The year 2015 was quite an eventful one for the judiciary. Aside the determination of election disputes by different tribunals across the federation, the year under review also witnessed the prosecution of many politically exposed persons over alleged economic sabotage. Remarkably, the year kicked-off on a low-point, as the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed and other Justices of the Supreme Court were on January 5, locked out of their respective offices by protesting members of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN.

LAST Sunday’s brutal killing of the Oyesunle twins, Taiwo and Kehinde and their friend, Adesanya Adegoke in Ketu, Lagos by a drunken policeman, Sergeant Stephen James, was another evidence of our scant regard for life.

PROSPECTS of career opportunities in the hotel and hospitality industry in Nigeria and other African countries have received a tremendous boost with the debut of the African Hospitality Academy in Lagos

OHANAEZE Youth Council has condemned what it called the alleged molestation of Easterners travelling home for Christmas and new year celebrations at Onitsha Head Bridge, Anambra State allegedly by soldiers from the 302 Battalion of the Nigerian army in Onitsha.

Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State, yesterday, called on Akwa Ibom people in the Diaspora to use their international exposure and connections to attract investments and contribute to the industrialisation drive of his administration.

The Rivers State Police Command says it has rescued two kidnap victims from their abductors, after a gun battle with the kidnappers.

DELTA State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has stressed the need for re-evaluation of education in the country.

Speaking in Lagos at the luncheon of Old Boys Association of Ughelli Government College, Lagos branch, the Governor said education should be given priority to uplift its standard.

CHAIRMAN of Phase Three of the Presidential Amnesty Program in Delta State, Mr John Abugor, has commended President Muhammudu Buhari and the Coordinator of the programme, Brigadier-General Paul Boro (retd), for the payment of ex-militants’ outstanding salaries.

The committee of branch Chairmen and Secretaries of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Anambra State, yesterday in Obeledu, Anaocha Local Government Area of the state has urged the state government and the Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, to call off the 10 months strike action, which has paralysed court activities in the state.

Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, yesterday presented the 2016 budget proposal tagged “Budget of Rescue and Hope” put at One Hundred and Fifty Four Billion, Seventy Two Million, Five Hundred and Seventy Thousand, Four Hundred and Forty Two Naira (N154,072,570,442.00) to the State House of Assembly.

ZACCHEUS Onumba Diiaezue Memoria Libraries (ZODML), a non profit organisation dedicated to building libraries so everyone can educate themselves, has donated and commissioned libraries to Christ Church Primary School, Odunfa, Ebute Meta, Salvation Army Primary School, Okobaba, Ebute Meta, Akoka Primary School, Akoka, LMLG School Complex, Fadeyi and Kadara Primary School, Kadara Ebute Meta, Lagos

AFTER the successful completion of examinations for its 317 students currently enrolled in the eLearning programme, the Obafemi Awolowo University Centre for Distance Learning (OAUCDL) has commenced applications for its 2015/2016 Degree programmes in Accounting, Economics and Nursing.

HEAD, Early Childhood Education, Faculty of Education, University of Lagos, Professor Florence Ajike Osanyin, has stated that the 6-3-3-4 system of education failed as a result of lack of political will in planning, data sourcing, provision of facilities, teacher preparation and the infamous take-over of mission schools.

Midfielder Usman Mohammed is set to become the second Nigeria player to opt out of next month’s CHAN in Rwanda ahead of a move to Norwegian club Lillestrom, according to one of his representatives.

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the names of those who returned looted public funds would not be divulged, pending the determination of cases in courts.