over three persons lost their lives while others sustained injuries in two auto accidents at separate locations in Lagos State.

Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday, after a long deliberation passed a vote of no confidence on the Vice Chancellor of Lagos State University, LASU, Prof. Lateef Hussain, and called on the visitor to the institution, Governor Babatunde Fashola, to immediately put the machinery in motion for his removal.

Kwara State Governor and Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Dr. Olusola Saraki, has urged the United Nations to use its global goodwill to garner the requisite resources to support Nigeria in measles control and Polio eradication in the country.

Following the October 1 twin bomb blasts that claimed over 12 lives at Abuja, police formations across the country have started evacuating abandoned vehicles parked near their premises.

ANAMBRA indigenes in the United States of America have mapped out programmes for the development of the state, as part of their contributions to support what they described as the forward-looking administration of Governor Peter Obi.

NATIONAL President of Nigerian Association of Women Entrepreneurs, NAWE, Mrs. Ada Ozongwu, has lamented the poor attitude of women in the country towards accessing loans and other credit facilities.

Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State has appealed to lecturers of Abia State University to call off their strike, with a commitment to gradually offset the salary demands as requested by Abia Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU.

About 70 students across Anambra State have benefitted from the scholarship scheme instituted by an Onitsha-based industrialist and chairmanship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Lady Ann Chukwuneke.

OWERRI—Imo State government loses over N60 million annually to194 ghost workers in the State Universal Basic Education Board, IMSUBEB.

No fever than four persons have been reported killed in Bayelsa State in the wake of renewed pirate attacks.

CROSS RIVER State government has condemned the deplorable and tragic communal clash which occurred on Saturday in Boki Local Government Area between Nsadop and Boje communities, over land rights, which claimed about 35 lives and imposed a dusk to dawn curfew on the two warring communities and their environs.

Former Deputy Governor of Edo State, Rev. Peter Obadan, has advised that to effectively re-position the state for 2011 general elections, there is need for absolute reconciliation of all factions that have torn the party apart.

THE people of Oviri-Okpe, Okpe Local Government Area, Delta State, have threatened to stage a protest in Abuja against the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC) should it fail to pay them N500 million compensation over oil spillage in their community.

GOVERNOR Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State has threatened to drag the Rivers State University of Science and Technology chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to court for embarking on strike over agreement reached with the Federal Government by its national body.