National Planning Minister, Dr. Shamsudeen Usman who made the remark at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island venue of a Special Breakfast Meeting hosted by Business Day, declared, “Lagos State has set the example of a kind of action that will take Nigeria into improving the overall competitiveness in the country”.

His election was declared null and void following the appeal filed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Okun Obiremi that the election that ushered him into the House was fraught with irregularities which contravened the Electoral Act, 2006.

Earlier, the NUC through its Deputy Executive Secretary, Professor Ignatius Uvah told the Senate Committee that, the commission had uncovered about 45 ilegal universities operating across the country.

The Governors’ forum noted the Reforms in the Petroleum Sector especially the Petroleum Industry Bill currently under consideration by the National Assembly.

Chief Akeredolu, who spoke at the launch of ‘Easy Law: Digital Rules of Court’ at the Institute of Advance Legal Studies, University of Lagos, said that the trend in the legal profession today dictates that all the rules are better unified, so that legal practitioners in the country will use one rule, instead of the different rules presently in operation in all the states of the federation.