MANY lawyers and non lawyers alike are presently glued to their TVs on a daily basis, watching the celebrity trial of Oscar Pistorius unfold. Of course, Oscar Pistorius is a sports Icon, an Olympian better known as the Blade runner. He is a double amputee known all over the world for the extraordinary efforts he has made to live in comfort with an uncomfortable disability.

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Dele Adesina, has advocated establishment of Court of Appeal and Supreme Court for states to ease congestion of cases at higher courts across the country, saying this is one of his expectation at the ongoing National Conference.

PRESIDENT, Chrisgate International, Mr Christopher Alabi, has warned the 2014 Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates not to rely much on their brilliance while tackling the questions, saying that smartness and timeliness in answering questions within the limited time count.

I HAVE structured the lecture into 12 parts. I begin with a brief introduction to the political economy of mineral resources, followed by a description of the critical importance of minerals in modern civilisation.

ACTING Director-General and Chief Executive of the Nigeria French Language Village, Dr Matthew Alawode has lamented the low patronage of the language school by Nigerian students.

THE Federal Government’s dream of making Nigeria world’s hub for leather processing is being realised as a wholly indigenous start-up company, Berekotry Detergent Ltd. based in Iseyin, Oyo State, has discovered, through its cellulose fusion technology, a dual active antifungal and biocide extract with fast efficiency in leather dehairing, allegedly the fastest in the world now.

IT is certainly not a place for the squeamish and the faint-hearted. The reason being that the gory sights there are not only indescribable but more than enough to give anyone serious nightmares. It is a place where you are immediately confronted with an overpowering aura of fear and death. Welcome to the now aptly named Soka Evil Forest in Ibadan, Oluyole Local Government where hundreds of kidnapped victims either met their untimely end or were languishing in agony before they were recently rescued.

A middle aged man, Oforma Itodo, has been allegedly hacked to death in Aji Community, Igbo- Eze North Local Government Area, Enugu State, barely four days after burying his mother.

From the East to West, North to South, regardless of continued threats by the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents, Police formations went agog with jubilation soon after the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, released lists of those elevated to wear new ranks in the force.

THOUGH repairs on Dopemu and Iyana-Ipaja bridges were completed at least three days ahead of schedule, residents of the areas are not impressed. According to them what the bridges need is expansion rather than the purported repairs.