The state government had since appealed against the judgement. Mr Smith Adeleye, a principal Assistant registrar who spoke with journalists on behalf of the aggrieved staff displaying placards noted that they were embarrassed by her action, saying “ it is an embarrassment not only to the judiciary in the state but to the country at large.

In a welcome address, Governor Saraki, who was represenred by the state Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Prof. Mohammed Gana Yisa, listed preponderance of illiterate population, lack of management of harvest of proceeds, over reliance on rudimentary technology of hoes and overdependence on rains, untapped underground water for agriculture, the banking sector’s lack of understanding of the peculiarities of agriculture banking processes as challenges facing agriculture in Nigeria.

The former president who tendered nine certified documents from the presidential library to support his presentation admitted that The Berom Elders Council wrote twice, first to kick against the creation of Jos North Local Government Area and second, calling for a revisit of the creation after it was created.

In an online statement yesterday, Igbini said,“ wheras, I totally condemn as immoral and unconstitutional the decision of the Federal Executive Council to downgrade and ultimately destroy the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Effurun, while upgrading the College of Petroleum Studies in Kaduna, the current proposed Nigerian PIB, if passed into law, will better serve the national interest and more, particularly, the interest and benefits of the exploited and deprived people of the oil producing communities in the South-South.

The convoy of President Umaru Yar’Adua was yesterday involved in an accident on its way from Ilorin, the Kwara State capital to Abuja.