The Bible talks about older women teaching the younger women but I realized that in this age, most of the older women are busy pursuing their own dreams and careers and leaving the younger women at the mercy of house helps, friends who do not know any better and the internet; learning all sorts because no one is really taking the time to teach and mentor them.

“As a father, I can’t stand that for my daughter, I treasure my daughters, and I believe in girl-child education. African should begin to change our attitude and mentality, our thinking of female child. I want to believe, I may be naïve, if we begin to have women leaders at the highest political level, we will overcome some of these problems.”

Nigeria is receiving more positive global attention. Beginning from the immediate past regime, one sector stood out in global reckoning about Nigeria: that is agriculture. In the June 20, 2015 edition of the Economist magazine, an article on Nigeria was titled ‘After Oil’. The article stated amongst other things that falling oil prices have left a deep hole in the government’s finances, but the economy is beginning to diversify.

Customs agents in connivance with officials of the Nigeria Customs Service are circumventing the fast track cargo clearing process at the nation’s sea ports. Vanguard gathered that the issue of flying containers without recourse to paying accruable duties is being perpetrated mainly by some Customs officials at the Customs Investigations Unit CIU and select staff of some terminal operators at the main gate said to be responsible for signing the Terminal Delivery Order TDO for these agents.

Corporal Victor Edet, a policeman attached to Anambra State headquarters of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Awkuzu as at 2009, yesterday, at an Onitsha High Court, displayed the weapons of mass destruction used by a gang of armed robbers/kidnappers who abducted the chairman of GUO Motors Limited, Chief Godwin Ubaka Okeke, on Sunday, August 23, 2009.

A CHIEFTAIN of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Abia State, Chief David Bourdex Onuoha, has called on the management of National Assembly to place lawmakers with cases at tribunals on half pay, pending the resolution of their cases.

SENATE President, Bukola Saraki, yesterday, announced Senator Ali Ndume, representing Borno North Senatorial District on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as the Senate Majority Leader.

THE national identity management scheme has been a subject of controversies since it was first muted in 1976. Ministers have been jailed for allegedly accepting bribes over its implementation, contracts awarded and cancelled, but most importantly, it has never been concluded. The previous attempt over 10 years ago ended with heaps of undistributed cards at local government offices.

Inspector-General of Police’s crack team deployed to Kogi State to checkmate the upsurge in banditry, kidnapping and activities of social miscreants, has arrested 31 suspects few days after its arrival in the state.

A 38-year-old man, Lukman Ayoade, has been arraigned at a Lagos Magistrate’s Court, Ikeja, on a two-count charge of false pretence and unlawful and wilful damage of a Ford car worth N6 million.

Players from 28 countries have confirmed their participation in the 2015 Lagos International Badminton Classics billed for the Sir Mobolaji Johnson Sports Complex, Rowe Park, Lagos, July 15 through 18.

INNOSON Nigeria Ltd as many Nigerians know the company is the first indigenous company to start motor manufacturing, and today has become a source of pride to all Nigerians. Initially, many skeptics thought it was impossible to realise that dream until the company began to roll out different brands of vehicles such as buses, cars, trucks and refuse bin collectors.

THE International Criminal Court (ICC),came as a result of calls and actions spanning over a century ago, with a proposal for a permanent court in response to the crimes of the Franco-Prussian War, which was followed by another call for an internationalised system of justice, to try the Kaiser and German war criminals of World War I, and following World War II, the Allies set up the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals to try Axis war criminals.

It will be recalled that the AMAA 2015 College of Screeners received over 800 entries from over 50 countries of the world within and outside Africa covering feature films, short films, animations and documentaries. AMAA main event which is the award night will hold in South Africa in September and it will be the first time the continental awards will take place outside Nigeria in its 11 years having held 10 previous editions in Nigeria.

Last week, Nyesom Wike,the Governor of Rivers State, ordered the forcible confiscation of official vehicles that had been allocated to Ibim Seminatari, his predecessor Rotimi Amaechi’s Commissioner for Information.