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.

NATIONAL President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor yesterday picked holes in a statement credited to the Sultan of Sokoto and president general of Jamatul Nasril Islam JNI, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubukar, saying it falls short of expectations.

The idea of a change in the length of the tenure of the President, the Governors and the respective Legislature has been mooted on various occasions in the past.

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.

Super Eagles captain Joseph Yobo has promised to make the best out of the international friendly match against their arch rival, the Black Stars of Ghana on August 9 in London.

With the Preliminary Draw for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil today, FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter addressed the press on Wednesday 27 July in Rio Janeiro where they restated their belief that Brazil 2014 would be a success.

Child Trafficking in the Eastern part of Nigeria is a lucrative trade. In Nigeria, human trafficking ranks the third most common crime after financial fraud and drug trafficking. At least 10 children are sold every day across the country, according to the UN. Globally, the traffickers earn $33 billion yearly.

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.

In less than two weeks as Federal Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen made a working tour of on-going federal government roads in Lagos State last weekend to scan the extent of damage and progress on the roads.

On July 17, 2011, Toni Payne-Akande sent out a subliminal wedding anniversary shout out to her estranged hubby 9ice on Twitter.The message could not have been for 9ice who has been off the micro blogging site for sometime; but, for the discerning ones among Toni’s nearly 15,000 followers. ‘July 17, 2011…‘ she first wrote through her handle.