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The Nigeria Law Society, NLS, and the Law Society of Lesotho, have agreed in principle to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the purpose of collaboration to establish a Continuing Legal Education Centre. The agreement was reached at a meeting between Dr. Tonye Clinton Jaja, Executive Secretary of the NLS, and a delegation of
Nigeria, Lesotho law societies to sign MoU on continuing legal education

The Nigeria Law Society, NLS, and the Law Society of Lesotho, have agreed in principle to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the purpose of collaboration to establish a Continuing Legal Education Centre.

The agreement was reached at a meeting between Dr. Tonye Clinton Jaja, Executive Secretary of the NLS, and a delegation of the Law Society of Lesotho, led by Adv. Ithabeleng Phemotse and Adv. Tinkle Tuke, Secretary and President, respectively, on Friday 25th October, 2024, in Lesotho.

Tuke, at the meeting, informed the NLS representative, Jaja, that the MoU will be signed next week.

“Next week I’ll bring in the entire leadership of the Law Society for a meeting with you on this specific objectives.

“I fully support the idea and also the MoU. We should sign it as soon as possible,” Tuke said.

NLS is an emerging professional association of Nigerian lawyers. The organization is currently engaged in a dispute with the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, over its registration.

The emergence of the NLS is also being opposed by the NBA, the umbrella body of lawyers in Nigeria.

However, in an interview with DAILY POST, Secretary of the NLS, Steve Abar, stated that the organization will provide a better alternative for legal practitioners in the country.

Abar insisted that the NLS will benefit Nigerians in several areas, particularly by standing with the citizens and holding government accountable.

Nigeria, Lesotho law societies to sign MoU on continuing legal education

A renowned professor of Agriculture, Nuhu Gworgwor has said that all President Bola Ahmed Tinubu needs to end the raging hunger and food insecurity bedevilling Nigeria is a strong political will to adequately implement agricultural policies. The University Don disclosed this during a 45-page paper presentation at a two-day annual conference of the Forum of
Hardship: What Tinubu govt needs to end hunger, food insecurity – Prof Gworgwor

A renowned professor of Agriculture, Nuhu Gworgwor has said that all President Bola Ahmed Tinubu needs to end the raging hunger and food insecurity bedevilling Nigeria is a strong political will to adequately implement agricultural policies.

The University Don disclosed this during a 45-page paper presentation at a two-day annual conference of the Forum of Former Deputy Governors in Nigeria held in Abuja on Tuesday and Wednesday.

According to him, the lack of strong political will by successive governments in Nigeria has made food insecurity a recurring challenge fine the country.

He noted that the desire to achieve food security has remained elusive in a growing population like Nigeria for the past years.

He blamed growing food insecurity, and malnutrition in Nigeria on insufficient food production, conflict and civil insecurity, gender inequality, climate change and natural disasters.

As a solution, Gworgwor, who is the dean of the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Jos, Plateau State, said the government should adopt innovative measures, which include the use of improved seedlings climate-smarter agricultural practices, employing high technology like computerized machines, drones & artificial intelligence (AI).

“Food security is a very important phenomenon for the ever-growing population of Nigeria and the world at large, where every leader of the world desires to achieve such a feat. However, it is very clear from statistics that this desire has been elusive.

“But, with a very strong political will from any government could implement certain measures to achieve food security, which may include the use of improved seeds/seedlings, climate-smart agricultural practices, employing high technology like computerized machines, drones & artificial intelligence (AI), etc. The government policies, as well as the roles of public-private partnership, could enhance achieving food security if properly synergized and implemented to the later”, he said.

On his part, Halu Mohammed, a political expert at Bayero University, Kano stressed the need for citizens to hold the government and leaders accountable for governance.

“It’s time for Nigerians to demand accountability,” he concluded.

Meanwhile, Former Deputy Governor of Bauchi State, Abdulmalik Mahmood speaking at the sideline of the event on Wednesday said the Tinubu government had sufficiently tamed the Boko Haram menace in the North.

“The menace of Boko Haram has drastically reduced in the North, especially in the North East and North West”, he said.

Earlier, the chairman of the Conference and Former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Victor Attah told Nigerians not to expect magic from the Nigerian 1999 Constitution.

Hardship: What Tinubu govt needs to end hunger, food insecurity – Prof Gworgwor

No fewer than 170 people have now been confirmed dead in the tanker explosion that rocked Jigawa State on Tuesday. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Lawan Adam, in a statement on Friday, noted that 70 others were still critically injured in different hospitals. He said, “The death toll in the petrol tanker explosion
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No fewer than 170 people have now been confirmed dead in the tanker explosion that rocked Jigawa State on Tuesday. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Lawan Adam, in a statement on Friday, noted that 70 others were still critically injured in different hospitals. He said, “The death toll in the petrol tanker explosion

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