INDICATION emerged yesterday that the Federal Government has jettisoned the agreement reached with organised labour that all levels of workers, including the non-core civil servants would benefit from the N18,000 new minimum wage.

Vanguard can authoritatively reveal that barring last minute changes, Governor Rauf Aregbesola will present the list of his cabinet members to the State House of Assembly tomorrow.

The embattled former Minister of Works, Dr Hassan Lawal, yesterday, begged a Federal High Court in Abuja to quash two separate criminal charges preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

First Bank of Nigeria, FBN, Plc, has recorded a 23.33 per cent growth in profit after tax in its half year 2011 financial performance.

Determined to extricate himself from allegations that he inflated the cost of contracts awarded by the House of Representatives whilst he was the Speaker, Mr Dimeji Bankole, yesterday, flayed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for comparing the crime he allegedly committed with that of the convicted former Chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Chief Bode George.

MORE revelations emerged yesterday at the five-man panel of enquiry investigating the violent clashes between factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, in Oyo State as a witness alleged that a factional leader of the union, Alhaji Lamidi Mukaila rented the equipment the past administration attempted to use to demolish the secretariat of the union in Olomi area of Ibadan.

Staff and management of the Independent Corrupt Practises and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, are at loggerheads over the refusal of the Acting Chairman, Dr Rose Abang Wushishi, to vacate office after the expiration of her term.

THE Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Edo State, yesterday, issued a seven-day ultimatum to Governor Adams Oshiomhole to announce the inclusion of teachers in the new wage as agreed with workers in the state or face their wrath.

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, yesterday, differed on cause of the post-election violence that erupted in some northern states after last April’s presidential election.