A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, held that it will first hear the preliminary objection by Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, JAMB, challenging a suit over the 2011 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, will soon introduce new criteria for appointments to banks’ board of directors.

The entire Sports Council and offices in the vicinity of the Dan Anyiam Stadium will be shut today during the lying-in-state of late soccer star Uche Okafor who will also be committed to mother earth at his home in Ubomiri, Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, urged a Federal High Court in Abuja to invoke its jurisdiction and sanction four ex-helmsmen of the Nigerian Football Federation, Mr Taiwo Ogunjobi, Sani Lulu, Uchegbulam Amanze and Bolaji Ojo-Oba, insisting that they have hatched a subterranean plot aimed at frustrating their ongoing criminal trial.

MARITIME Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, yesterday, said the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, had failed in its mandate, especially with regards to the training of Dockworkers and others.

THE West African Examinations Council (WAEC) at the 49th meeting of the Nigeria Examinations Committee (NEC) held in Ibadan, considered reports on the conduct of the November/December 2009 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) as well as irregularity or Malpractice cases arising from the examination in Nigeria.

THE National Vice-Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the South West, Alhaji Tajudeen Oladipo, has disowned the Joju Fadairo- led executive of the party in Ogun State over the judgment the latter got on 9th February at an Abeokuta High Court to the effect that it was the authentic leadership of the crisis ridden party in the state.

IN his monumental work, African Philosophy: A Historico-Hermeneutical Investigation of the Conditions of its Possibility (1983), he stated that “by interpreting the symbols of a culture that one can arrive at reflection and philosophy”.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is set to introduce a code of conduct for political parties in the country.

There are several political parties in Kwara State, but only three are known to have strong political structures across the State. They are the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).