The Editor-in-Chief, Lead Times Africa Magazine, Dr. Samuel Ogar, has called for the introduction of Good Governance as a course in the university system.

The probe panel set by Federal Government to investigate the alleged breach of the public Procurement Act has submitted its report.

2016 is here! As the old year hurtled into memory, we can look forward to the portents for the New Year. Every country plans against the backdrop of expectations built within the context of the old year. We had exited last year with the excitement following the 2015 elections and change of government, tempered by the hard reality of a serious economic crisis. Household budgets have taken a severe knock as Nigerians go through a very difficult time; but we averted the danger that would have descended, if President Goodluck Jonathan’s PDP administration had achieved re-election. Nigeria pulled itself from the edge of a precipice, by voting for change, but for change to be more than just a slogan, there is a lot of work on hand for all of us. Nigeria must abandon the old ways and consciously make a different set of choices. But this is where the problem lies. The more things change, the more they have remained same in our country

An information technology firm, SoftCom Solutions Limited, has introduced a mobile learning app for students of the newly-established university, Mountain Top University.

MANAGING Director, International Monetary Fund, IMF, Christine Lagarde has asked Nigeria and Nigerians to brace up for harder times, following the massive fall in the price of oil globally, just as she said that the country since inception recorded the slowest pace of growth in the year 2015.

Yenagoa—Ahead of Saturday’s supplementary election in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, the state police command, yesterday, confirmed the arrest of five suspected political thugs allegedly planning to launch attack on an undisclosed location.

Benin Leaders of Thought, an umbrella body of elders and political leaders in Benin Kingdom, yesterday, warned the leadership of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state against imposing any governorship candidate as Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s successor.

MR. Eseme Eyiboh is remembered as the Dean of the Initiatives, the discussion platform through which a number of vibrant members of the Sixth House of Representatives sought to project the House. Even more, Eyiboh served as the spokesman of the House having been elected to represent Eket/Onna/Esit Eket/Ibeno Federal constituency of Akwa Ibom State.

BEFORE 2003, there was progression in the incidence of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. Records show that from 1991 – 1999 the HIV prevalence increased from 1.8 percent to 5.4 percent. It dropped to 4.1 percent in 2011 and further dropped to 3.8 percent in 2013.

Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Barr. Solomon Dalung has called on security agencies in the country to ensure adequate surveillance of the entire country at all times.

PEOPLE FEEL that the police in America and Europe are more active than our policemen and women here, but that is not true. We have more active policemen here than anywhere in the world. “The Police do more manual jobs here than in those countries, where they do more of electronic jobs which are more easy. The police in the United States are different because once you call them, they have all the electronic gadgets to stay in a place to do their jobs.

AWKA AFTER four months of bickering and name -calling, the strike action by the judiciary workers in Anambra State has finally been called off, thanks to an agreement reached on December 31, 2015 between the workers and the state government. With the development, courts in the state, which had remained under lock for the past four months reopened on Monday.

ENUGU THE people of Awgu and Aninri Local Government Areas in Enugu State have unveiled the sculpture of Deputy Senate President, DSP, Ike Ekwremadu mounted at the road junction within the community leading to Akaeze, Uburu and Ishiagu all in Ebonyi State on the Akaeze-Aninri-Awgu-Oji River federal road attracted by the senator as a demonstration of love and gratitude.

For those we have trained, we do not relent in carrying out follow up programs and plans are underway to do more of follow-up in the coming year. With regards to training outcomes, the trainings have benefitted participants immensely, touching all end-users the Judges, the Magistrates, Lawyers, Solicitors and Law students etc. A recurring feedback has been that LawPavilion has changed their lives and they really wonder how they were able to cope without our products. This is especially so for those who have LawPavilion products before or after the training. They have been able to derive maximum benefits from the use of our flagship LawPavilion Electronic Legal Research software.

Mrs A. T. Omoyele, of an Ikeja Magistrate Court, has struck out a fraud charge filed against the Chief Executive Officer of Kads Farms Limited, a livestock company, Ken Ogiamien, for want of diligent prosecution. Ogiamien was arraigned on charges of obtaining money by false pretence following a complaint by a policeman, Agha Tobias.