NATIONAL Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odegie-Oyegun, yesterday, received top PDP leaders in Oredo Local Government Area including Mr. Ebima Ogbeide and over 3000 of their supporters into the APC, asserting that the PDP is dead in the state.

Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has said that Nigeria as a country, is waiting for the Igbo people, just as he said, he has seen light at the end of the tunnel for Ndigbo in the country.

OHANEZE Youth Council, OYC has washed its hands off the crisis rocking the pro-Biafra group, Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, which led to the emergence of a splinter group, RE-IPOB. This came at a time the chancellor of the Eastern Mandate Union, EMU, Dr Arthur Nwankwo, also dissociated himself from the Reformed Indigenous People of Biafra, RE-IPOB, the breakaway faction of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB and his nomination as one of the old Eastern Region eminent persons to negotiate with the Federal Government on Biafra.

Serena Williams insists her shoulder problem is not harming her performance after the American dispatched Ekaterina Makarova in the US Open first round.

Despite the official sharp increase in pump price of fuel from N86.50 to N145 in May this year, the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has reported that pump prices were significantly above N145 in 28 states in the month of July 2016.

The dispute between the Nigerian Navy and Oghara community in Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State, over the extent of land acquired for the building of a naval facility in the area has been finally resolved with leaders agreeing to give the Navy an additional 243 hectares of land.

The Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Chris Ezike, has said that 22,603 policemen will be deployed for the election. This is aside officers that will join forces with other security agencies.

WARRI—THE Warri Study Group, WSG, an Itsekiri ethnic nationality organisation in Delta State, yesterday, said that it had no confidence in Chief Edwin Clark and other Ijaw leaders, parading themselves as negotiators, to lead the coastal states of the Niger Delta in any dialogue with the Federal Government.

Bayelsa State Government has declared a deficit of N889 million for the month of June, 2016, out of a net inflow of N4.4 billion from the Federation Accounts.

Senator Ali Modu Sheriff has insisted that for him to participate in any convention organised by Peoples Democratic Party, he must be a co-chair of the event.

LAGOS—Operatives of the X-Squad Department of the Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Lagos, have arrested two dismissed policemen, who extort money from commercial bus drivers, posing to be serving policemen, and three suspected members of a syndicate that posed as officials of the Lagos and Ogun state’s governments to collect revenue from motorists.

A 35-year-old businessman, Ahile Solomon, yesterday, dragged his girlfriend, Ada Joseph, to a Mararaba Upper Area Court for alleged theft.

NNEWI—THE eighty-three years old Founder of New Covenant Christian Fellowship, NCCF, Nnobi, Anambra State, Apostle Chukwusom Okoli, has thrown a challenge to witches, wizards, occults and spiritualists all over the world for a spiritual contest.

History was made yesterday as Star Lager Beer announced an unprecedented partnership with not one but five of the biggest European football clubs – Arsenal, Juventus, Real Madrid, PSG and Manchester City, having a combined history in football of 544 years.

Abuja—The Federal Executive Council, FEC yesterday, approved external three-year rolling borrowing plan. According to Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, the borrowing plan, which will be transmitted to the National Assembly for its approval, will be concessional loans with interest rates at 1.25 percent, with four to seven year moratorium, 20 years to pay.