Nigeria’s fairy tale run at the ICC Pepsi World Cricket League Division 7 going on in Botswana was punctuated by Kuwait yesterday. The Nigerian team lost by 9 wickets to Kuwait.

Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, governorship candidate in Abia State in the just concluded general elections, Prince Paul Ikonne, has called on the Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Azubike Ihejirika, who is an indigene of the state, to resign over what he called the ‘dirty role’ soldiers allegedly played during the elections.

Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the United Kingdom’s Borough of Southwark, aimed at boosting economic, social and political relationships between the two countries.

It was such a happy moment of seeing how the arts get treated in climes where they are appreciated; or perhaps the standard that must be upheld wherever transplanted. It gave such a huge feeling to see what is so very often cheapened here accorded such a huge respect; but you know, only because it came from outside. But it gave a most inspiring possibility of what can be , and also of how it can be when accorded its dues.

HISTORY is not in a hurry to forget Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965), one American who was a most eloquent and witty candidate of the Democratic Party, but who remained unsuccessful in his bids for the number one position in the land. In 1952, Stevenson got drafted into the presidential race by the Democratic Convention in Chicago.