The Director General of the Voice of Nigeria, OSITA OKECHUKWU, has accused the National Chairman of the All Progressives, ADAMS OSHIOMHOLE, of promoting “impunity” in the party and circumventing due process in APC primary election.

OKECHUKWU, speaking on a monitored programme in Abuja also accused the national chairman of flouting the federal character principle in constituting the various panels which handled the primaries as well as appeals emanating from them.

The Enugu West Senatorial district aspirant said it is not true that 90 per cent of the party members were behind OSHIOMHOLE, and called on him to toe the honourable path and resign.

But BABATUNDE OGALA, the National Legal Adviser of the APC said OKECHUKWU sounds like someone that has a personal axe to grind with ADAMS OSHIOMHOLE.

The tripartite committee meeting has once again failed to reach a consensus over the new minimum wage.

Members of the committee include labour leaders, the organized private sector and the federal government team.

Present at the meeting were the NLC President Ayuba Wabba, the Budget and National Planning Minister, Udo Udoma; while the United Labour Congress was represented by Igwe Achese.

Chairman of the committee, Ms. Ama Pepple says both the 30,000 naira stance of the organized labour and the 24,000 naira proposed by the federal government would be submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari for onward submission to the National Assembly.

However, the organized labour has begun their nationwide strike over the new national minimum wage in accordance the directive of the three labour centres, that’s the NLC, TUC and ULC.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has resumed its industrial action over poor funding and sundry issues.

The university lecturers took this decision at the end of the National Executive Council meeting of ASUU held at the Federal University of Technology, Akure.

National President of ASUU, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, who announced the union’s decision, highlights some of their demands.

Meanwhile, ASUU Chairman, UNILAG chapter, Dr Dele Ashiru, has confirmed that lecturers of the university have joined the national strike announced by the union<strong>.</strong>

The ASUU chapter at the Lagos State University (LASU) is also on strike.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has re-arraigned a former Governor of Oyo State, Rasheed Ladoja on an amended 11-count charge bordering on an alleged 4.7 billion naira fraud.

Ladoja was arraigned alongside Wahab Akanbi before Justice Mohammed Idris at the Federal High Court in Lagos.

The duo was first arraigned in 2008 before Justice Ramat Mohammed of the Federal High Court but they challenged the validity of the charges all the way to the Supreme Court over a period of seven years before the apex court in 2015 dismissed their appeal and sent them back to the high court to face their trial.

They both pleaded not guilty to the amended charges and the presiding judge, Justice Idris has fixed November 12 to rule on the no-case submission applications filed by the defendants.