APPOINTMENT OF SAN: LIMITATION OF NUMBER- EFFECT ON MERIT “I am of the view that all persons who merit the rank in any given year should be conferred with it. The sole test, as is now the position in England should be excellence in advocacy. This way there will be no backlog of applicants”. Every year, the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC) invites applications from suitably qualified candidates towards the...Read More

FUNDING OF UNIVERSITIES IN NIGERIA:  ATTITUDE OF NIGERIANS TO GIVING “The average Nigerian has come to believe that everything must be free and that government must provide all. Unfortunately, Nigerians were fed, by successive governments with wrong notion of who should fund university education”. The National Assembly a few days ago passed the 2017 Budget with the sum of about 455 Billion allocated to education. However of this amount only...Read More

RECURRING PROBLEMS IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION: ZERO PARTY AS BASIS FOR ELECTION TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCIL (2) “I suggest that election to local councils should no longer be on political party basis but strictly on zero party. Elections on a zero party system will ensure that candidates will be drawn from the locality in which they seek election. This will bring into office persons who have a higher incentive to...Read More

    Registration is open for what has been described as a highly-recommended, must-attend event: Developing the next generation of researchers Exploring innovative approaches to academic mentoring and career development for emerging researchers Wednesday 12 – Friday 14 July 2017 University of Lagos, Nigeria Over the course of three days, delegates will learn about international good practice in career and professional development planning for early career researchers. This will include looking...Read More

MEA Imagine Cup Finals! Welcome to the homepage of the Middle East and Africa Imagine Cup Finals – Lebanon 2017. This year, the MEA Finals are being held in collaboration with the U.S. Department of State’s Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) initiative. Incredible, world-changing software innovations often come from students. Imagine Cup, Microsoft’s premier international competition for young developers, is your chance to show off your biggest, boldest...Read More