FOR the second time within two months, youths from the nine member states of the Niger Delta embarked on protest that almost crippled activities at the headquarters of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Port Harcourt.

THERE are indications that convicted Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Bode George and five other members of the board of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, which he led, will spend the weekend in jail, despite Justice Joseph Oyewole’s readiness to hear their motion for bail pending the appeal.

THE member rep-resenting Etsako Central constituency in Edo State House of Assembly, Mr. Chris Umogbai, escaped death by the whiskers last Tuesday after suspected assassins stormed his GRA residence in Benin City.

The celebration by residents of Edepie suburb of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, in the wake of Golden Eaglet’s victory over Honduras in the ongoing FIFA under 17 World Cup, was cut short Tuesday, as two kids were burnt to death, following a fire that engulfed their apartment.

ANAMBRA State Police Command said, yesterday, that Professor Chukwuma Soludo, whose 78-year-old father was kidnapped on Tuesday, was yet to make a formal statement to the police.

CHAIRMAN, of Delta State chapter, Mechanical Sand Miners and Quarries Association, Chief Adelabu Bodjor, has said the establishment of an agency to monitor dredging of sand in the state was unnecessary, as one already exists.

Media Director of the Mega Summit Movement, Alhaji Hamisu San Turaki, said ,Thursday, in Abuja that the newly formed National Democratic Movement (NDM) is to work with the Mega Summit Movement to launch a formidable pro-people political party before the end of the year.

A law for kidnappers to serve life in jail, is underway. A bill to such effect scaled second reading in the House of Representatives yesterday.

IN apparent solidarity with the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, which began mass rallies in Abuja to protest Federal Government’s planned deregulation of downstream sector of the nation’s oil and gas industry, religious leaders yesterday urged the government to tackle corruption, rather than further impoverishing the Nigerian poor masses.

By Victor Ahiuma-Young & James Uwem

ABUJA—ACTIVITIES in  Abuja were today brought to a stand-still as thousands of workers and other Nigerians marched through its major streets to protest government’s planned deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry.

It was organised under the umbrella of Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO), [...]