The House of Representatives is at the verge of putting finishing touches to a bill that would change the face of the administration of Criminal Justice in Nigeria.

The Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions, ASSBIFI, has threatened to drag Eco bank Limited to court following the bank’s recent sacking of its 147 staff members, saying that if the severance fee of the affected staff are not paid in two weeks the bank may also be picketed.

Following the Lagos State Commissioner for Education’s reported ban on wearing of hijab by Muslim students in the state’s public schools, Muslim parents have expressed their grievances, saying such is against the practice of Islam.

For students seeking admission into universities, all hope is not lost yet, as representatives of Indian universities have disclosed that Indian government has an education policy to admit 15 per cent African students yearly into their various universities which have 17 million capacity adding that examination is not compulsory.

The 13th One-Day- Governor of Lagos State has emerged at the 2013 Spelling Bee competition held at Alausa, Lagos. The competition was organised in two phases for both primary and secondary school students. There were 52 contestants from 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas.

Few months ago, Nigerians woke up to receive with shock and disbelief, news of the decrepit level of decay at the Police College, Ikeja, Lagos coupled with its deplorable state. The college located on Oba Akinjobi way, close to Arch Bishop V inning Cathedral never gave any passer-by the slightest inkling of its real state, until it was revealed by a television station in January, 2013.

Last week in Lagos, it was the end of the road for a suspected representative of a cartel of drug counterfeiters based in China when operatives of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, succeeded in arresting one Olisaemeka Osefor, alleged to be one of their kingpins in Nigeria. The drug cartel specializes in the production and shipment of various fake and counterfeit products into the Nigerian market.

Residents of 500 Housing Estates, otherwise called ‘Bafarawa Quarters’ in Sokoto metropolis, recently demonstrated how communities can assist in fighting crime in their vicinity. It was at about 5.30am when they were going to the mosque to say their early morning prayers. They accosted a 15- year- old JSS II boy, Godwin Dominic who was brought from Aba to run errands for one of their neighbours identified as Mrs. Bola Balogun. He was in possession of two sacks popularly called Ghana Must Go.

• It’s not abandoned – Govt
IT seems residents and visitors to Lagos State, will have to wait a little longer for the commencement of the multi million naira contract for the installation of Close Circuit Televisions, CCTVs, in the state aimed at addressing perennial security and traffic challenges.

AJEGUNLE, popularly known as the ghetto city is located in the Ajeromi/Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State. It has a dense population of about 555,000 people and 335 streets. It is bordered on the west by Apapa Wharf and Tincan, two of Nigeria’s biggest sea ports from where over 70 percent of imported goods come into the country.