CONSIDERING the importance of teachers to students’ academic success, lecturers have been enjoined to build competence in teaching and learning to boost students’ performance. Professor Sola Akinrinade who gave this charge during a training for top executives in tertiary institutions held in Texas, USA said: “Institutions can enhance their capacity for sustainable development by developing their teaching and learning competencies.”

Will the Lagos State Judicial Service Commission, LSJSC, be dissolved when the members’ tenure has not expired? This is the question on the lips of observers. It was learned that the tenure of the current members took effect from February 27 and will end on February 26, 2020 following their re-appointment by former Governor Babatunde Fashola, SAN.

Once the stolen funds are returned to the country there is also the important issue of how to monitor the use of the funds to make sure that they are not re-stolen or diverted, as it is alleged to be the case in the returned Abacha loot. Here Nigeria can learn from the experience of Kazakhstan where civil society groups were asked to supervise the use of illegally obtained funds for the benefit of needy children. This arrangement is permitted under article 57(5) of the UNCAC, which allows states to enter into mutually acceptable arrangements for the disposal of confiscated property.

The inevitable question at this juncture is whether there is any reason why a person tainted with an allegation of crime concerning or arising from corruption, financial crimes and allied offences, must first be incarcerated before being released on bail, often on unfriendly terms? If anyone should cast their minds back to the arrests that followed the recent reforms in the banking sector, it would become doubtful whether any bankeras allowed to go home without a remand soon after arraignment.

I like the saying – ’if an opportunity does not knock, you will need to build a door and knock on the opportunity.’ That means you need to be proactive, decisive and above all an opportunity builder who does not sit all day long waiting for the best to magically come his/her way. Finally, in the remaining months of the year, don’t just want to be the best, learn how to be the best and just do it.

Operators in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry have argued that ending gas flaring in the nation’s hydrocarbon operations should go beyond merely prescribing penalties to instituting measures that will encourage production.

A furniture maker, Oluwaseun Oladapo, 24, was yesterday arraigned before a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja for alleged murder of human rights lawyer, Kunle Fadipe, who was stabbed several times in different parts of his body.

A 17-year-old teenager, identified as Tobi George, is currently being investigated by the police at Alakara Division, Lagos, for allegedly defiling a minor on Ogunfunmi Street, Surulere.

Although Lagos is not under siege by insurgents, but some parts of the state like Idi-Araba, Mile 12, Alaba-rago and Ikorodu have in recent times been experiencing outbreaks of violence leading to loss of lives. The most recent case occurred at Igbe-Alara town, Ikorodu, where some residents claimed that their fellow Nigerians from the North have been breaking the law with impunity with law enforcement agents seemingly reluctant to call them to order.

“From the way Oliseh spoke about Enyeama in our meetings, it tells you that the coach wants him to play a huge role in his team building for the Eagles” a top source disclosed.

To such Nigerians, since President Buhari was sworn into office on Friday, 29 May 2015, his ministerial list should have been submitted to the Senate on 30 May 2015 for confirmation on the 31st. Since they were racing against time, it would have made no difference that at that particular time the nominees would have been confirmed by the Seventh Senate.

The state government had, in a white paper on the report of the visitation panel into the crises in the varsity, handed down various sanctions including outright dismissal of the services of some staff of the institution, which the affected staff have faulted, saying it failed all normal norms and asked the state government to take another look at their sanctions.

GOVERNORS elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday urged President Muhammadu Buhari and the military to, as a matter of urgency, step up their actions in the fight against members of the Boko Haram sect that have continued to engage in massive killings and wanton destruction of property in the north-eastern part of the country.

The Lagos State National and State Houses of Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Ikeja yesterday dismissed an application filed by candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Tony Omotesho Akala-Bakare, who in the last elections (March 28 & 29) contested for the seat of Eti-Osa Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives.

Workers at the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) yesterday continued their protest over what they said was unlawful sack and poor wage by the management of the company.