Former Defence Minister, General Theophilus Danjuma, yesterday, blamed the worsening insecurity in the country to the high rate of unemployment plaguing the nation.

IN these days of insecurity and talks of energy efficiency, , a lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, School of Engineering, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Dr. Adoghe Anthony, has come up with solutions. In this chat with Vanguard Learning in his office, Adoghe speaks on his current works and says they are poised to make life easier for people through research and innovation. Excerpts:

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.

SENIOR secondary students who are good at essay writing could be millionaires as UBA Foundation announces a whopping sum of N2.3m for winners of 2013 National Essay Competition.

THE Nigerian Association of Master Mariners (NAMM) has decried the high number of intakes of cadets at the Maritime Academy of Nigeria (MNA) Oron in Akwa Ibom state, a development they say is against international best practice.

TWO months after the Appeal Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State upheld the ruling of a Cross River State High Court, sacking the Obong of Calabar, who was subsequently re-intalled by the kingmakers, another paramount king in Calabar, the Muri Munene of Efut has been removed by another state high court.

An unprecedented 419 Scrabble players are now in Uyo even as the Akpabio International Classics enters day two.

Ethiopia have confirmed they will host Nigeria in a 2014 World Cup playoff on Sunday, October 13, in Addis Ababa.

LEADER of the Islamic sect Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, who was reported to have been killed by security forces reportedly made an appearance in a new video, yesterday, saying the military should bury itself in shame because he is alive.

NO nation can aspire to achieve her full potentials without human capital development, and human capital development cannot be realised if the institutions charged to do so are crippled by maladministration, weak leadership structure and corruption.

Pearson, in collaboration with the Lagos Eko Secondary Education Project, is supporting the professional development of Lagos State secondary school teachers through hands-on-training and field observations.

THE Sovereign Wealth Fund, SWF, on Monday completed investment allocations for the 20 percent of the $1 billion it is setting aside to guard against commodity price shocks, its chief executive said.

The Lagos State government has selected 10 public schools to test-run the commencement of computer-based examinations in public secondary schools in the state.

Arik Air, West and Central Africa’s largest commercial airline is partnering IBB International Golf and Country, Abuja in staging the 2013 Independence Day golf and Nigeria Vs Ghana International golf match play to mark Nigeria’s 53rd independence anniversary.

It was another gathering of art patrons, dealers, promoters, scholars and others as the first major joint exhibition of paintings by two brothers, Emmanuel and Stanley Dudu was declared open at Alexis Gallery, Victoria Island, Lagos. The exhibition is coming on the heels of the successes recorded by the two multi talented brothers in their different artistic life tagged Meet the Dudus, an exhibition of recent works of art. It featured some of the recent creative works by the two award winning artists.