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.”