FOR the enhancement of the quality of justice being delivered to the Nigerian society, a World Bank sponsored survey will soon be conducted to determine the problems facing administration of justice and recommend solutions to them.

No fewer than 80 million Nigerians have been declared poor with low standard of living. Dr. Mark Tomlinson, the World Bank Country Director for Nigeria made the disclosure at a national workshop on the Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy in Abuja. He said this proportion of poverty in the country had snowballed over the last two decades when the country received over $300 million from the sale of oil and gas.

YOWEDI, a forum for the promotion of social justice and the empowerment of women and youths towards a better and greater Nigeria, requests assistance in the areas of capacity building, networking and sponsorship, and asks that NGOs furnish them with further information covering their organization.

An editorial in This Day (Lagos) criticizes CNN for suggesting that recent ethnic clashes in Lagos and the explosion at a munitions warehouse have led to a eagerness among the Nigerians to see a resumption of military rule. Last weekend CNN Bureau chief in Nigeria, Jeff Koinange, reported, "people are tired of democracy and now want the military back."

Members of the militant Ooodua People's Congress [OPC] of mostly Christian Yorubas and the mostly Muslim Hausas clashed in Lagos over the weekend, leaving an untold number of people dead.