ASABA—Kidnapers, yesterday, fled and abandoned their weapons as a Police Anti-Kidnapping Squad in Asaba, Delta State, stormed their den in a forest at Ibusa, to rescue a policeman, Corporal Abraham Ujah, and two others abducted by the gangsters.

ABUJA — The Federal Government, yesterday, assured Nigerians that the current fuel scarcity witnessed across the country will ease off before weekend, even as major petroleum marketers said they have deployed 495 truckloads of petrol, with a minimum capacity of 33,000 litres each to Lagos and Abuja.

Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta has declared March 6 work free day to enable civil servants to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) before the March 8 deadline.

The demands, which Mike Ozekhome’s chambers describe as laughable, include the stoppage of further transmission of the alleged defamatory documentary, failure which daar communications will be made to pay twenty billion Naira representing damages.

BARELY one week to the March 12 rescheduled election of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, tribal and ethnic sentiments have torn Congress apart, as some of the affiliates and state councils have alleged that the processes leading to the election have been tailored towards ensuring that the president and key officers emerge from the North.