#HEADLINES

= President GOODLUCK JONATHAN has directed the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to ensure it registers all Nigerians by December 31^st, 2014.

= Seven weeks after the Federal Government announced that it has commenced implementation of the agreement signed with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) by disbursing N100 billion to 59 public universities; the affected tertiary institutions have raised alarm that they are yet to receive the fund.

= The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has claimed that an oil marketer, ROWAYE JUBRIL, did not import the petroleum products for which he received N963.7 million subsidy.

= A Nigerian-born cleric, Bishop ENOCH ADEBAYO, says no fewer than 500 Nigerian youths are languishing in Japanese prisons over alleged drugs and other related offences.

= Authorities in Northern Ireland are blaming the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland formed in late 1965, for recent racist attacks on its African residents, including Nigerians.

= Chemical weapons inspectors in Syria have been unable to access one of the designated sites because of safety concerns, the world's chemical weapons watchdog has told the BBC.

= Burmese police have announced that one person was killed when two bombs exploded in a restive eastern state in the latest small-scale bombing in the Southeast Asian country.  

= Switzerland have sensationally knocked mighty Brazil out of the Top 10 of the monthly FIFA rankings. The Swiss are on a 14 game unbeaten run, dating back from May 2012.

= ARSENE WENGER is on the verge of signing a new contract at Arsenal after accepting the club’s offer of a new two-year deal.      = American film director MICHAEL BAY has been injured in an attack in Hong Kong while filming on the set of his latest Transformers film. According to the police two men have been arrested on suspicion of blackmail and assault after they demanded money from the film crew.