Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, said state governors’ opposition to the Sovereign Wealth Fund, SWF, and the Excess Crude Account is borne out of distrust for the Federal Government’s ability to judiciously manage the funds and utilise it for the purpose it was meant for.

THE national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, declared, yesterday, that it would not interfere in the controversy surrounding the reinstatement of the former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami

HUMBLE, humane, team player, generous, unassuming, the list goes on. These were the adjectives used to describe the late Professor Adetokunbo Babatunde Sofoluwe, the 10th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos by staff, students and associates when Vanguard Learning went to feel the pulse on campus following the sudden death of the helmsman.

As part of measures to ensure that security arrangements at the country’s airports are functional and capable of detecting threats to the country’s aviation sector, the House of Representatives, yesterday, directed its committee on aviation to carry out a full audit of all security facilities at the nation’s airport and report to it within four weeks.

OWERRI – Staff of Imo Specialist Hospital, Owerri, yesterday embarked on indefinite industrial action over irregular payment of salaries and anti-labour policies of the hospital management.

The House of Representatives is set to commence the process of amending the extant Constitution with landmark proposals to set the State legislative houses and the local government councils from the iron-grip of the nation’s governors!

AWKA – A DEPUTY Director with the Anambra-Imo River Basin Development Authority, Owerri, Mr. Basil Ejezie, has been clubbed to death at his Umunze, Anambra State country home on a day members of his church were celebrating this year’s Fathers’ Day.

SEVEN years after, three persons; Dele Akinbolade, Olorunfunnibi Akintomide and Opeyemi Olaiya were yesterday sentenced to death for robbery by an Ondo High Court.

IKEJA—There was a mild drama before an Ikeja High Court, Lagos, yesterday, when a Lagos-based businessman, Mr. Babajide Jose, suddenly fell ill while given evidence on how he was allegedly swindled of N35.5 million by Deji Abiola, son of the late politician, Chief M.K.O. Abiola, who was to supply him (Jose) printing machine.

National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, and The National Association of Polytechnic Students, NAPS, yesterday, called on the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, to pay more attention to the corruption going on in the nation’s tertiary institutions.

Against the background of alleged threats to arrest him on account of his predictions of a bloody response to any rigging of the 2015 elections, erstwhile military Head of State General Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, dared President Goodluck Jonathan to carry out the threat.

Their black attires showed the mood of thousands of students at the University of Lagos on Tuesday as they took to the streets in a candlelight procession for their late Vice Chancellor, Professor Adetokunbo Sofoluwe, who passed on last week.

Nigeria will storm Calabar May 27 ahead of a 2014 World Cup qualifier against Namibia next month, officials disclosed.

Palpable anxiety enveloped residents of the ancient town of Ilaro, the headquarters of Yewa South Local Government Area after hundreds of youth members of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, yesterday threw caution into the wind over alleged plot by Governor Ibikunle Amosun and leaders of the party in the state to impose Chairmanship candidate on the people of the area.

NO fewer than 15 pupils of Summit Comprehensive Secondary College and pupils of Mary Groups of Schools, Ogbere, Ibadan, were injured in an auto crash when being conveyed to their schools in a commercial bus yesterday.