The negotiations between the Federal Government and the nation’s labour movement on minimum wage took a dramatic turn yesterday in Abuja as the labour delegation walked out of the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and never returned.

NATIONAL President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor yesterday picked holes in a statement credited to the Sultan of Sokoto and president general of Jamatul Nasril Islam JNI, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubukar, saying it falls short of expectations.

FOLLOWING criticisms that trailed his proposal to forward a bill to the National Assembly for a single term tenure for the president and governors, President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, declared that the idea was not his but all the political parties except the Action Congress of Nigeria.

The Presidency yesterday confirmed Vanguard’s report last Monday on a proposed constitutional amendment to restrict the Presidential and gubernatorial tenure to a single six-year term. Vanguard had also reported that President Jonathan and the incumbent governors will not benefit from the proposed single tenure.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Oyo State, Senator Lekan Balogun at the Commission of Enquiry investigating the bloody clashes between two factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, yesterday, alleged that the immediate past administration of Adebayo Alao-Akala supplied ammunition and money to a faction of the union.