2016 July
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REPORT OF NATIONAL CONFERENCE: NEED FOR A REFERENDUM (3)
- July 13, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Afe on Thursday, News, Politics
No CommentsREPORT OF NATIONAL CONFERENCE: NEED FOR A REFERENDUM (3) “Sovereignty belongs to the people. It does not and cannot belong to their elected representatives. Indeed the Section 14(2) of the Constitution provides that sovereignty belongs to the people from whom the government through the Constitution derives its authority and power… the National Assembly cannot without
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JUDGMENT DEBTS: INEQUALITY OF GOVERNMENT AND THE CITIZEN BEFORE THE LAW (3)
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Politics
“As President Buhari sets about his agenda of making Nigeria a destination for foreign investors, it is imperative as has been done by former British Colonies, that his administration sets about the task of amending the provision of Sheriffs and Civil Process Law which make it virtually impossible for judgment debts to be enforced”.
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Cost and Funding of University Education(2)
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Funding
READERS’ COMMENTS “I will like to implore Chief Babalola to please for posterity sake expand the scope of the topic and publish the series as a book. It will go a long way to guide or policy makers on how to improve the standard of education in Nigeria” – Adewuyi Adegbite “It has been nice
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JUSTICE: LOSS OF PUBLIC CONFIDENCE – LAWYERS ALONE NOT TO BLAME (4)
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Afe on Thursday, Law, Politics
JUSTICE: LOSS OF PUBLIC CONFIDENCE – LAWYERS ALONE NOT TO BLAME (4) “I have referred to all these examples to show the role played by clients themselves in contributing to the malaise affecting our justice delivery system. The win at all costs attitude encourages many to employ all manner of unscrupulous means to achieve their own
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POST UTME AND ACCESS TO FUNCTIONAL AND QUALITATIVE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION; THE ANSWER (2)
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Education
As a result of this the Committee of Pro Chancellors under my chairmanship met to deliberate on the possibility of scrapping JAMB. At the end of intense debates which as a matter of fact was witnessed by top management of JAMB, the Committee of Pro Chancellors recommended the scrapping of JAMB to the Presidency. However
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Jonathan’s China Visit: Pluging into New Wave of Development
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Politics
I would like to start this write-up by commending of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, for the well informed and highly commendable business tour of China in his avowed and continued determination to see that Nigeria plugs into the new wave of development that is currently blowing across the length and
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GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE:
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Politics
PREMATURE DISSOLUTION OF GOVERNING COUNCILS (2) “Some Nigerians feel that the only way they can contribute to National development is to bring children to the world and leave everything about their welfare including their education to the government”. Last week I began an examination of the recent dissolution by Government, of the Governing
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BUHARI’S STANDOFF ON FURTHER DEVALUATION OF NAIRA A REPEAT OF HIS POSITION IN 1983– A COMMENDABLE DECISION (3)
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Funding
“It will be a disaster if the proposition of further devaluation of Naira is accepted by Buhari led government. To avoid further devaluation, the government is advised to embark on nine deliberate economic and political measures stated herein” As I stated last week, the devaluation of the Naira over the years and in recent times
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JUSTICE: LOSS OF PUBLIC CONFIDENCE- SEPARATION OF INVESTIGATIVE AND PROSECUTORIAL FUNCTIONS (6)
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Afe on Thursday, Law
JUSTICE: LOSS OF PUBLIC CONFIDENCE- SEPARATION OF INVESTIGATIVE AND PROSECUTORIAL FUNCTIONS (6) “Both the ICPC and the EFCC have powers not only to investigate but also to prosecute. …if the prosecutor becomes involved in the investigation of a case, then the prosecutor may become committed to a particular line of inquiry and loose objectivity in
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THE MARCH 2014 CONSTITUTIONAL CONFERENCE- FINALITY OF NATIONAL CONFERENCE CONSTITUTION (2)
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Politics
“The delegates must resolve that the constitution they make shall not be varied nor panel-beaten by any other body whatsoever”. CONSTITUIONAL SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE. Last week, I suspended my 8 month old discussion of the problems afflicting education in Nigeria in order to reiterate some of the pitfalls in the 1999 Constitution and the