Edo governor, Adams Oshiomhole said on Tuesday in Benin that job creation and food security constituted the barometer for measuring economic growth.

The Federal Government has announced Monday, October 3, as public holiday to mark Nigeria’s 51st independence anniversary, a statement from the Ministry of Interior said Monday.

Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Professor ‘Dibu Ojerinde, yesterday, said over 60,000 of 498,000 candidates who sat for this year’s examination into various tertiary institutions have been offered admission.

THERE was total compliance, yesterday, to the one-week nationwide warning strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, disrupting examinations in the nation’s premier university, University of Ibadan, University of Jos and paralysing academic activities in others.

TWO weeks after the uproar over the reported gang-raping of a student of Abia State University by five hoodlums, the police in Kano State, yesterday, paraded two of the four men who allegedly gang-raped a youth corps member.

WARRI- ONE of the 16 Indian workers of the Delta Steel Company, DSC, Delta State, who, last week, embarked on a 12-hour hunger strike over their pay off, Mr. Ashok Bhute, Monday, declared a total hunger strike.