturbed to read in the papers that his administration could not justify its huge revenue profile side by side its expenditure. He said that the numerous projects executed and ongoing were there to con-vince doubting Thomases that […]

LAGOS—THE General Overseer of Word Base Assembly, Dr. Humphrey Erumaka, has called on the government to minimise cost of being elected into public office to help checkmate the rate of corruption in the polity. He made this known in a press conference on forthcoming prayer crusade tagged festival of power slated for January 3-17th 2010 […]

By Gbenga Ariyibi Ado Ekiti— In a bid to instill discipline among the school teachers in the state, Ekiti State government has given a sweeping power to the  principals to sack, employ or transfer any erring teacher. Speaking during a meeting  with the principals under the aegis of All Nigerians Conference of Principals of Secondary […]

As Anderson B., noted in the leading case of Blyth v. Birmingham Waterworks Co. (1843 -60) All E.R. Rep. 478, “Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do”.