#HEADLINES

= The Oyo State Police Command has arrested a man, identified as PASCAL AMAECHI who is said to be specialized in robbing passengers along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

= Senate President DAVID MARK has urged Nigerians to embrace the proposed National Conference as a platform to tackle the current security crisis in some northern part of the country.

= The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said there is no going back on the already four-month-old strike except the federal government fully implements the agreement it reached with the union in 2009.  

= The Adamawa State government has inaugurated conflict resolution committees for the 21 local government areas of the state.

FOREIGN

= French Foreign Minister LAURENT FABIUS says France will be sending more troops to the Central African Republic to help African efforts to stabilize the country.

= U.S. Secretary of State JOHN KERRY and the U.N. Arab League envoy for Syria say an international conference to set up a Syrian transitional government must be organized urgently and held as soon as possible.

SPORTS  

= The Nigeria Football Federation Vice President, Chief MIKE UMEH has revealed that the unruly attitude of Ethiopian fans to the Nigeria delegation to Sunday’s crunch 2014 1st leg World Cup final playoff match was reported to the FIFA Security team at the match venue.

= England manager ROY HODGSON expects to have a sleepless night worrying about his side's decisive World Cup qualifier against Poland at Wembley on Tuesday.

ENTERTAINMENT    

= American rapper DMX offered to help a depressed fan by reading her passages from the Bible. The hip-hop star was approached by the unnamed woman outside the “We JAMMIN” restaurant in Los Angeles.