Director-General of Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA), Segun Oshinowo’s delegation was in Geneva, Switzerland for the 103rd International Labour Conference.

The National Conference is ending exactly as some of us who had our reservations had predicted: a waste of time and resources.

Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria University, SSANU, yesterday protested against the authorities of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta over alleged victimisation of their leaders, especially the indefinite suspension of their chairman and secretary, Abdul-Subour Salaam and Olurotimi Fasuwun, respectively.

GOVERNOR Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State has appointed four new aides on students and youth affairs, as well as rectors for the state-owned Institutes of Technology, Ijebu Igbo, Igbesa, Itori and Sapade.

Ekiti State Independent Electoral Commission, EKSIEC, has fixed a referendum over planned creation of additional 18 Local Government Development Council Areas. LGDAs, for this Saturday, even as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State, urged the people of the state, to shun the proposed referendum.

EKITI State Election Petition Tribunal, set up to hear petitions from the June 21 governorship election, yesterday commenced its sitting in Ado Ekiti amid tight security.

The Central Bank Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, said the launch of single currency for the West African Monetary Zone, WAMZ, by January 2015 might not be feasible.

ABUJA—THE All Progressives Congress, APC, has vowed to challenge in court, Tuesday’s impeach-ment of Murtala Nyako as governor of Adamawa State just as it accused President Goodluck Jonathan of being behind the action of the state’s lawmakers.

Gombe Bulls has joined two other Sahara Conference teams — Kano Pillars Basketball Club and Mark Mentors of Abuja — in the semi-finals of the ongoing Dstv Men’s Basketball play-offs.

One of the PDP chieftains expelled from the party allegedly for being moles of the APC in the party, Major Raphael Towobola (rtd) has rebuffed the expulsion.

Cases of various forms of cancer, the deadly disease seen by many as death sentence, have been on the rise. Although experts have not been able to pinpoint the exact cause or causes of cancer, some believe that diet could be playing a very important role in cancer formation.

GOVERNORSHIP candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore says that the plan by the APC to paint him in a bad light will fail.

The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly recently repealed the controversial amendment of the Governors and Deputy Governors’ Pension Law.

The immediate past Vice-Chancellor, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Professor Bartho Okolo has refuted the allegation that he was being quizzed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission last week, adding that he never saw any EFCC staff.

The APC has accused the national leadership of the PDP of planning to foist fabricated results on the people of Osun State saying that all such attempts would be steadfastly resisted as it will lead to chaos.