The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Dr, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, during his Independence Day broadcast on October 1,2013 informed Nigerians that he had set up a 13-Member Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue under Senator Dr. Femi Okurounmu. The Committee which was inaugurated on 7th October 2013 was mandated to advise Government on the framework of a national dialogue by consulting widely with Nigerians. It was asked to come up with an appropriate name/nomenclature for the proposed national dialogue. The Committee was given seven (7) terms of reference and was asked to submit its report in six (6) weeks.

The reports of destructive incidents, widely viewed as premeditated, at two different High Courts in Rivers State have cast a cloud of uncertainty over the safety of the judiciary and key stakeholders.
On Monday 6th of January, The High Court in Ahoada was to hear the application by factional Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly, Evans Bipi, seeking to vacate an interim order granted by the court presided over by Justice Charles Wali, restraining him ( Bipi) from parading himself as Speaker.

As part of efforts to further deepen the roots of the nation’s democracy and bring justice closer to the less priviledged, Nigeria Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, NIALS, has resolved to test the provisions of Chapter 2 of the 1999 Constitution in law court.

An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, prosecution witness, Ahmed Ghali, yesterday, told a Lagos High Court, sitting in Ikeja, of how he and his team unravelled the alleged fraud committed by Vanguard’s ex-accountant, Abiodun Badmus, and two others.

THE Chairman Senate Committee on MDGs and Senator representing Southern Borno Senatorial District, Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume narrowly escaped death last Saturday when a fighter jet sighted his convoy and mistook it for insurgents operating in the Pulka area of Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State. The senator escaped by the whiskers to tell his story.

Ahead of the Nigerian Bar Association NBA, forthcoming election in July which is expected to produce new national officers that will take over from Chief Oke Wali SAN, led executive, South West Lawyers Forum otherwise called Egbe Amofin Yoruba will on Saturday endorse a presidential candidate to fly the forum’s flag.

Home-based Super Eagles yesterday resurrected their African Nations Championship (CHAN) hopes with a 4-2 defeat of the Black Mambas of Mozambique at the Cape Town Stadium.

The education sector has once again reached a near collapse with the recent strikes embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, and the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union, COEASU. This is barely a month after the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, called off its nearly six-month old strike. Though severe, these strikes come as no surprise to anyone who has closely followed the education sector in recent times.

Serving soldiers who lose their lives in the line of battle during internal security operations like the war against terror or foreign missions are now to enjoy a new insurance scheme for servicemen which would increase the monetary benefits to their families.

President Goodluck Jonathan was yesterday presented with what could be described as a centenary gift, as the World Health Organisation declared Nigeria Guinea worm free.