The confab yesterday, decried the slaughtering of domestic animals in abattoirs in the presence of others, saying the act was not only cruel but wicked to the animals

TO diversify the current mono-economy, delegates have called for the revival of the agricultural sector.

ACTIVITIES were almost brought to a halt yesterday over sharp disagreements by delegates on the recommendation by Conference Chairman, Justice Idris Kutigi that new rules be adopted to fast track discussions in order to meet the confab’s less than five weeks deadline

AS delegates discussed the report of the Committee on Agriculture and Water Resource, yesterday, Alhaji Mahmood Usman, attributed the emergency of Boko Haram sect to the neglect of Lake Chad

CHAIRMAN of the National Conference, Justice Idris Kutigi, yesterday, urged delegates to hasten discussions on reports of the committees because they have only five weeks to conclude their assignment.

DELEGATES yesterday urged the Federal Government to immortalise former Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and later Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili, who died on Saturday.

The ongoing National Conference is bound to fail given the alleged determination of the North to frustrate the process for the purpose of sustaining the status quo, Senator Femi Okurounmu, chairman of the presidential advisory committee, which birthed the confab, has said.

DELEGATES, yesterday, unanimously rejected an amended recommendation of the Mrs. Ebele Okeke-led Committee on Public Service to jerk up the N18,000 minimum wage to N40,000, saying that it was unnecessary and uncalled for to review workers’ salaries now.

MEANWHILE, Igbo leaders on the banner of Igbo Leaders of Thought ILT have insisted on restructuring of the country into true federalism as the surest way to cement the country’s unity, warning that those planning to use insurgency to get power at the centre are toying with disintegration of Nigeria

FORMER Minister of Education and delegate to the National Conference, Professor Jubril Aminu, yesterday, described the moribund Ajaokuta Steel as a victim of economic hit-men, regretting that Nigeria made the mistake of giving the contract to Russians

DELEGATES, yesterday, agreed that, Senators, members of House of Representatives and State Houses of Assembly should be on part- time basis as against the present structure of full time.

AKWA Ibom State delegates have insisted that states must be made to control their resources and remit an agreed percentage of taxes to the Federal Government as a means of stimulating national development.

VICE Chancellor of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko and Ondo State delegate to the National Conference, Professor Femi Mimiko, yesterday, canvassed for the removal of fuel subsidy to stem mind-boggling graft in the scheme.

INDICATIONS emerged last night that the National Conference might have ended abruptly because of a sharp disagreement between Northern and Southern delegates over fresh agitation to re-introduce oil dichotomy and adopt a new derivation formula for oil-bearing states in the country

NATIONAL Conference Delegate, Col. Tony Nyiam, (rtd), yesterday asked the Federal Government to hands off the collection of Value Added Tax, VAT, saying the government was reaping from where it did not sow