Since the world’s tiniest country – The Vatican – pioneered the celebration of Children’s Day, it soon assumed a worldwide dimension when the first International Children’s Day was held in Turkey on April 23rd 1920 in Turkey . The first Children’s Day organised by the International Union for Child Welfare was held in Geneva in 1955. From the 1970’s, it was adopted as an annual ritual in Nigeria .

By  Peter Duru MAKURDI —  Special Adviser to the Benue State Governor on Public Policy, Mr. Conrad Wergba has debunked allegations that he masterminded an assassination plot against Mr. Morris Tsav, the publisher of a local weekly in Benue State. Wergba maintained that the allegation was a calculated attempt by the local publisher to soil […]

The Action Congress, AC, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to urgently and comprehensively reform the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as part of an expected electoral reform ahead of the 2011 general elections.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos, yesterday laid to rest, the issue of admissibility of computer-generated statements of account as an evidence in criminal trial. It overruled a decision of a Federal High Court, Lagos that same is not admissible because it is not recognised by the Evidence Act.

Delta Air has said recent take over of Virgin Nigeria Airways by the NGroup would not affect the code share agreement between both airlines.

FEDERAL Government, yesterday, announced a new price regime for gas to power, even as it also indicated that the much-awaited and controversial Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, would finally become law by early August.
The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, who made this known to newsmen during a Ministerial briefing on Domestic Gas, said this was part of government’s strategic effort to boost the supply of power nationwide through increased power generation.

By Anayo Okoli Umuahia — GOVERNOR Theodore Orji of Abia State, yesterday, signed into law the 2010 Appropriation Bill of N65.7 billion, and  promised that it will be prudently managed. The budget was increased from N60.5 to N65.7 by the House of Assembly. At the ceremony, Governor Orji warned those charged with the execution of […]

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday said it was doing everything possible to extradite the former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, to Nigeria to face corruption charges.

AN immigrant friend of mine gloomily described it as a “sense of elsewhere”.
Not everyone who resides outside the land of their forefathers has this problem, but quite a few do. What a “sense of elsewhere” boils down to is a nagging, ever-present feeling that there is another often distant place to which you truly belong and should probably make strenuous efforts to connect with.

BARELY 24 four hours after dare-devil armed robbers allegedly killed three police officers along the Benin-Lagos highway, the robbers struck again yesterday, killing two luxury bus drivers.