ABOUT twenty years after the infamous Otokoto saga which claimed several lives and property in Owerri, the Imo State capital in 1996, one of the people that would not forget the ugly incident in a hurry is Bishop N.E. Moses, the General Overseer of Overcomers Church World Outreach, Lagos. The Otokoto uprising was triggered off, following the killing of one master Ikechukwu Okonkwo for rituals.

MANY persons sustained gunshot injuries and houses razed as fresh hostilities broke out yesterday evening, between Ogbe-Ijoh and Aladja communities in Udu and Warri South West local government areas in Delta state. A source, who spoke to Saturday Vanguard, said: “It started at about 4.30 pm, soldiers came but could not stop the heavy gun battle. As at the time of writing this report, the skirmish continued. The communities have been fighting over a piece of land, not even more than one kilometer for many years now.”

It’s in two ways, when we say economic crunch. I think for now Nigerians have their priority. It’s supposed to be an advantage to us if money was in circulation, for the little in circulation every Nigerian now knows that they have to use it wisely. You have to use your money on made in Nigeria goods, because if you still want to depend on imported goods definitely you will spend more because of the exchange rate, you spend more because of the scarcity of Forex. You spend more because of the banned items we don’t need in Nigeria.

It is fourteen days to the D-Day in Edo state, that is the governorship primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, slated for 18th June 2016 and the heat is on in the state. Like you have super delegates, we also have super governorship aspirants in the APC and they have been traversing the 192 wards in the state including the creeks in Ovia North East of the state, in search of delegates. The over three thousand expected delegates who will vote at the primaries are the most sought after personalities in the state today.

FOR weeks, members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, looked forward to this year’s celebration of the Biafra Day. Over the years, the ceremony had rotated among the Igbo-speaking states and it was the turn of Anambra State to host the event this year. The organizers had chosen Nkpor, a suburb of the commercial city of Onitsha for the celebration. As it was customary, they usually assemble in a church and keep vigil the night before 30th of May every year and then march through some streets in the host city, after which they would return to their home states.