A Kidnap kingpin serving a 20-year jail term was among those apprehended on Sunday morning, when inmates of the Port Harcourt prisons attempted to escape,the police have said.

Major Hamzat Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer to late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, who is currently standing trial before a Lagos High Court, over the murder of late Kudirat Abiola, yesterday, told the court that the torture he went through in the hands of security agents while he was being interrogated by the Special Investigative Panel was such that he admitted any property shown to him as belonging to late General Abacha.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan is proposing a host of constitutional amendments. But one that is going to pre-occupy the nation in the months ahead is the proposal to make the tenure of the President and governors a single term of six years, instead of the current four-year term renewable for another term of four years.

The five-man committee headed by Mr. Dibiya Ayakurai, set up to audit the staff of Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has uncovered a N10 million monthly wage scam. Over 29 dead persons and 72 ghost workers were under the employment of the council and receiving salaries since 2003.

THE Senate ad-hoc committee probing the privatisation and commercialisation activities of Bureau of Public Enterprise, BPE, yesterday commenced with revelations that the Aluminium Smelting Company of Nigeria, ALSCON, which was valued at $3.2 billion (N480 billion) was sold to a Russian company, Russel for $250 million (N37.5 billion).