Teachers in Bayelsa State have rated the performance of the 36 state governors and President Musa Yar’Adua in the handling of industrial crises and strike embarked upon by their members and lecturers in the Nigerian university as abysmal.

Residents of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, Monday night had cause to take refuge in the comfort of their homes as repentant militants went on yet another round of rampage in protest over their allowances.

Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has identified good governance and responsiveness to the needs of the people by leaders as way out of the rising violence against the society by the masses.

THE Retrial Election Tribunal sitting in Asaba yesterday adjourned for judgment in the election petition filed by the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) governorship candidate in Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru, during the 2007 governorship polls, following the formal adoption of addresses from counsel from both parties.

THE National Economic Council, NEC, yesterday, approved the sharing of the $2 billion (about N300 billion) recently proposed for injection into the economy to avoid an imminent contraction of the economy following ongoing reform of the banking sector by the Central Bank.