IBADAN – FOLLOWING the intervention of some elders in Oyo State, the two-week-old strike called by the Oyo State Chapter of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, over disparity in the N18,000 minimum wage table has been suspended for two weeks to give room for further negotiation.

Diamond Bank Plc has entered into negotiations with multilateral agencies to source Tier 2 capital in its 2012 financial year. It also plans to ask shareholders for their approval to enter into merger talks with other banks and to raise N31 billion in bonds.

ADO-EKITI—The dispute between Ekiti State Government and the state branch of Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, over the appointment of new judges into the state’s judiciary has taken a new turn as the body has asked its members serving in the State Judicial Serving Commission, SJSC, to resign their membership from the commission or risk sanction.

“What is the matter with you, that you are not conscious of Allah’s majesty, seeing that it is He Who has created you in diverse stages? See you not how Allah has created the seven heavens one above another, and made the moon a light in their midst, and made the sun as a (glorious) lamp? And Allah has produced you from the earth, growing (gradually)” (71:13-17).

OPERATIVES of State Security Service, SSS, thought in 201 1 that they have successfully put to an end, a syndicate that specialized in cloning telephone lines of serving state governors, which they use in defrauding unsuspecting members of the public.