Arrangements have been concluded for this year’s Igbo Day Celebration organised by Ohaneze Ndigbo, the Apex Igbo Socio-cultural organisation, in Owerri, Imo state capital.

THE story making the rounds in newsrooms across the country is that Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State has allegedly sold the expansive Eastern Region acquired Rubber Estate at Ameke Abam, Arochukwu Local Government Area, to Madam Eunice Uzor Kalu, mother of former governor of the state, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu.

Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State has decried the rising wave of religious crises in the country, describing the perpetrators as pagans in Christianity and Islam.

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Benue State chapter has condemned the actions of the Benue State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development which stripped the Benue State chapter of Law Officers’ Association of Nigeria (LOAN) of its registration as a union.

AS the world today celebrates the World Right to Know Day, the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) and Right to Know Movement in Nigeria (R2K Nigeria) have launch a campaign to enforce Nigerian laws, which contain guarantees of access to publicly-held information.

Briefing newsmen on the development in his Moscow road office, the state Police Commissioner, Mr. Bala Hassan, said due to the rising cases of attack and abduction of residents of Port Harcourt travelling to Aba for business and other reasons, he had to reach an agreement with his Abia State counterpart for the Rivers State police command to deploy some men of its Anti-terrorism squad to the border between the two states.

MRS Caroline Onoh, widow of the late former Governor of old Anambra state, Chief Christian Onoh, at the weekend accused some staff of Parklane Specialist Hospital, Enugu of plotting to kill her son, Josef Onoh, who is being detained in the hospital by the police.

The Na-tional Union of Textile Workers and Tailoring Union of Nigeria has asked President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to explain to Nigerians why he preferred to travel to Saudi Arabia instead of the 64th General Assembly of the United Nations where he could have lobbied for the country’s seat in the UN.

LEADER of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, vowed yesterday that the party would engage the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Maurice Iwu in a fierce battle if he continues to disobey court orders recognising Chief Victor Umeh as authentic National Chairman of APGA.

COMMITTEE for the implementation of presidential amnesty has assured that militant leader, Ateke Tom, would key into the exercise before it expires on October 4.