THE Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), yesterday advised the Federal Government led by President Umaru Yar’Adua against withholding the local government allocation to Lagos State or any act that could hinder the payment of salaries to workers in the state.

Leader of the Islamist fanatics, Boko Haram,  the radical anti-western education sect has been  captured. Mohammed Yusuf had fled Maiduguri during the recent fighting between his followers and the Nigerian military. According to reports, troops stormed the sect’s stronghold overnight, killing many of the sect members and forcing others  including the sect leader to flee. […]

Vanguard learnt that the decision to throw out the workers was taken at a meeting of the Board of the Commission in Warri last Wednesday, but the 520 take-off staff would be retained.

According to Chief Oyegun who spoke with Vanguard in an interview in Benin yesterday, “there was no need for the governors to threaten to pull out of the amnesty. The amnesty is in danger; it is in jeopardy unless the Federal Government does something quickly.

In a statement by the group’s Chairman, Professor Gabriel Yomere said that if Nigeria is to be truly a federation, it must jettison the present political arrangement.