The Commission submits that the National Assembly should de-emphasis the issue of qualifying years of experience and adopt the model of the CBN Act where no requirement of specific years of post-qualification experience is stipulated by the CBN Act. This is the position that is consistent with global best practice which emphasizes competency rather than years of post-qualification experience, which does not necessarily translate into capacity and capability.

TALES of woes from Federal Government retirees in Lagos, have continued to elicit emotional reactions as the retired civil servants battle to draw attention of government to their plight.

The on-going Annual Bar Conference of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), reputed as the largest assemblage of lawyers in black Africa, with a staggering population of over 10,000 members in attendance, from every part of the country and even beyond, at the prestigious Tinapa Resort in Calabar, Cross River State, under the audacious theme, “ Law, Leadership and Challenges of Nationhood in the 21stCentury Nigeria”, with Prof. Jonas Isawa Elaigwu, an erudite Professor of Law, as the Keynote speaker.

No! Do the fundamental components, like Summons- Drafting of Charges- Preferring of Information- Plea Taking and Mandatory recording of plea- Bail Issues- Mandatory presence of Accused person throughout Trial- Acquittal- Conviction- Allocutus- Sentencing etc, which distinguish criminal trials from civil ones, ever find place in Election Petitions which are uncontrovertibly civil in their procedural rules and final outcomes sought? No!

ORGANISED Labour in Delta State, has reaffirmed the validity of the Memorandum of Understanding,MOU, reached in April 2013 with the management of the state Direct Labour Agency, DLA, and Amalgamated Union of Public Corporation, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees, AUPCTRE, unit of the agency on some labour issues.

Lagos State Government disclosed that it has trained 180 students from the state’s public schools in agricultural entrepreneurship.

The Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, Centre for Gender Issues in Science and Technology (CEGIST) has organised a capacity-building seminar for National Youth Service Corps, NYSC members serving in Ondo State.

Eleven Nigerian students have been awarded scholarship in various fields of study through United Kingdom Chevening scholarship scheme for the year 2013 to 2014.

Liberia’s main public university said on Wednesday all 25,000 applicants for the new academic year had failed its entrance exam, prompting the president to describe poor education standards in the impoverished nation as a “national emergency”.

Pipeline vandalism and oil theft has been on the increase in parts of the country, including Lagos. It is a challenge the relevant security agencies have been battling to put in check. In Lagos, for instance, the National Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, popularly known as Civil Defence, is said to have risen to the occasion in clamping down on the activities of these vandals and oil thieves, resulting in several arrests made in recent time. The State Commandant of the Corps, Mr Adesuyi Clement Dayo, during a recent chat with Vanguard Metro informed of efforts by the Command in tackling the problem in the state and the attendant challenges: