THE crisis rocking the University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, took a new turn yesterday as the Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, asking it to investigate allegation of embezzlement and corruption against the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Bartho Okolo.

The Bank of Industry, BoI and the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU on entrepreneurial skill development for youths in the country just as a corps member got N3.8m collateral-free loan. The bank had sought collaboration with the NYSC to train and empower corps members in various entrepreneurial skills and give them collateral-free loan as capital and expansion of business initiatives.

THE Joint Task Force, JTF, codenamed Operation Pulo Shield, said, yesterday that its operation in the riverside town of Igbomotoru in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State last Sunday was not to harass the natives as claimed, but to dislodge suspected crude oil thieves and pipeline vandals.

The Weights and Measures Department (WMD) of the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment has vowed to prosecute more companies in the oil and gas sector who cheat by under -dispensing petroleum products to customers.

THE altercation between Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State and his Imo counterpart, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, continued yesterday as a community leader in the state, Chief Paulinus Anagboso, described the latter as suffering from inferiority complex.

The Rivers State Government has stated that it will unify the academic calendar and the curriculum for both public and private schools in the State. Commissioner for Education, Dame Alice Lawrence-Nemi disclosed this in a meeting with the National Association of Private School Proprietors NAPPS, Rivers State Chapter, All Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools ANCOPSS and Association of Primary Schools Head Teachers of Nigeria AOPSHON in her office in Port Harcourt.

Worried by the lingering communal crises at Osumenyi, Anambra State, which has claimed lives and property of the natives since 2006, one of the factional leaders, Mr. Celestine Obi-Oguatu, yesterday appealed to his fellow indigenes and opponents to abide by the solution proffered by Catholic and Anglican bishops in the area.

Ten schools have qualified for the quarter finals of the 10th Doregos Inter-Schools Basketball championship after qualifying from the group stage.

Secretary to the Lagos State Government, Dr. Oluranti Adebule has charged teachers in the state to always put in their best in the discharge of their duties so as to distinguish themselves among their peers.

The year 2013 ended on a good note for Covenant University, as the Centre for Democratic Governance in Africa (CDGA) awarded her the Best Private University in Nigeria, while the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Charles K. Ayo was inducted an honorary member of the centre.