Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Technology, FUTO, Owerri, Professor Celestine Onwuliri, has expressed concern over low preference of students for agriculture.

THE Federal government said yesterday that slow implementation of the Millennium Development Goal, MDG, projects by many states may mar the country’s hope of achieving the objectives of the programme by the targeted year of 2015.

GOVERNOR Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State, has said the delay being experienced by teachers in the payment of their 27.5 per cent salary increase is to avoid industrial unrest in the state.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has decried the growth of imbalance of information between the developed and developing countries of the world.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday adjourned till tomorrow, for hearing in the bail application by sacked Group Chief Executive Officer of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Mr Erastus Akingbola, who was arraigned recently by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a 22-count charge of fraud, granting reckless credit facility, abuse of office and mismanagement of depositors’ funds.

SOME airlines, banks situated within the new domestic terminal of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, MMA2, Ikeja, Lagos, have threatened to relocate their operations from the facility over increase in rent by the operators, Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited, for office space from N60 million to between N80 million and N100 million annually.

For several hours the combined team of security operatives prevented the students of the University of Ado Ekiti, UNAD, from disrupting a public lecture organised by the university, as the students trooped out in large numbers protesting what they described as astronomical hike in school fees.