UPCOURT
WELCOME TO HISTORY
Unprecedented. That is the definition of history. History was made when Barrack Obama was nominated the candidate for the Democratic Party in the United States presidential election of 2008. He became the first, and still is the only black man, to be so nominated by a major political party in that country. History was made when he was elected president of the United States. He became the first, and is, the only black man to ever occupy the White House. History was made when he was sworn in as president. The event set a record attendance for events held in Washington. More than one million people thronged the National Hall, venue of the inauguration, to watch Obama take the oath. That number was unprecedented. Another 37.8 million Americans watched the event from their homes in the US while billions more people watched from across the globe. Again, unprecedented. Again, history. And as Obama stepped up to the podium to say the words, “I, Barrack Obama ... “, misty eyed blacks and whites alike, Latinas and Hispanics held hands, hugged one another and cried as they witnessed the history unfolding right before them. There was dancing on the streets of Kenya where Obama’s father was born and in far away Lagos where Nigerians, in search of hope, have adopted the American president as their own. There was Rumba in the streets of Jamaica and Samba in far away Brazil. In Washington, New York, Chicago and all over the US, whites and blacks waltzed and moonwalked into the night in celebration of this history made in our life time.     
People just love history. They love it when records are made, they love it when records are broken. Whether they are direct participants or witnesses to the event or circumstances of history, they just love history.
You will love what is in your hands. It is a piece of history. It is the first Nigerian monthly general interest magazine in A-5 format. Handy. Easy to carry. A pocket-size compendium of news, information and entertainment. These are some of the superlatives that have been used to describe News Digest International, the piece of history in your hands. You can fit it in your pocket, in your wallet or in your purse quite easily. So we offer you news and entertainment only a pocket or at worse, a purse or a wallet away. Every month.  But this month, we offer you the Maiden Edition. We offer you history.

Though fashioned after the Reader’s Digest, News Digest International (NDI) is proudly and uniquely Nigerian. It is put together by some of Nigeria’s finest writers and media managers. It is our own to digest, ours and Africa’s. Every month, we shall come to you from the streets of Lagos, Oweri, Port Harcourt, Enugu, kano, Kaduna, Abuja, Maiduguri, Jos, Makurdi, Benin, Warri, Asaba, Ibadan, Akure, Abeokuta and other major cities of Nigeria. We shall come to you from the creeks of the Niger Delta, the deserts of the North and the highlands of the Middle Belt. We shall come to you from the forests and the villages of Ndigbo and Afenifere. We shall report the news, tell great stories, write fantastic features, and titillate you with jokes, puzzles and riddles. We shall have lots of bits and pieces that are sure to keep you informed and entertained. We shall educate. Every month. This is our promise. The promise of News Digest International. Every month.

Introducing News Digest

We are pleased to introduce to you, a winning concept in general interset , family friendly reporting with bias for sound research – NEWS DIGEST INTERNATIONAL.

Published by Free Media Communications Network, NEWS DIGEST INTERNATIONAL is a result of painstaking years of hard work and skill from two illustrious sons of journalism – Declan Okpalaeke and Sunday Dare. Their experiences prevail in this luminous work.

Making its debut in August 2009, NEWS DIGEST INTERNATIONAL, a compendium of information - news, living, and style is delivered with profundity. We are treading fertile grounds with original content, rich in general interest stories and patterned for Africans, both at home and in Diaspora. Along with the publishers are a team of creative writers, journalists and columnists with vast experience in various fields.
We aim to inform, educate and enlighten our readers with an assortment of sort.
NEWS DIGEST INTERNATIONAL will be distributed in Nigeria and other English-speaking West African countries, South Africa, The United Kingdom and the United States.
It comes as a pocket-sized all-glossy, all-coloured magazine produced to enhance your living.
We create superior content; offering internationally accepted quality, exciting blurbs, brilliant pictures, eye-catching layout, chic graphics, rich content, interesting tit-bits on living and many more!

This is an inheritance of excellence and value!