The National Judicial Council, the apex body for the nation’s Judiciary, is one of the Federal Executive Bodies created under Section 153 of the 1999 constitution.

By Laja Thomas The rationale for the  delisting of INEC as a Federal Executive body removes the requirement that the Chair must be a member of a political party. The participants therefore made the following recommendations. The appointment of the Chair of INEC shall be by the Council of State which is headed by the […]

The central challenge for contemporary public interest organizations involves not formulating strategies, but developing the funding and policy leverage to implement them. Virtually all organizations report major difficulties in meeting their financial needs.

It was not only ASUU that went on strike in the out-going year. The other unions — the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Related Institutions (NASU) — also battled the Federal Government, pressing for the signing of one agreement or the other which they allegedly reached with government.

Healthcare professionals in West African sub-region have been called upon to work together in the area of medical education, research and healthcare to enable Africa achieve self sufficiency in healthcare delivery system.

Recently, public schools from all the 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) gathered in Abuja to showcase their instructional materials made from available local resources.

For a number of years, organized labour has been deliberating on how to get the unorganized sector organized. Several workshops have been held but nothing concrete has taken place. Recently, the Nigeria Labour Congress took steps to bring the informal sector into its fold.

PETROLEUM and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), has expressed concerned over denial of workers’s right in the country’s Free Trade Zones (FTZ) especially freedom of association as enshrined in the section 40 of the nation’s constitution.

The Director of Studies, Universal School of Aviation, Mr Onifade Eedris Adekunle has called on youths and aviation industry stakeholders not to hesitate in contributing their quota to the upliftment of aviation industry in Nigerian adding that adequate knowledge of aviation would enhance national growth and minimize dangers in the industry.

AS year 2010 rolls in tomorrow, the managers of the nation’s education sector will be doing Nigerians a whole lot of good by making a new year resolution of taking the sector to an unprecedented higher level in 2010.