Three months after members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) downed their tools nationwide, over failure of Federal Government to accede to core areas of their 2009 agreement, some of the affected students who are currently on their compulsory Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) have bemoaned the protracted shut-down. On the other hand, some others students who spoke to Quadlife could not care less and seem to be quite content at their SIWES placements.

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As Nigeria joined other countries in observing the World Day Against the Death Penalty, the Human Right Law and Service (HURILAWS) and the Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP) have called for abolition of death penalty in the country and over-haul of the entire criminal justice system.

The Commissioner for Education, Rivers State Dame Alice Lawrence-Nemi has flagged-off the 15th Education Conference of the German skilled crafts sector in Berlin. The conference dealt with the export of vocational education and training, the strengths of the German dual training system and the recruitment of skilled employees.

Amid insinuations in some quarters that Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi, has been interfering in performance of judges functions , the State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice Worgu Boms, has debunked the allegation describing it as not only a criminal contempt but also desperation of emerging political group in the state.

Sixteen-year-old Emmanuel Ejiogu Onyekachi of Miketoy College, Ikotun, Lagos State, has emerged winner of the first Chemistry Challenge sponsored by PZ Cussons.

The Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Communications, Hon. Ojo Oyetunde, has advised Nigerian students to avoid all forms of cyber crimes capable of destroying their future.

The Principles of conventional international law and treatise impose significant obligations on States to requiring the prosecution of atrocious crimes. This is because violations against humanity endanger the value of the global community.

NON-ACADEMIC Staff Union of Educational and Associated Instituctions, NASU, has expressed serious reservation about the deliberate misinterpretation of the Retirement Age Act for Polytechnics and Colleges of Education by some state governors who are insisting that the Act is only for Academic Staff.

Samuel Adewumi Dada was a President of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, between 1984 and May 1989, and an ex-employee of Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, where he worked for almost 23 years before retirement in November 1999. He was an administrator of “Help Desk” where people (employees) who were having problems with their computers were assisted to rectify such problems. In this interview with Pension and You, he speaks on the battle with CNL over unpaid wages, how to prepare and when to start preparing for retirement.