NO fewer than three explosions hit Maiduguri, Borno State capital, yesterday, and gunfire rang out after suspected members of an Islamist sect attacked police stations.

To commemorate 2011 International Day of the African Child and Children’s Day, First City Monument Bank Plc, FCMB, in partnership with UNICEF is organising a ‘photography to painting’ competition amongst junior secondary school students across selected schools in Lagos State.

MY fellow Northerner, Kawu Moddibo, I chose to address you in this manner because I am a Northerner, from Okene, Kogi State.

Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier General Maharazu Tsiga, has said scrapping the NYSC scheme would throw over 5,000 workforce currently working with the agency into the labour market, while cases of kidnapping and armed robbery will also increased.

As over 225 organizations are expected to participate in IPV6 test flight day holding today globally, stakeholders in the Nigerian IT industry at the first ever Nigeria IPv6 roundtable last week renewed their call for the nation to consider the immense benefits Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) offers by ordering immediate transition from internet protocol version 4 to version 6 so as to face challenges ahead.

HAVING taken oaths of office and allegiance for another four years as the governor of Abia State, what is uppermost in the mind of Chief Theodore Orji now is to assemble visionary men and women , who will help him take Abia to the level it ought to belong. This, no doubt, is not an easy task, but with strong political will he will get the right people to do the right thing to enable him achieve what he has in mind. He is in dire need of good men and women to assist him drive his vision because he has a big date with history which he must meet to remain very relevant in the politics of Abia State and the nation. This, the governor knows as much.

THE Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission,NCPC, has been commended for the effective and efficient way it has managed the Nigeria Christian Pilgrim-age exercise to the Holy Land.

THIRTY years ago, this month, health agencies in the US began monitoring unusual clusters of diseases that would later be identified as the first cases of AIDS.

Senator Onyeka Okoroafor, a Third Republic federal lawmaker from Abia State, is a foundation member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Currently the chairman of the Board of Governors of Federal Polytechnic, Offa, in Kwara State, he became a national figure of note when in the Third Republic, he opted to be jailed by the late General Sani Abacha military regime, rather than join his fellow senators in the defunct National Republican Convention, NRC, to work against the realisation of late Chief MKO Abiola’s presidential mandate.

Professor I. B. Umoh, a Fellow of the Nigeria Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, FNSBMB, is dead, aged 66.

PRODUCTION has resumed at the Delta Steel Company, DSC, Ovwian-Aladja, Delta State, after a four-day interruption, caused by the collapse of the Steel Melting Shop, SMS, a vital production component of the company.

As one of CISCO’s most esteemed partners in West Africa, CWG Ghana the West African regional arm for the Computer Warehouse Group, joined other CISCO senior executives and its customers in Accra to discuss the new trends and solutions coming from the World’s leading technology and Networking Solutions Company.

BETWEEN 6am and 9:30am of Tuesday, October 4, 2005, the atmosphere in Ojuelegba, was its usual boisterous self.

The Nigeria Air Force has re-inducted six Alpha Jet fighter aircraft into its operations, five years after the entire squadron was grounded as a result of lack of funding to carry out periodic depot maintenance, PDM.

Last week, the issue here was about connecting rural communities with ICTs, wherein it was stated that the issue is part of the objectives of the Geneva Plan of Action of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS).