MRS Boma Ozobia, is the Vice-President of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association, CLA. The association is scheduled to hold its 17th Conference in Hydrabad, India, next month. In this interview, she spoke on some of the issues likely to dominate the conference, which includes roadmap to credible elections, transformation of law practice and the globalization of legal practice.

PetroChina’s first liquefied natural gas, LNG, cargo of the winter season, at about 70,000 tonnes, arrived in Shanghai from Peru on Tuesday, said a Chinese industry source.

NATIONAL Chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Chief Bisi Akande, has justified the imposition of candidates by party elders saying it was the culture of the party that the leadership knew best.

Lagos State Government, yesterday, disclosed that it recorded 80 percent performance in the fourth quarter of the 2010 budget, a record which was one percent short compared the third quarter performance.

SCORES of politicians, especially those that contested the just concluded primaries on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have shifted the fight for supremacy to Abuja, following discordant tunes trailing the results of the primaries.

The Federal Government yesterday said it has begun the test running of three key National Integrated Power Projects, NIPPs, located in Alaoje, Olorunsogo and Sapele in readiness for the commencement of full operation by June this year.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, yesterday, expressed concern over the ability of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, to compile a credible voters register for the impending general elections, just as it equally expressed displeasure over the lapses so far identified with the operations of the Direct Data Capturing, DDC, machines employed for the ongoing voters registration exercise across the nation.

GOVERNORSHIP candidate of the Congress for Positive Change, CPC, in Bauchi State, Representative Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, yesterday, advised present federal lawmakers who failed to secure return tickets to the National Assembly in next April general elections not to hold their principal officers responsible for their misfortune.

THE Ijaws of Warri Federal Constituency of Delta State, yesterday, protested the absence of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, officials, Direct Data Capture, DDC, machines and other voter registration materials and personnel, five days ater the exercise commenced nation wide, saying that any attempt to disenfranchise them this time around, will be resisted vehemently.

A Federal Court in Lagos has annulled the NFF elections of last year and ordered 19 officials of the federation to appear before it on February 3 for contempt.

AT its resumption yesterday, after three weeks Christmas and New Year break, the Federal Executive Council, FEC, said it was exploring the possibility of using coal to fire electricity plants in the country, as part of it efforts to enhance power supply to Nigerians.

FOR a political party that prides itself as the largest in Africa, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has not provided the exemplary track record of internal democracy and strict adherence to its own rules and regulations, which is at the root of its intractable crisis.

A FEW days to the primary selection process of the PDP, the two main contenders for the presidential slot fought dirty. They danced stark naked in the market place. We do not intend to recapitulate what were said and done, for fear of being caught in the web of that man who was having his bath in the open and in broad daylight, when a naked mad man snatched away his towel.

The Ivorien political crisis has claimed lives of two innocent Nigerians. Many others have been displaced, News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, quoted Nigeria Embassy in Cote d’Ivoire as saying, yesterday.

Renewed sectarian killing resurfaced in Maiduguri, Borno State capital on Tuesday as a Deeper Life Christian Church pastor and three of his neighbours were killed by fundamentalists.