Our print, electronic and social media have in the past couple of days been heavily inundated with disputation concerning recent proceedings at the National Assembly. What can immediately be said without equivocation is that the Senate did not vote to vary the age of marriage nor did it legitimize child marriage. Rather, what appears to have angered many Nigerians arose from a consideration by Senate, of the ‘age for renunciation of citizenship’, having regard to the provisions of section 29 of the constitution of the Federation of Nigeria, 1999 (hereafter, ‘the Constitution’).

This  is a continuation  of the National Pension Commission, PenCom,  presentation to the Senate  and House of Representatives joint  committee on pension. xii.Funding of the Minimum Pension Guarantee and the Establishment of the Pension Protection Fund (Ss. 82 – 84 of the Bill) The PRA 2004 provides for the payment of a Minimum Pension Guarantee […]

For about two weeks now, the nation has been caught in another hysteria. At the centre of it is a phantom “Child Marriage Bill” supposedly passed by the Senate. Like most matters at the heart of many national frenzies and umbrages in the past, this one too turned out to be another bout of ignorance, mischief, hypocrisy, and professional ineptitude in defence of a false alarm.

Like we argued earlier, the strict rule was developed to ensure “only guilty persons are convicted by the State”. Therefore, it is the end goal of a proceeding that should ordinarily determine the standard of proof to be applied. The ‘strict rule’ ought only to apply where the end goal of a proceeding seeks conviction of a citizen by the State and not where the end goal is a pursuit of compensatory damages, injunctive/restorative reliefs, declarations, restitutive orders etc; such as are often sought in civil and election petition proceedings respectively.

THE National Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, has said no fewer than 500,000 workers have keyed into the Employees Compensation Scheme, ECS. It has also paid over N200 million employees that were injured at workplaces since the commencement of ECS.

Former President, Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Mr Olisa Agbakoba SAN, has filed a suit against Ekiti State Attorney General, over non payment of the state’s judiciary Consolidated Revenue Fund directly to the head of the judiciary, contrary to Section 121(3) of the 1999 Constitution.

Graduating students of Pacific College, Shasha Akowonjo, have been charged to acquire skills in their diverse areas of interests so as to be armed for the country’s economic challenges which would render public service jobs less attractive in the nearest future.

Three public school students in Rivers State will represent the country at the EURASIAN International Debate Competition in Turkey.

Reports of Fulani herdsmen attacking members of their host communities with AK 47 rifles and other dangerous weapons have often been treated as a fairy tale by those saddled with the responsibility of protecting lives and property of the citizenry.

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, councillorship primaries in Ebonyi State has come and gone, but the state has not known peace since then. This is on account of the killing of a youth, Kalu Ogbu, in Edda, Afikpo South LGA during the primaries. The murder had immediately sparked off a peaceful protest by over 500 indigenes of Ekoli Edda in Abakaliki, the State capital.