Access Bank website has been adjudged overall winner of the 2013 edition of the Web-Jurist ‘Website Effectiveness Award’ conducted by Philips Consulting.

The Advisory Board for the Nigeria Prize for Literature has released the final shortlist of three Poets for the 2013 edition of the prize. The three shortlisted writers, are Tade Ipadeola (The Sahara Testaments), Amu Nnadi (Through the window of a sandcastle) and Promise Ogochukwu (Wild Letters).

‘Since we were retired, no kobo was paid to me. Every time, we would be called to come to Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, to fill one form after another. Sometimes, we sleep at Awolowo Road on the bare floor, for us to be attended to. In spite of that, nothing has come out of it. It was only in 2010 October that I was paid, since then, no payment. My children are in school, I can’t provide for them. Anytime they come back, we all starve and they will cry all day till they go back. There is nobody to help me except God. My husband died since 2003′

The National Universities Commission (NUC), on Tuesday, 10 September, 2013, organised a workshop on the Development of Learning Outcomes for Benchmark Minimum Academic Standards (BMAS) for undergraduate programmes in the NUS. In a welcome address, the Executive Secretary, NUC, Professor Julius Okojie, said that the first Minimum Academic Standards (MAS) for 13 disciplines, were developed in 1989 and served as a reference document for the first accreditation exercise in the system, in 1990. He said that the MAS was reviewed, in 2004, through a process that led to the evolution of the Benchmark Minimum Academic Standards (BMAS).

STAKEHOLDERS at a security summit organised by the Edo State Police Command, in Benin City, yesterday, called on the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Muhammed Abubakar, to deploy more policemen to the state with a view to combating kidnapping and other forms of criminality in the state.

The management of the Oduduwa University, Ipetumodu, Osun State, has hired nine professors into different faculties of the institution.

Retirees of the Obafemi Awolowo University OAU, Ile Ife Osun state under the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, have called on the Federal Government to review the scheme to give succor to those that have served their country faithfully and selflessly.

Mr. Felix Egbamuno is the Chairman of Femro 3, a textile manufacturing company based in Lagos. The company is one of the beneficiaries of the Federal Government’s N100 billion Cotton, Textile and Garment (CTG) Revival Fund being managed by the Bank of Industry (BoI).

The concept of severance still retains the requirement of proving criminal allegations in civil proceedings beyond reasonable doubt because, the ‘severed’ pleadings, with criminal imputations, must still be proved beyond reasonable doubt else the claims founded on them will inevitably fail. Severance seems useful only where there are other pleadings devoid of criminal imputations and which have the suit’s main justiciable claims attached to them.

Dying is a sad reality that has not changed although we humans still struggle to accept the fact that all of us will die- the good, the beautiful and the cerebral. My initial reaction to the news of her death was one of disbelief, I responded to the harbinger of the news impossible and I rejected out rightly that her sojourn on earth has ended. Oh death why should you take our finest? Our Pride, Our nicest, the beautiful and the peaceful? Oh death why? Where is thy sting?

A British police detective, yesterday, told a London court that former Delta State governor, Mr. James Ibori, who is serving a jail term in UK, allegedly used frontmen and companies to acquire a hidden stake in some privatised Nigerian companies.

Three hundred and twenty six former local government councillors who served between 1999 and 2003, yesterday, stormed the secretariat in Awka to open negotiations with the state government for the purpose of settling their unpaid allowances amounting to N1.115 billion.

THE United Progressives Party, UPP, has also joined the race to capture Government House, Awka by unveiling its gubernatorial candidate.

COMMUNAL conflict is brewing between the neighbouring communities of Ugep and Ekori in Yakkur Local Government Area of Cross River State, following the killing of a Yakkur man.

With the exception of Juventus, who were held to an unexpected 1-1 draw in Copenhagen, Europe’s powerhouses got their UEFA Champions League group stage campaigns off to a flying start on Tuesday.