NATIONAL Chairman of Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, Chief Sam Nkire, yesterday, called on all those who left the party in the last six months to return without conditions or penalties even as he promised a level playing ground for all aspirants wishing to contest this year’s election on the party’s ticket.

THE Lagos State University (LASU) has been embroiled in crisis for over three months now. The students are at home as a result of their lecturers strike to force government to implement a 53% salary increase agreed upon during ASUU’s prolonged strike last year.

Airlines may be com-pelled to increase air fares anytime from now, following new increase in the price of aviation fuel, otherwise known as JET-A1, to N126 per litre from N116, less than two months after another increment.

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP will today Screen its Presidential aspirants to get the party’s flagbearer for the April Presidential election.

Worried by the recent spate of bomb attacks in the country, the Police in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, would deploy anti- terrorist policemen with sniffer dogs for the forthcoming Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential primaries.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has said the greatest honour that could be paid to members of the nation’s Armed Forces who sacrificed their lives in the service of the country is to keep the peace.

Worried by the increasing spate of legal squabbles between some of its key presidential aspirants, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, admonished the duo of President Goodluck Jonathan and former Vice President Atiku Abubarkar to flex their surging muscles at the impending primaries of the party instead of the court rooms.

Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, who was declared the winner of the governorship re-run by polling a total of 275,253 votes to the other 13 contestants, will be sworn in today (Monday).

Last minute withdrawal by the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Ghali Umar Na’Abba from Kano Central Senatorial District, paved way for the emergence of General Abacha’s nephew, Alhaji Basheer Lado, in a bitterly contested primary election held in Kano, yesterday.

A member of the House of Representatives, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, weekend, urged the government to create more jobs for citizens and to reduce the rate of poverty if they want a crime-free society.

THE Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, yesterday, protested what it alleged to be bias in the composition of membership of the National Convention Committee that is to organise the presidential primaries.

NOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has condemned the arrest of seasoned journalist, Mr. Okey Ndibe and the seizure of his passport at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos by security operatives.

RADICAL Lagos Lawyer and activist, Mr. Femi Falana, weekend, threatened to drag the Federal Government to court to challenge the one month extension of holiday for public and private primary and secondary schools in the country to enable Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, conduct a fresh voters’ registeration exercise

Radio, Television, Theatre and Art Workers Union, RATTAWU, on Sunday in Abuja, told the Federal Government to bar local governments councils from collecting radio and television licence levies.

Moments after Uche Okafor made inquiries on certain issues of Nigerian football and possibilities of his awaited engagement by the Nigeria Football Federation, the ex Super Eagles star was found hanging in his house at Little Elm in the neighborhood of Plano in Dallas, Texas.