#HEADLINES

=President Goodluck Jonathan has directed all public officials, civil servants and visitors to government establishments to wear the 2014 Armed forces Remembrance Emblems.

= The Federal Government is to prosecute telecommunications operators, found to be cheating subscribers through poor service delivery.

= According to Channels Television, The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its over five months old strike.

= The Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Morro has disclosed that from next year, applicants for Nigerian passports are to get it within 30 minutes, which he said would help eliminate corruption, as part of the rebranding process of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS).

= The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru  Jega says general elections would not hold in the three north-eastern states of Adamawa, Yobe and Borno, unless the state of emergency declared by the federal government to fight the Boko Haram insurgency ends before 2015.

= Fresh gunfire has erupted overnight in the South Sudanese capital Juba a day after the government said it had crushed an attempted coup.

= Japan's cabinet has approved a new national security strategy and increased defense spending in a move widely seen as aimed at China.

= The Metropolitan Police in the UK has resolved that there was no credible evidence that the British Special Air Service was involved in the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Al Fayed.

= Super Eagles defender Azubuike Egwuekwe has tipped Nigeria to reach the quarterfinals of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

= Former England manager Glenn Hoddle would be willing to become Tottenham Hotspur manager for a second time in a short-term or long-term capacity.

= The Hobbit: “The Desolation of SMAUG” has topped the US box office, taking $73.7million, according to initial estimates but it was down on the first Hobbit installment, which took $84.6million in its opening weekend last year.