Following the close of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, camps yesterday across the nation, corps members spoke to Vanguard Learning, during the orientation, about the deplorable living conditions on camps, particularly temporary camps, and the lean food rations in both temporary and permanent camps. These camps accommodate, at each orientation, between 2,500 to 3,000 graduates.

RIVERS State House of Assembly has passed the Port Harcourt Polytechnic bill into law, thus making the former Rivers State College of Arts and Science, Rumuola now Port Harcourt Polytechnic.

The Catholic Church yesterday described Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State as a major pillar of support of the church, just as the church said it does not promote or support violence of any form.

Organised labour has commended the Federal Government through the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, for the intervention and planned stakeholders’ summit on the mass sack in the financial sector, saying the dialogue is aimed at ensuring job retention in the banking sector.

AGGRIEVED workers from the 16 local government areas of Kwara State, under the aegis of National Union of Local Government Employees of Nigeria, NULGE, yesterday crippled activities in Ilorin, the state capital, and barricaded the main entrance of the state Government House in Ilorin, over eight months unpaid salaries and other benefits.