Palpable tension has enveloped residents of 30 communities in Ketu-land in Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State over the alleged invasion of their farmlands by armed Fulani herdsmen.

PARAMOUNT ruler of Seimbiri Kingdom, Burutu Local Government Area, Delta State, HRM Pere Charles Ayemi-Botu and the Benin City Electrical Distribution Company, BEDC, are flexing muscles over the failure of the power firm to install, connect and commission a private transformer, one year after collecting statutory charges and other fees, amounting to N2.2 million.

MINISTER of Science and Technology, Professor Ita Okon Bassey-Ewa, was, yesterday, walked out by the House of Representatives over his inability to convert budget figures into percentages in his ministry’s 2012 budget.

CLEARLY, participation of Nigerians in the Diaspora in Nigerian electoral process is not only a civic responsibility; it is a fundamental right of every Nigerian of voting age.

A 29 year old man, Chibueze Nwobodo, was yesterday, arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate Court for allegedly assaulting a police officer, Adebayo Rasaq with Number F/ No 457218PC attached to Man Centre Police Station in Ikeja.

Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission, NUC, Prof. Julius Okojie, said yesterday that little or nothing could be done to effect positive changes in the country’s university education system, unless there was urgent improvement in primary and post-primary school systems.

Enugu State Commissioner for Information, Chuks Ugwoke, has refuted a recent newspaper report (not Vanguard) which alleged that Governor Sullivan Chime had returned to Enugu from his vacation and was thereafter flown abroad due to ill-health.

The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) says it has recruited 2,000 graduates to handle the Destination Inspection Scheme (DIS) from January 2013.

WHEN in August, the Rivers State Government conducted recruitment examinations towards boosting the state’s teachers’ workforce with an estimated 13,000 fresh hands, the supervising Ministry of Education had thought the process it instituted for the exercise was perfect and exemplary.

THE bad drama starring Malam Nuhu Ribadu and Mr. Steve Orosanye that played to a full Aso Rock audience when the Ribadu Task Force presented its report has come and gone but comments are still being made by a larger Nigerian audience that viewed the ‘home video’ posted on the internets in different parts of the world.

The Olusola Oke Campaign Organisation has accused Governor Segun Mimiko of evasion of service of notice of the petition filed by the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP at the tribunal.

THE Senate was, yesterday, told that the N1, 305, 292, 050 set aside in the 2013 budget for refreshment and meals and other miscellaneous expenses in the State House will not be enough.

Head coach of the Nigerian national team, Stephen Keshi, has attempted to draw parallels between his current job and his time at the helm of the Mali national team.

The Federal Executive Council, FEC, chaired by the Vice President Namadi Sambo, Wednesday, approved contracts worth N199.19 billion in various sectors of the economy.

Ogun State Governor,Senator Ibikunle Amosun yesterday presented a total sum of N211.86 billion as 2013 appropriation bill as against N200.55billion for this year.