The Federal Government has again been urged to release the over N500bn owed the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to enable it complete its numerous development projects in the region.

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other Related Matters, NAPTIP, has confirmed that the Egyptian girl married to Senator Sani Yerima was actually born in January 1996.

THE Federal Government, yesterday, asked the International Labour Organisation, ILO, to support her efforts at retaining jobs just as more jobs are being threatened as a result of the global economic crisis.

KARLSTAD—SWEDISH Minister for Culture, Ms. Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, Monday, opened the sixth World Summit on Media for Children and Youths with a call for participants to maximise the opportunities available at the conference to impact on their countries.

An Abuja-based human rights activist and legal practitioner, Chief Udofia Akpan, yesterday requested a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to issue an order of mandamus compelling EFCC to, forthwith, begin the prosecution of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Dimeji Bankole and his deputy, over alleged fraudulent execution of a N2.3 billion car purchase contract.