Students of the Lagos State University Ojo, have Thursday morning, embarked on a protest over the planned increase in tuition by the authorities of the school.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC has suspended further deductions from the Federation Account in the name of subsidies for petroleum products which the state governments described as illegal and vehemently objected to.

SOME of the aggrieved candidates in the 2011 April National and State House of Assembly elections in Cross River State, whose cases are still pending at the election petitions tribunal, have appealed to the Chief Registrar of Court of Appeal for his intervention in ensuring that their petitions were given adequate attention before the expiration of the life of the tribunal.

THE Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwwal, yesterday revealed why the House of Representatives rejected President Jonathan’s request to alter the approved 2011 budget three months to the end of the fiscal year 2011.

One of the victims of last August 26 bombing of the UN House in Abuja has died in South Africa where he had been undergoing treatment of injuries sustained in the blast.

THE Police in Bauchi State have arrested three suspects including a grandfather and his son over alleged conspiracy and multiple murder.

In a bid to reduce corruption and non-performing contracts in the Federal Civil Service, President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered comprehensive screening of contractors and service providers for the Federal Government.

THE competition for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, gubernatorial ticket became keener, yesterday, following the return of erstwhile Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Mr. Timi Alaibe, to the party. Alaibe, who had decamped to Labour Party, LP, ahead of the botched April, 2011 gubernatorial election, Vanguard learnt, has sought a waiver to enable him contest the PDP primaries slated for November 19.

Disaster was averted, Monday, at Akwa Ibom Broadcasting Corporation transmission station when fire broke out after a vehicle packed on the premises exploded at about 2.15am.

THe activities of government in any civilized nation that upholds the principles of the rule of law, must conform with the due process before getting legitimacy or the force of law. Otherwise, its activities will become unenforceable and illegal.