UMUAHIA—A coalition of pro-Biafra groups, Biafra Restoration Citizens, has called on all pro-Biafra groups to be involved in the on-going voters’ registration exercise, saying it would play a major role in the event of a referendum for the emergence of Biafra.

LAST week’s copy of this column that centred on the probability of members of the Reformed All Progressives Congress defecting to the Peoples Democratic Party where most of them had originally defected from to join the APC- that copy was hardly dispatched for publication when the nation was gripped by news of the defection of the law makers who had for a while now been disgruntled with the leadership of their party. They had by Tuesday last week made good their threatened defection as the National Assembly led by leaders of the estranged faction of the APC summarily proceeded on recess. Since then the cat and mouse game between members of the R-APC and the leaders of the APC has escalated.

President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki yesterday announced his decision to leave the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP

Doctors at a private hospital in Lekki area of Lagos are battling to save the life of 45-year-old businessman, Godwin Obike who was allegedly stabbed in different parts of the body by his sister in-law at their Lekki Garden Phase 4 residence in Lagos.

INVESTORS in the power sector yesterday requested the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, to urgently convene a meeting of the electricity distribution chain to enable them brainstorm on how to move the sector forward.