Following the failure of governments of Rivers and Abia states to  implement the 27.5 per cent enhanced teacher’s emolument agreed upon between the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) and Governors Forum in 2008, the National Executive Council (NEC) of NUT has directed primary and secondary school teachers in the two states  to proceed on indefinite strike action to join their counterparts in Oyo state, who are already on strike, over the refusal of  Oyo state government to implement the same agreement.

A temporary set back was suffered by the suspended House of Representatives members who were recently suspended by their colleagues for their unruly conduct in what has become the greatest show of shame in the House in recent times, as a Federal High Court declined to acquiesce to an oral application made by their counsel; Mr. Femi Falana for them to be allowed access to the Chambers of the House of Representatives to participate in the deliberations going on in the interest of the constituencies they were elected to represent.

Embattled former Deputy of Bayelsa state; Mr. Peremobowei Ebibi today suffered a set back in his bid to get a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to restrain the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the State Security Service and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission from arresting, interrogating or detaining him over a mountain of financial misappropriation allegations upon which he was recently kicked out of office by the Bayelsa state House of Assembly.