AHMADU Bello University, ABU, Zaria, plans to raise the number of students being admitted into the institution from 6,000 to 50,000 over the next 10 years, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abdullahi Mustapha, has said.

EBONYI State Police Command, yesterday, said it had arrested six suspects in connection with the murder of one Chikaudili Okrouga, 30, at Okposi Development Centre in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.

A Director with the Kebbi State, Ministry of Finance, Yahyah Saidu Andarai, and one Farouk Abubarka Uduli, were yesterday, arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before an Ikeja High Court for allegedly stealing N64 million belonging to Coscharis Motors Ltd.

DELTA State Police Commissioner, Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba, said the command had so far demolished five buildings used by kidnappers as their operational bases and cells where their victims were kept in unlawful custody while demanding ransom.

NATIONAL Union of Rivers State Students, NURSS, has urged Governor Chibuike Amaechi to disregard efforts by some mischievous politicians to distract his administration from delivering the dividends democracy to the people of the state.

SECURITY has been beefed up in Akure, Ondo State capital, ahead of today’s delivery of judgment by the Election Petition Tribunal sitting over the October 20 governorship election in the state.

THE government of Anambra State is not anti-labour and would continue to do everything posible to give workers a sense of belonging, Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Mr. Oseloka Obaze, has said.

THE issue of fare disparity by foreign airline operating in Nigeria has once again come to the front burner as Nigerians who travelled recently on these foreign airlines complained bitterly about paying higher fares than their fellow passengers from Ghana, for instance, on the same flight.

Edo State governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, has recalled 20 teachers, who were sacked October last year for absenteeism. He also announced the recall of Education Secretaries in the local governments, who were also relieved of their duties due to negligence.

Youths in Auchi, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State, under the aegis of Auchi Youths for Initiative, AYI, yesterday, locked out staff of Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, for several hours in protest over alleged marginalisation of indigenes of the host community by the management of the institution in employment opportunities.

DELTA State Government has embarked on the destruction of illegal structures blocking water channels in Warri and Effurun. It also vowed not to spare any illegal structure on water channels in the state.

Prominent civil rights activists, yesterday, described as laughable and illegal the decision of the new executive of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State to declare the seats of 27 members of the House of Assembly vacant.

‘Moving the ministry to the permanent site’ is a joke known by all and sundry. It implies a shift, an improvement, a change of level. It is a phrase that explains Gordons’ 13 years journey from grass to grace, from being relatively unknown to being an ace-comedian that cracks jokes to Heads of States. At the peak of his career at the Vanguard Personality of the Year Awards,which held last month, Weekend Groove caught up with this renowned comedian. In this interview, Gordons speaks on comedy, music and the woman in his life.

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ON Sunday, the telecommunications regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission, posted a document on its portal entitled Determination of Dominance in Selected Communications Markets.