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.

The four mobile policemen arrested for allegedly robbing several banks, including one in Owutu area of Ikorodu, Lagos State, will today know their fate, says Police High command.

The Federal Government has ordered Julius Berger Nigeria Plc to immediately commence the repair and rehabilitation of some failed sections of the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, Lagos.

Concerns about the threat of Boko Haram to national and sub- regional peace and security were raised yesterday as the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Onyeabor Ihejirika, spoke on the operational capabilities of the force to deal with the threat.

The FIFA U-20 World Cup begins today in Columbia with one of Africa’s representatives, Mali taking on Korea Republic in the opening match of the tournament.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan warned, yesterday, that members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP who assume that they are too big to be managed by the party can leave, even as he stressed that the leadership of the party must be courageous enough to discipline erring members.

Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Senator Anyim Anyim, has charged members of the Presidential Committee set up to audit the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to unravel the causes of the crisis, which had bedeviled the commission over the years. He made the call, yesterday, while inaugurating the Committee in Abuja.

SIRENS can be expensive as Mrs. Endurance Odubu, wife of the Deputy Governor of Edo State has discovered. A Federal High Court in Benin City ordered her to pay N12 million as damages to Captain Olorunduyilemi Stephen, an officer with the 4th Brigade of the Nigerian Army.

AUTHORITIES of the Royal Berkshire Hospital, where the ailing former Biafran warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu is receiving treatment, has debunked media reports that the Ikemba Nnewi’s condition had deteriorated, insisting that he is in a stable condition.

THE House of Representatives has concluded plans on a bill for the establishment of a fund into which the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, will contribute N500 billion to bail out ailing commercial banks in Nigeria.