An energy law expert, Ayodele Oni, has called for new laws to create more incentives for investment in the “power value chain.” He stated that Nigeria needs a few new regulations on “renewable” and on other engineering standards, cabling, among others.

Barrister Tanko Ashang is a legal adviser to the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA. In this interview, he spoke on the report recently submitted by the Presidential Committee on the Resettlement and Rehabilitation of the Bakassi people set up by the Federal Government.

Following perennial flooding at Iyana Ejigbo junction along the Isolo-Egbe Road, in Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, of Lagos State, the Ministry of the Environment has concluded plans to embark on immediate de-flooding of the area.

…As indigent students receive scholarship
Friday, May 10, in Warri, Delta State, the dream of 16 intelligent but indigent students of acquiring qualitative education was made possible courtesy of Morgan Smart Development Foundation (MSDF).

Mr. Shantanu Prakash is the Chairman and Managing Director of Educomp Solutions Ltd which was founded in 1994. He is the man responsible for bringing the much-awaited change in the Indian education system. In this interview with journalists, he spoke on the antidote to Nigeria’s falling education standards. Excerpts:

In an employable skills test conducted by employers of labour recently in Lagos, most of the corps members have through their performances justified claims that most graduates are not employable.

The Vocational Training Centre of the Nigeria Society for the Blind has called on the Federal Government to fulfill the financial commitments it made to the centre a few years ago.

When the Plateau State Government banned the operation of commercial motorcycles, otherwise known as ‘Okada’, in the Jos-Bukuru metropolis sometime back, there were mixed reactions to the ban. While there are those who felt the ban would compound the difficulty of commuters who had depended on them for ease of movement, many other residents heaved a sigh of relief for various reasons, principal among which was because of the negative use to which the bikes were being put by criminals and miscreants.

Students of the Faculty of Communication and Information Sciences (CIS), University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), have threatened to boycott the ongoing second semester examinations in the school if the leadership of their faculty fails to refund the sum of N2500 out of the initial N5000 they paid to access internet facility for the whole session, but which they didn’t enjoy throughout the first semester.

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on the Federal Government to improve on its support for the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Warri, Delta State in order to encourage technological research in the institution.