With intense awareness and publicity on the consequences of domestic violence and sexual abuse,perhaps the crime can be curtailed to a barest minimum.

Daily decision sets the pace for habit formation or habit retention and determines how you will live and what you will become. Your way of life today creates the tomorrow you are committed to. The difference between excellence and mediocrity; success and failure are rooted in habits. Different habits produce different results and create different destinies. Habits are causes; the consequences of the habit are the effects.

FORMER Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, yesterday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to highlight what funds borrowed and recovered from looters will be used for, in order to give hope to Nigerians suffering as a result of the recession.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State and the Olu of Warri, His Majesty Ogiame Ikenwoli, will be special guest of honour and Royal Father of the Day at the launching of Itsekiri Socio-Cultural Club (also known as Otonloye) N100 million hall in Koko, Warri North Local Government Area of the state.

WORRIED by the deplorable state of Nigeria’s educational institutions at all levels, especially at the early years and primary levels, and the dwindling fortunes of the sector, unarguably the bedrock of any development, Edumark Consult in conjunction with Concerned Parents and Educators Network (CPEN) organised a one day conference tagged The Gathering, aimed at birthing a new generation of education reformers.

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate in the just concluded Edo State governorship election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu will on Friday, formally lead the street protests against the declaration by Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of the All Progressive Party, APC, candidate, Mr. Godwin Obaseki as the winner of the September 28, 2016 election.

In this judicial year, Nigerians are hoping for a judiciary that will deliver better, efficient and quick substantive justice. The masses hope for a judiciary where looters of public funds will have their day in court and get their just reward for damages done to our dear country; a judiciary that will continue to cleanse and sanitise the political and democratic process to a affirm the fact that power belongs to the citizenry.

AT the time the curtain fell on 2016 International Bar Association (IBA) Annual Conference in Washington D.C, on September 23, lawyers who attended were better educated on issues of concern to the profession globally. For the Bar and the Bench, conferences at home and abroad are vistas of fresh ideas, challenges and continued legal education that expands the frontiers of practices.

Elderson Echiejile has played down talks of any pressure on Nigeria ahead of the start of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification in Africa this Sunday.

The Managing Director Designate of Niger Delta Development Com-mission, NDDC, Mr. Nsima Ekere, has condoled with the family of former Inspec-tor-General of Police, Sir Etim Inyang, on his death.