This is not the best of times for Imo State Judiciary. In this interview, the state Chief Judge, Justice Benjamin Njemanze, spoke on a number of issues affecting the state judiciary.

RECENT developments in Imo State seem to suggest that commercial pregnancy has become the next big business with baby factories springing up surreptitiously in certain parts of the state. For instance, barely one week after the Imo State Government summarily revoked the licences earlier issued to foster homes and motherless babies homes, the State Police Command has rescued 16 pregnant teenage girls in Ezuma Private Hospital, a private medical establishment located in the outskirts of Egbu, Owerri North local council area of the state.

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr. Tayo Oyetibo, has called on governments to ensure that courts in the country use electronic recording system, and stop the usage of taking proceedings in long hand.

DETAILS of how the Cross River Stat Government recovered 26 million Naira between 2012 and 2013 through the Electronic payment of pensioners introduced by the State Pensions Board, have emerged.
While N17 million was recovered in 2012, N9 million was recovered in payments made in the first half of 2013.

Today should have marked the end of the ultimatum given by the Supervising Minister of Education, Barr. Nyesom Wike to members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to either defy the 5 month-old strike embarked upon by the union and resume duties or get sacked.

The ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will, for a variety of reasons, be imprinted in the sands of time. One undeniable reason for this is the passing of a former ASUU President, late Prof. Festus Iyayi, who died on November 12, 2013, in a road accident on his way to attend the ASUU NEC meeting in Kano State.

The Federal University of Technology, Akure, through its Centre for Entrepreneurship, CENT, has commenced the training of Cocoa Pruners who are being taught modern skills in cocoa pruning that will enhance better yield.

Winners have emerged in the third edition of the UBA National Essay Competition for Senior Secondary Schools in Nigeria .

Pathetically, Nigeria’s quest to become one of the top 20 global economies by 2020 has continuously hit the brick-wall, in what concerned stakeholders have argued to be the nation’s over-dependence on imported basic goods such as matches box, toothpicks, cotton buds, water starch, disinfectants, among others.

If the unlikely event or hypothetical situation of the State High Court having been abolished by the Military Government, would the abolished court have been resurrected because the appellant had instituted an action the cause of action which arose when that court was still in existence? The answer is of course in the negative. It is essential to differentiate the application of the law when cause of action arose and the jurisdiction exercisable by the court when the proponent of an action decided to institute an action”.