Chief Mike Ozekhome is a Constitutional Lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). He is equally a federal government delegate at the on going national conference in Abuja.

In this exclusive phone interview with Vanguard, he explans the hassles raised by the conference last week and submits that the three months timed conference would amount to waste of time if the outcome would not be subjected to referendum or a popular plebiscite. Excerpts:

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said that Africa remains the world’s most food insecure continent, with relatively low levels of agricultural productivity, low rural incomes, and high rates of malnutrition, despite important economic progress and agricultural successes.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has condemned Edo State Government for going ahead with the competency test for primary and secondary school teachers in the state on March 22, 2014, despite the service on them of an injunction of the National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja, restraining the government from conducting the said test, pending the determination of the teachers suit before the court.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has introduced electronic referencing to quicken process of opening bank accounts.

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has fixed April 30 to begin hearing on a suit seeking to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from conducting general elections in 2015, following its inability to pay N17.3billion judgment debt.

Recently, Managing Director of Enterprise Bank, Mr. Ahmed Lawan Kuru had an interactive session with journalists. He said that the bank has been successfully turned around and several local and international investors have shown interest in acquiring the bank which may be sold by October this year. Below are excerpts of the discussions.

Investors in the Nigerian capital market lost N960 billion between January and March this year. The Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, market capitalisation dropped by 7.3 per cent to close at N12.27 trillion last Thursday from N13.23 trillion opening at the beginning of trading on 2nd of January, 2014.

DR. (Mrs) Okonjo Iweala is a world acclaimed personality in the professional fields of economics, banking and finance. She has been listed as one of the 100 most influential persons on earth and had risen to the heights of the World Bank presidency. If not for the intervention of the United States of America, she will be there today as the number one World Bank personnel, as she was perceived as the better candidate for the position, by those who are in position to know, including the influential Economist magazine.

ABUJA — The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has fixed April 30 to begin hearing on a suit seeking to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from conducting general elections in 2015, following its inability to pay N17.3billion judgement debt

Mrs. Bola Agunbiade is the Director of Avail International Consult Limited (AICL Education), an outfit that specializes in international students’ recruitment and career counselling. In this chat with Financial Vanguard, Agunbiade says integrity is very important in the international education counselling business. Excerpts: