Nigeria’s second national telecommunications carrier, Globacom, has declared its preparation to pull out of Ghana as a result of frustrations and sabotage of every effort it has made to provide nationwide coverage of the country.

MAY 29th 2010 marks eleven years of unbroken democratic method of governance in Nigeria. It is the longest period, since our independence, when Nigeria was able to go without the intervention of the military in its political affairs.

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 .

May 29th 2010 marks eleven years of unbroken democratic method of governance in Nigeria . It is the longest period, since our independence, when Nigeria was able to go without the intervention of the military in its political affairs.

THE nation waits to see who President Goodluck Jonathan will nominate as the new Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

When President Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in as the Acting President, he promised to intensify the war on corruption. On his inauguration as the President of Nigeria after the demise of his predecessor, Alhaji Umaru Yar’ Adua, he reiterated this pledge.

ONE of the complications thrown up by the death of the late president Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua is the debate on the political future of his successor, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, President, Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

THE United Nations Organisation (UN) has a policy of setting aside special days to raise awareness on issues that threaten the wellbeing of people around the world with a view to urging action on prevention and amelioration. One of these issues is the World Hepatitis Day, which falls due every May 19th.

THE nation was placed on another keg of gunpowder by those who do not wish it well when the nomination of Governor Namadi Sambo as the Vice-President of Nigeria automatically occasioned the emergence of his Deputy, Mr. Patrick Yakowa, as the new Governor Kaduna State.

Nigeria is still a country where foreigners, such as Chinese, Indians, Lebanese, people of the Sahara and Sahelian region and even Ghanaians freely come and settle and carry on their economic activities without much regulation. In fact, in some parts of the country, Lebanese and other Arabs are far more welcome and are more at home than Nigerians from other parts of Nigeria.