West Africa Programme Officer of Ford Foundation, Dr. Paul Nwulu, yesterday called on media owners in the country to ensure that journalists were paid their salaries as at when due.

THE International Monetary Fund, IMF, has challenged Sub-Saharan African countries, to reset their economic policies in order to return to the path of growth.

THE Senate, yesterday, passed for second reading a bill seeking for measures to address the negative impacts of global warming or climate change in Nigeria

Rising up from Enugu West Youth Assembly meeting, Hon. Oliver Okah, Special Assistant to the Deputy Senate President, Dr. Ike Ekweremadu, weekend, in a press release, described his boss as a man imbued with wisdom and understanding of leadership is about.

The volume of traffic in the Nigerian aviation industry has tumbled against the backdrop of the downturn in the economy.

Governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC, under aegis of Progressives Governors Forum, PGF, yesterday, stormed Enugu Government House, to commiserate with Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on the killing of about 46 people of Nimbo community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of the state by rampaging Fulani herdsmen.

THE South-west chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is today heading for the precipice as the leaders of the two major factions in the region hold parallel meetings in Akure and Ijebu-Igbo.

NIGERIA’s labour movement is surely in a state of intellectual crisis. The leadership of the leading associations of workers in the country needs both moral and intellectual revival. Even if one is inclined to think that the obvious moral deficiency that current labour leaders exhibit demands more immediate attention that any other matter that puts a question mark on their relevance to the life and plight of the Nigerian worker, their manifest display of intellectual vacuity might be more demanding of urgent amelioration than anything else.

NATIONAL Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, yesterday commended governors Ben Ayade and Adams Oshiomhole of Cross Rivers and Edo states respectively, for their distinguished pronouncements in restoring the dignity of labour during the 2016 May Day celebrations nationwide.

Former governor of Kogi State, Capt Idris Wada has expressed hope of victory at the Election Petition Tribunal, saying he believes the tribunal will ‘right the wrong’ of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, proclamation.

Lagos—THE Court of Appeal in Lagos, yesterday adjourned hearing of an appeal, challenging ban on Hijab (head covering for muslim women) in public primary and secondary schools in Lagos State.

The Zonal Office of the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, sealed about seven filling stations in parts of Owerri and its adjoining communities, yesterday, for flouting varying rules, regulating their operations.

The divergent views between Governor Adams Oshiomhole and his deputy, Dr. Pius Odubu over last Saturday’s reported attack on the latter has exposed the suspicious relationship that has existed between the first two citizens of Edo State. Odubu had alleged that those against his aspiration were behind the attack that left two of his security aides critically wounded. The governor, however, disagreed and said that Odubu’s supporters were the ones who fired the shots at the entourage of the deputy governor.

Houston, Texas — Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, and Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has identified procurement as the weakest link in the Nigerian oil and gas industry value chain.

ABUJA—Family members and thousands of youths led by executive members of the National Youth Council of Nigeria,NYCN,yesterday, protested to the United States of America, USA and the Chinese embassies in Abuja, against the continued detention of Barr. Ikenga Ugochinyere, Senior Special Assistant to the Senate President on Youths and Students Affairs, by the Department of State Service,DSS.