A former Administrative Officer with one of the leading telecom companies in Nigeria (name withheld), Udoh Ekepete Kyrian, 34, and one other suspect, Ikechukwu Attah, 31, were, last week, arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ikeja, for allegedly stealing N50.9million from their victims.

It is no longer news that Transparency International’s Global Corruption Barometer 2010/ 2011, ranked the Nigerian judiciary among the most corrupt institutions in the country.

Not long ago the Lagos State Government was more or less forced to declare that it is alive to its responsibility to the people of the state following an alarm raised by residents and motorists on the precarious state of the Igando-Ayobo wooden bridge.

THE just concluded 102nd International Labour Conference, ILC, did not only afford Nigeria an opportunity to showcase her job creation initiatives among others, to the world, it also provided her an avenue to ask for adequate and equitable regional representation and distribution of all resources, including the recruitment of personnel of the developing nations at all levels of the International Labour Organisation.

Legal luminary and one of Nigeria’s foremost human rights activists, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) has stated that the present ASUU strike is of great concern to him. According to him; “the Federal Government has over the years consistently neglected to adequately our universities. We are involved in the present ASUU strike because ASUU is trying to re-build the universities, force the people in power to fund our universities.”

Mr Momoh Kadiri,is a Nigerian lawyer based in the United Kingdom. In this interview, he spoke on the plan by the National Assembly to regulate the practice of Alternative Dispute Resolution, ADR in Nigeria and the need for the Arbitration and Conciliation Act Cap 18A Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004 to be amended, so that people don’t easily challenge arbitration awards in court, with the sole aim of frustrating same.

‘Western education is a sin.’ That is what Boko Haram means in the English language. Little wonder, the sect has unmercifully punished those deemed perpetrators of that sin; like the 29 students, and one teacher who were murdered last weekend in Yobe state, or the nine students killed in a private school in the Jajeri suburb of the city of Maiduguri last month.

The knowledge of health, safety and environment is no longer the practice of only adults or engineers working in factories or in construction companies as the consciousness has been transferred to students as well. This is a yearly practice at Corona Secondary School, Agbara as it celebrated its 2013 Health, Safety and Environment Day with the theme; Think, Eat and Save to reduce your food print.

Acting Vice-Chancellor of Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, Professor Cordelia Agbebaku, has advocated the enactment of specific laws that will compel governments at all levels to implement the National Gender Policy in order to ensure the protection of women’s rights and gender equality in Nigeria.

Senior Advocates of Nigeria and other lawyers have hailed the appointment of Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun as a justice of the Supreme Court, describing her as a firm believer of substantial justice.