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.