The Senate Plenary that turned rowdy on Wednesday over the primaries conducted by the All Progressives Congress in Akwa Ibom State.

A Senator from Akwa Ibom, Bassey Akpan had raised a point of order to tell the Senate about ‎how the APC primary allegedly threatened the peace in the state.

He also said the PDP was ready for a peaceful contest in the state.

This did not go down well with former Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, who also hails from the state and recently defected from the PDP to APC and raised a point of order apparently to respond to Akpan.

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, however, said Akpabio could only speak from the seat allocated to him.

The National Economic Council is planning towards declaring a state of emergency in the nation’s education sector.

This follows an interim report from the ad-hoc committee on the revival of education in Nigeria received by the council at its meeting today in Abuja.

Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of the NEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

Shaibu said a final decision of the matter would be taken at the next council meeting holding in November.

The deputy governor said the committee recommended that all state governors should declare a state of emergency on education in order to achieve systematic growth in the sector.

The controversy over issues of the new minimum wage may linger longer than expected as the Nigerian Governor’s Forum is insisting that most states cannot meet the demands by the organized labour.

Unions have settled for 30,000 naira minimum pay against the 24,000 naira that federal government is proposing.

But the Chairman of the Governor’s Forum and Zamfara state governor, Abdulaziz Yari told journalists after the forum’s meeting that the nation’s economy is unstable and wants workers to be patient.

Meanwhile, the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Ayuba Wabba has maintained that there is no going back on the minimum wage increment being pushed by the union.

He insists that the minimum wage negotiations with government has been concluded with recommendations reached.

Some members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun state on Thursday stormed the premises of the state High Court, raising an alarm over the alleged disbandment of the 3-man election petition tribunal.

The panel was set up to adjudicate over complaints arising from the conduct of the September 22^nd governorship poll.

Niyi Owolade, one of the counsel to Senator Ademola Adeleke, the PDP candidate told journalists that the party members came for the hearing of an application and substituted service but were told by court officials that the panel had been disbanded.

When contacted to speak on the matter, the court registrar declined to speak to the press.