Several female students of Imo State University, IMSU, Owerri, living in hostels located close to the Anglican Bishop’s court, were mercilessly robbed and raped by dare devil armed robbers last Wednesday

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Senator Anyim Pius Anyim yesterday in Abuja inaugurated an eight man- Committee to look into the Security challenges in the North-Eastern part of the country.

THE FEDERAL Government yesterday invited leaders of Nigeria Labour Congress NLC, and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, to an emergency meeting today in what feelers described as desperate attempts to persuade labour of its commitment to honour the July 19 agreement on the N18.000 after embarrassing comments by its officials on Thursday.

Discordant tunes have continued to trail President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposed 6-year single term for elected president and governors with many suspecting the president has hidden agenda. Alhaji Balarabe Musa , former governor of old Kaduna state told Saturday Vanguard that the agenda if accepted, the proposal could alter the 2015 elections.

The suspected members of a killer-gang arrested early in the week by detectives attached to the Special Anti-Robbery unit, SARS, Ikeja, over series of bank robbery operations in Lagos metropolis have reportedly been charged to court and remanded at the maximum prison, Kirikiri, Lagos.

Details of how the planned single term of office for the President and governors emerged yesterday. The idea was recommended for the Federal Government by a coalition of political parties which submitted a report in May 2008.

NINE persons from Umudioka village in Awka, Anambra State were yesterday arraigned before an Awka chief magistrate court on a 10 –count charge of flogging and beating up the administrator of St. Patrick’s Catholic Cathedral, Awka, Reverend Father Patrick Chukwuma and a community leader, Major Christopher Nwole (rtd), among others, following a disagreement over the dust to dust ritual during the burial ceremony of one Raphael Nwako who died early this year.

Displaced indigenes of Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River State have called on the Federal Government and the National Boundary Commission, NBC, to fully implement the Bakassi Resettlement Committee report.