CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, Senator Shehu Sani, APC, Kaduna Central, and the state chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, were, yesterday, locked in a war of words over the former’s suspension.

A pan-Niger-Delta group, the Reformed Egbesu Assembly, yesterday, demanded that President Muhammadu Buhari stop the payment of 13 per cent Oil Derivation Funds to the governors of oil and gas producing states of the Niger Delta with effect from January 1, 2017, alleging that the governors had squandered over N17 trillion since the disbursement commenced.

THE Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday, described the military’s declaration of Operation Python Dance on Igbo soil as another dimension of war by the Buhari-led administration against Ndigbo.

Super Falcons coach Florence Omagbemi has said she will be making some changes to her team that will play against the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon in the final of the Africa Women Cup of Nations on Saturday.

The Federal Government, yesterday, flagged off the distribution of agriculture app smartphones to rice farmers across the country.

The Minister of State for Niger Delta, Prof. Claudius Daramola, on Wednesday ascribed the victory of APC in the last guber polls in Ondo to the counsel of President Muhammadu Buhari.

GOVERNOR Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has said the state has big plans for female mechanics and drivers, saying the government will engage female mechanics in the maintenance and repairs of the state government-owned vehicles.

The on-going economic recession has persisted owing to application of wrong prescription by non-professionals, the Director of Policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Moses Tule, has contended.

The United Nations has said that there is humanitarian crisis in the 16 local government areas liberated from Boko Haram terrorists in the North-East.

Minister of Communications, Mr. Adebayo Shittu, yesterday, absolved the Federal Government of complicity in the bid by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, to increase the price consumers pay on data services.

INCOMING governor of Ondo State, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu yesterday explained why he did not mention Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in his victory speech even as he said that his All Progressives Congress, APC has now set its sight on taking over the governorship of Ekiti State.

Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State and three others have been dragged to court by one of the contenders, who is claiming the traditional stool of Awka Etiti community in Idemili South Local Government Area, Igwe Chuma Ojukwu, for allegedly issuing certificate of recognition to the second contenderh, Michael Ezeudenna.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman Mr Femi Adesina, has said that if Jesus was accused it’s not surprising to him that Buhari is being criticised and accused.

THE Federal Executive Council, FEC, yesterday, approved the 2017 budget estimates, though details of the document were not made available.

THE place of the Igbo race in the present dispensation was yesterday bemoaned by prominent Nigerians of Igbo extraction, with the consensus that the Igbo were being unfairly treated in Nigeria.