The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) weekend warned that it might be forced to embark on strike action to press home its demand for the implementation of its 2009 agreement with the Federal Government on the amendment of the Pension Act and 70 years retirement age.

The 21 days of Y’ellow Care programme recently observed by the telecommunications giant, MTN might have come and gone but its impact on many Nigerian students will remain ever green especially in the area of mentoring, an aspect that has almost been neglected by many academicians in the country.

A former ICAN official has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to douse the controversy surrounding the so called Islamic banking by restricting itself to the tenets and spirit of the Banking And Other Financial Institutions Act (BOFIA).

MR Anthony Aziegbeni is a two-time member of the House of Representatives (Esan South East and Esan North East Federal constituency of Edo State) between 1999-2007. Last week, the Russian trained security expert donated a church building to members of his community in Emu, Esan South East. After the church was dedicated by the Catholic ArchBishop of Benin Diocese, Bishop Augustine Akubueze, he, in a chat with Vanguard, defended the choice of Arch.Mike Onolemenmen as Minister from the state and said that in spite of the crisis the PDP was currently facing in Edo, it would dethrone Governor Adams Oshiomhole of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) at the 2012 guber polls.

Those who think the United Kingdom has made the opportunity of Nigerian students securing study Visa abroad stiff and unattainable can breathe a sigh of relief as the representative of thirty universities and colleges in the UK and five universities in Canada; Mrs. Bola Agunbiade has stated that obtaining study Visa will henceforth be easy if the student has genuine credentials.