AS Guinea begins its new democratic era, the US President, Barack Obama has expressed his delight by extending a warm congratulatory message to President Alpha Conde, the new government and the people of Guinea as they witness the inauguration of their first democratically elected President, since becoming an Independent State in 1958.

A major milestone for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics’ project was recorded when local school children and the British Prime Minister David Cameron were accorded the privilege to officially turn on the flagship venue’s flood lights for the first time.

In the previous edition, we discussed the diverse types of China travel visas and the procedures. Here below, as a follow up, are the requirements for obtaining a business visa F.

BARRING last-minutes adjustments, the remains of late elder statesman and frontline nationalist, Chief Anthony Eromosele Enahoro, will be buried on January 29 at his Uromi, Edo State country home.

Is Julian Assange a hero or a villain? That is the question before lovers of freedom of speech and those who believe that government has a responsibility to protect public interest. Give the impact of his Wiki Leaks revelations on global diplomatic practice, international political and economic relations, which cannot be quantified now, there is no doubt that it would be profound, far reaching and contrasting from one country to another and from region to another region.

The unfolding power game in Cote D’ Ivoire has all the trappings of a similar episode in Liberia and Sierra Leone where Nigerians were victims. In this interview, Mr. Frank Igwebeze, a the former Midweek Editor and Foreign News Editor of the defunct National Concord newspapers, narrowly escaped the war in Liberia, shares his experience.

A former AttorneyGeneral and Commissioner for Justice in Ondo State, Mrs. Jumoke Ajasin-Anifowoshe is the last child of the late Chief Michael Adekunle Ajasin, the first elected governor of Ondo State.

Governance is the control of power, policy and resources. Thus, good governance in any country is often judged by the degree of equitable access of all citizens to basic facilities irrespective of age, ethnicity, religion and other prevailing human and environmental parameters.

The recently concluded Abia Economic Summit presented a platform for prominent indigenes of the state to advise the state government on the way forward as the spate of kidnappings and violent crimes are brought to their knees by the Joint Military Task Force in the commercial city of Aba and environs.

When this reporter had an interview with Chief Anthony Eromosele Enahoro, on May 6, 2010, little did I know that it was going to be his last interview with Vanguard. And, my encounter with the chief for over two hours I spent with him at his GRA, Benin City, residence will always remain evergreen in my memory.