EBONYI State government, yesterday, distributed relief materials worth over N30 million to Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, from Azuoffia-Edda community in Abakaliki Local Government Area of the state.

SENATOR Andy Uba, Anambra South, yesterday, told the Senate that he had dumped his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

NATIONAL Delegates Conference, NDC, of National Union of Civil Engineering, Construction, Furniture and Wood Workers, NUCECFWW, billed for tomorrow in Asaba, Delta State, has been enmeshed in intra-union crisis as the Vice President of the union, has petitioned the Ministry of Labour and Employment, over alleged refusal of the union’s secretariat to allow him pick a form for the election, among other perceived infractions.

GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, yesterday, lamented the invasion of the social media by miscreants, whom he said churn out false news and take delight in blackmail, extortion and character assassination.

A strategic syn ergy is about to be formed between Information and Communication Technology (ICT) stakeholders and their counterparts in the insurance sector as both would champion discussions aimed at boosting the economy in a conference tagged e-insurance conference.

ANAMBRA youths have asked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to urgently conduct the Anambra Central Senatorial re-run election to enable the area partake in the governance of the country.

Ahmed Musa has predicted that Leicester City will come out victorious when they face current Europa League winners Sevilla in the Champions League Round of 16 game tonight.

THERE was tension, yesterday, at Igbodu community in Epe area of Lagos, when kidnappers, who engaged themselves in a fierce shoot-out over ransom sharing formula, stormed a farm settlement in Igbodu community of Epe area of Lagos to abduct more victims.

THE Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has waded into the crisis rocking the Sports Writers’ Association of Nigeria (SWAN) as it urges parties in the conflict to refrain from provocative utterances.

THE leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo has called on the Federal Government to give the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra,MASSOB and the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, due attention in their agitation.

The proliferation of lethal weapons appears to have taken a new dimension in Imo State, as Governor Rochas Okorocha’s Imo Civil Guards, ICG, now carry pump action rifles.

IT is no longer news that Nigeria is in a serious recession with a very high misery index. So, as year 2016 Christmas approached, those living in the country were advised by experts in money management to conserve whatever little funds they had at their disposal.

Imo State House of Assembly members have expressed dismay in the way the amnesty programme was carried out, alleging that one of the members of the committee, Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor Rochas Okorocha, Mr Kingsley Uju, has turned it to a “family business.”

Determined to check the spate of kidnappings and armed robberies in the state, Cross River State governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, yesterday, announced the reward of N1 million for anyone who offers information leading to the arrest of kidnappers and armed robbers in the state.

CARLOS TEVEZ is not happy in China and Boca Juniors are planning a return for the Argentinian.