The controversy whether or not the amended constitution by the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria requires presidential assent is an academic exercise. This is because presidential assent to constitutional amendment is superfluous, unnecessary and not required by the provisions of Section 9 of the 1999 Constitution.

Known enemies of democracy, experts at election rigging, certified manipulators of the will of the people and promoters and merchants of electoral violence followed the bandwagon and celebrated or pretended to have celebrated the appointment of Professor Attahiru Jega as the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission.

AS a way of ensuring an effective teaching and learning of science subjects at the basic education level, the Federal Government, through the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), has given out 2,548 science kits to some selected Junior Secondary Schools across the 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory.

As part of efforts to reinforce the importance of education, 1Goal initiative was launched to help rally support for the education of about 75 million students who are out of school. The initiative basically, has three objectives.

Recently, the military hierarchy began to make a case for the withdrawal of military men from the barely six years old Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, introduced by the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo, a retired general of the Nigerian Army.