DR. Olu Olofinlade, is a legal practitioner, who has practiced law for 43 years. He turned 80 years on Tuesday, August 27. In this interview he spoke about his career as a lawyer and politician. Though, according to him, he is no longer going to court, however he talked about several cases he had handled as well as some legal and national issues. Excerpts:

Scientists in California have found that vegetarians are less likely to die from any cause or from cause-specific reasons, except for cancer, compared to those who eat meat.

Nigeria’s D’Tigers on Wednesday in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire failed to advance to the semi-finals stage of the 2013 Afrobasket competition after a 63-64 loss to Senegal in the quarter-finals.

FOLLOWING on the heels of the recent “deportation” saga, another, perhaps more dangerous, storm that could threaten inter-ethnic relations in Lagos is brewing. I call it the babaloja controversy. Babaloja, in Yoruba, literally means “father of the market” just as iyaloja means “mother of the market”.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, announced, yesterday, that it had concluded the first round of admissions into degree-awarding institutions.

As students device various means of promoting examination malpractice, one of the foremost educationists in Nigeria and board member of Thames Valley College, Shagamu, Ogun State, Mr. Tunde Kolade has called for trial and conviction of people who violate the law on examination malpractices.

MOTORISTS plying Asaba-Benin highway were stranded as protesting students blocked the road by the Asaba-end of the bridge, thus causing a gridlock that lasted several hours, Wednesday, morning.

In line with its commitment to positively impact the society through education, Dufil Prima Foods Plc, makers of Indomie Instant Noodles, recently organised a training session for 2,500 teachers drawn from the South-West of Nigeria.

I RETURNED to Abuja on an afternoon flight from Asaba, the Delta State capital, last Sunday. We had been attending the 9th Nigerian Editors’ Conference; an occasion which climaxed with a gala night of music, featuring D’Banj; Omawumi; the Delta State cultural troupe and some of the leading comedians that made Delta the capital of Nigerian stand up comedy.

The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, NFIU, yesterday, threatened to sanction financial institutions in the country, following their non-compliance with certain anti-money laundering provisions.

Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of The Young Shall Grow Motors, Chief Vincent Obianodo, narrowly escaped death, Tuesday night, after he was attacked by gunmen in Festac Town, Lagos.

The Alumni Association of the International School Ibadan, ISI, has decried the erosion reading culture among Nigerians, describing it as one of the general maladies that has crept into the nation’s education sector.

EMPLOYER SPONSORSHIP Any foreign national who possesses specialised and relevant skills, abilities and technical know-how required in Nigeria for the development of its economy may be employed to work in Nigeria for a period of time in order to transfer such skills, abilities and knowledge. Before such skilled foreign national can be employed in Nigeria, the employer must prove that no Nigerian citizen possesses the same skills, abilities and technical know-how; it must also have obtained a work permit for the prospective employee to the skilled migrant to work legally in Nigeria.

Malawi might be unable to prosecute their final Group F 2014 World Cup qualifier against Nigeria on September 7 due to lack of funds.

The Commission submits that the National Assembly should de-emphasis the issue of qualifying years of experience and adopt the model of the CBN Act where no requirement of specific years of post-qualification experience is stipulated by the CBN Act. This is the position that is consistent with global best practice which emphasizes competency rather than years of post-qualification experience, which does not necessarily translate into capacity and capability.