Akure—WORKERS in the Ondo State Board of Internal Revenue, BIR, yesterday rejected the planned competency test organised by the board. The workers under the aegis of Joint Public Service Negotiating Council, JNC, directed its members not to show up for the test which would have started today. The rejection was one of the resolutions of the meeting of the leadership of JNC held in Akure where the welfare of workers in the state workforce were discussed.

Bauchi State government has said the appointment of Secretary to the State government (SSG,, Alhaji Suleiman, as the Emir of Misau followed due process.

Osogbo—Osun State House of Assembly, yesterday harped on the need to block all avenues through which resources are wasted to ensure steady growth for the state. The lawmakers disclosed this while reviewing the last 24 years of the state’s existence at a special session held to mark 24th anniversary of its creation.

Succour has come the way of the Agege residents in Lagos as Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa is set to build a resource centre in the community with the focus of training and empowering youth and women so as to live a better life in the state.

MORE reactions yesterday continued to trail the last set of appointments made by President Muhammadu Buhari, as Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo called on its members to remain calm “in the present circumstance of unexplainable and skewed pattern of appointments which has completely excluded Ndigbo.”