AT the time the curtain fell on 2016 International Bar Association (IBA) Annual Conference in Washington D.C, on September 23, lawyers who attended were better educated on issues of concern to the profession globally. For the Bar and the Bench, conferences at home and abroad are vistas of fresh ideas, challenges and continued legal education that expands the frontiers of practices.

The Managing Director Designate of Niger Delta Development Com-mission, NDDC, Mr. Nsima Ekere, has condoled with the family of former Inspec-tor-General of Police, Sir Etim Inyang, on his death.

STakeholders in education sector, especially Nigerian teachers, yesterday, while celebrating the 2016 World Teachers’ Day, critically identified the abrogation of Grade II teacher, unworkable curriculum and poor remuneration, among others, as the bane of our education standard. Just as it has been disclosed that Nigeria’s education system has lost its glory by occupying the 145th position in primary education advancement in the world’s record.

THE House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee investigating alleged corruption, malpractices and breach of due process in the award of Oil Prospecting Licence, OPL, 245, yesterday said the United Kingdom Prosecution Service has agreed to help Nigeria recover $1.1 billion diverted oil bloc money.

By Davies Iheamnachor PORT HARCOURT—Chief Judge of Rivers State, Justice Iyayi Lamikanra, yesterday, ordered the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to arrest the Comptroller of Federal Prisons and the Deputy Comptroller in charge of Port Harcourt Prisons, over their failure to produce the ex-Chairman of Asari-Toru Local Government Area, Ojukaye Amachree. Amachree is facing […]