The reaction by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), that it was already investigating the petition of the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), over alleged financial impropriety and abuse of office by the Rector, Yaba College of Technology, YABATECH, Lagos, Dr. Margaret Ladipo, caused a mild drama at the Lagos office of the anti-corruption agency, last Tuesday.

‘’Post UTME is tautology; it means the school authorities are undermining the capability of JAMB by conducting their own exams. “ Teachers Registration council of Nigeria (TRCN), for instance, was established to determine the standards of knowledge and skills required to become registered teachers.

WOMEN in academia have been urged to leverage their acquired knowledge in academics and influence women folk especially the less privileged youth in the society, to fulfill their innate potentials. Representatives of selected women in academia from Nigerian institutions in higher learning who stormed the international conference held in Houston, Texas, USA, agreed to harness their God given potentials to empower young women.

Together we planned my future; selected the courses and reviewed the progress. Even when I decided on Economics as my major subject, there were more questions regarding what I wanted to do with it. It was my disclosure about concern about poverty and its alleviation among Nigerians which influenced the elective courses. Mostly, I concentrated on Fiscal Policy matters and less on monetary issues. By choice, I could not be a banker; I was, and still am, happy to let others chase money.

HIV: We have had so many claims by people of medicinal plants with anti-HIV activities but we had no means of screening them so in 2003/2004, we developed a technique called Vector-based Assay technique whereby we can actually screen large number of medicinal plants for anti-HIV activities.