Social media was awash last weekend with news that the Senate had signed a ‘child marriage act’ into law, legalizing marriage for girls under the age of 18. Although lawmakers have corrected this notion, saying that the section stated above only relevant to “renunciation of citizenship” alone, the ruckus has created ample opportunity for well meaning Nigerians to campaign for education for the girl-child instead of under-aged marriage.

LEADERS of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, have threatened to mobilize members against the Senate over bi to remove labour from the exclusive list and deregulate the national minimum wage.

The National Industrial Court in Lagos has adjourned to October 9, 2013 for hearing of suit against Petroleum And Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), by Mr Douglas Atagamhen, over payment of his entitlement after he was sacked.

which include the legal capacity of the parties to the litigation. The Constitutional provisions on locus standi are contained in sections 6(6)(b), 46(1) and 272(1) of the 1999 Constitution as amended.

Eminent educationist and Managing Director of Westminster College (WC), Lagos, Chief Johnson Barovbe, has berated the over emphasis on theoretical education in basic and tertiary teaching across schools in the country.

Parents have been advised to invest in their children’s education as by so doing, they are laying solid foundation for a brighter future for them.

Just two weeks ago in the ancient city of Ibadan, Oyo State, there was a bloody clash between the followers of the popular traditional masquerade, Oloolu and some street boys. This incidence reminds meof the same clash between Alhaji Azeez Ajagbemo-keferi, an Islamic religious leader and followers of Oloolu in the mid 60s. The crisis led to the arraignment of the Islamic leader for assaulting the masquerade before a High Court in Ibadan. A lawyer who was less than 10 years old at the bar then brilliantly and successfully defended Alhaji Ajagbemokeferi. Late Justice Ogunkeye upheld the arguments of the lawyer.

No fewer than a hundred students who graduated from different secondary schools in Nigeria are ready to depart the country to attend various universities in the USA.

The winner of the Indomie 2013, National Spelling Bee Competition, Master Boadley Juwon Afolarin, who emerged this year’s One-day-governor, on Monday, July 22nd, paid a courtesy call to the corporate headquarters of Dufil Prima Foods, major sponsor of the annual spelling Bee competition.

This piece high lights thoughts on a fundamental statutory misconception that has underlined the treatment of criminal allegations made in election petition proceedings in Nigeria. It engages the historical rationale for the requirement that criminal allegations must be proved beyond reasonable doubt and argues that such is incongruous with election petitions and other variants of civil proceedings.