OUR Justice System as currently structured is patently unjust and leaves much to be desired. The thought of any change here must begin with a critical examination of the relationship between society, the criminal and the victim. For now, Nigeria is one country where the victim counts for nothing. Elsewhere, people have realised that society has no justification whatsoever to keep taking from the victim without giving back to him.

It was observed during this period that the threat to qualitative university education was so real that its subsequent devastating effect in Nigeria would be irreparable hence the promulgation of Decree No. 19 of 1984 and 16 of 1985 to sanitise the system. The growing increase in the number of prospective candidates for admission into universities and increasing inability of existing public universities to cope with the increase in demand for university placement, necessitated a review of the 1984 ban.

The law provides that if you are not satisfied with an election petition tribunal or any court, you are entitled constitutionally to proceed and appeal against such decision and under our law; once a decision is given in a tribunal and you are not satisfied you can appeal against it at the Court of Appeal. The one we won in Ondo State of cause, there is an appeal already pending before we take that decision. And the one that was ruled against us here in Lagos like I said before, we are putting everything together to know the next line of action to take before the expiration of our time to appeal.

REMEMBER Eucalyptus oil? It is that pure essential oil with a heavenly fragrance that not only has practical and industrial uses, but possesses superb healing properties for a wide range of ailments. Extracted from fresh or partially dried leaves and young twigs, eucalyptus undergo steam distillation. The healing power comes from the oil, which is made from the tree’s oval-shaped leaves.

ON Thursday, August 27, 2015, I joined a long list of Nigerians in Lagos, for the hour-long flight to Douala, Cameroun, a city and country I have not visited in about 21 years. A few days earlier, I had received an invitation from Aliko Dangote to the commissioning ceremony of the $250 million dollar, 1.5 million metric ton cement plant, located at the Base ELF, Douala.

I WAS enthusiastically looking forward to the public unveiling of President Muhammadu Buhari’s declared assets, and I will tell you why. Buhari is one of the most intensely branded political leaders in Nigeria’s history. Since he started running for president in 2003, a consistent mental image of him has been monogrammed in the minds of millions of Nigerians, such that even his foes often accept his portraiture as “Mr Integrity”. In the North, they call him: Mai Gaskiya (Man reputed for telling the truth always).

The legal industry is going through a process of improvement for the better. In the speech of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, at just concluded NBA Conference, he unfolded new criteria for appointing judges. The way is now open for Judges to be appointed from law practice to the Court of Appeal and even the Supreme Court. This is remarkable.

SENATE Unity Forum was formed as a political pressure group made of Senators elected under the platform of All Progressive Congress, APC, for the sole purpose of bargaining for political power and influence peddling in the 8th Senate.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday said it signed an interim Offshore Processing Agreement, OPA, contracts with three of its Joint Venture, JV, companies.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Kogi State has denied the allegation that it was behind the recent protest at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja by some angry youth over the candidature of Prince Abubakar Audu as the APC candidate for the November 21 governorship election.

ABUJA—The Nigerian Army, yesterday, testified before the Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja,maintaining that the governorship election did not hold in some parts of the state on April 11, 2015. An Army officer, Captain Garba Sani, told the Justice Mohammed Ambrosa-led tribunal that violence by political thugs marred the electioneering process, saying that he did not see where election took place in Tai Local Government Area of the state, where he and his team were deployed to maintain peace and order on the governorship election day.

CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria, CBN, fixingtime limits for Resolution of Customers’ Complaints is morally and legally wrong, unlawful, unconstitutional and against the current prevalent mood of the nation in its fight against corruption. In the first place, CBN has no power to make subsidiary legislation on this subject of banks negligently, recklessness or fraudulently over charging its customers in various clever ways including but not limited to:

Yenagoa—Barely twenty-four hours after the two Okpoama chiefs kidnapped last week in the mangrove swamp of Bayelsa East senatorial district regained their freedom, gunmen struck again yesterday in the riverside town of Sagbama and abducted the Special Adviser on Political Matters to the Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Fyneman Wilson.

NATIONAL leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP yesterday announced the postponement of Kogi State governorship primaries by four days, saying the process would be free, fair and transparent.

A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, witness, Andrew Uwanta, has told the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal for Akwa Ibom State that the April 11 governorship election in Etinan Local Government Area of the state was free and fair. Uwanta, a pastor based in Etinan, gave evidence in Abuja, during cross examination by the APC counsel, Mr Solomon Umoh, SAN.