No fewer than 11 students of Anglican High School, Adebayo area Ado-Ekiti were yesterday arrested by the police for protesting over their alleged demotion by the state ministry of Education.

The Minister of Youths and Social Development Mr. Bolaji Abdullahi in a presentation to the Senate Committee on Youths and Women Affairs yesterday also lamented what he described as the negligible return on the annual N43 billion expended on the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme

Lagos State Government has presented eight traditional rulers in the state cars worth N46 million.

Presidential Candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, in the 2011 elections, General Muhammadu Buhari, Thursday, declared that the party is completely opposed to the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government.

Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, Ajele Station Business Manager, Mr. Famoritye, Thursday, was commended for living up to his responsibility and taking his duty as a PHCN staff serious.

Minister of Education, Professor Ruquyyatu Rufai has said that about N106billion was needed to meet the demands of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, which She said cannot be sourced now.

Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has announced plans by government to shrink the number of government agencies and commissions in its bid to bring down recurrent expenditure, beginning from next year.

THE Nigeria Ports Authority, NPA, Warri Port Personnel Manager, Mrs Ruth Boyo, was, Wednesday, abducted by unknown gunmen at her mother’s residence and driven away to an unknown destination.

WITH the 21-man constitution review committee set up by President Goodluck Ebele Azikwe Jonathan, the stage it seems is set for another debate on the country’s working document.

United Middle-Belt Youth Congress, UMYC, has demanded a separate identity for the people of the region to differentiate them from the Hausa-Fulani and Kanuri peoples of the far North.

A five-man panel of justices of the Supreme Court, Thursday, okayed accelerated hearing on the suit seeking to sack Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State from office.

LOKOJA – four Policemen attached to the Area Commanders office in Okene, Kogi State, were, Thursday, shot dead by suspected armed robbers who carted away four AK-47 rifles belonging to the slain officers.

WITH the national convention of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) slated for February, leading politicians from the South-West geo-political zone have thrown their hats into the arena in the battle for the national secretary slot zoned to the area.

LOKOJA- SCORES of former militants across Niger-Delta states, Thursday, held motorists hostage at Murtala Mohammed overhead bridge on Abuja road in Kogi State, in protest over what they described as the alleged insensitivity of the Federal Government to their welfare.

The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Lagos, yesterday, granted Labour Party, LP, leave to call additional witnesses in the prosecution of its petition against the election of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, candidate, Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu.