THE Senate investigation into the alleged utilisation of more than N300 billion in the transportation sector during the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has recommended the prosecution of thirteen former Ministers of that era for the alleged abuse of the due process mechanism of that administration.

The assorted weapons surrendered by repentant militants under the amnesty of the Federal Government are to be destroyed in accordance with international arms convention, Sunday Vanguard can reveal.

By Vincent Ujumadu Awka-How else can the shenanigans going on in Anambra State be described? The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had set last Friday as deadline for the submission of names of candidates of political parties for next February’s governorship election in Anambra State. And in what seems to be the rush to beat […]

The Federal Government yesterday launched a Marshall Plan for the development of the Niger Delta. The initiative was disclosed by Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole after a tripatite meeting involving Governors of the Niger Delta, the Federal Gobvernment and the militant leaders. in Abuja.Governor Oshiomole spoke to State House Correspondents on behalf of other governors.

THE Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger-Delta vowed, yesterday, to consume the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, should the group make good its threat to commence fresh attacks on oil installations in the Niger-Delta even as the National Assembly has appropriated a total N10.2 billion for the settlement of allowances of over 10,000 militants who have accepted the Federal Government’s amnesty.

There are indications that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) might suspend its over three-month old strike today (Friday) as most of its chapters have endorsed a two-week suspension within which the agreement between it and government would be signed.

MOVEMENT for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) said yesterday that militants would resume fresh attacks on oil installations in the country at the expiration of its ceasefire on October 15, just as it also distanced the group from tomorrow’s meeting of President Umaru Yar’Adua with ex-militant leaders and governors.

GOVERNORS of the thirty-six states of the federation, under the aegis of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, yesterday, called on President Umaru Yar’Adua to treat kidnapping in the country the way he addressed that of the militancy in the Niger Delta.

TO EFFECTIVELY fight malaria, Rivers State government is to collaborate with a Cuban company to build the first malaria control factory on the continent in Port Harcourt.

THE Federal Government has started an earnest search for investors to purchase the eight troubled banks whose chief executives were sacked by the Central Bank after an audit of the banks.

Minister of Defence, General Godwin Abbe (rtd), in Port Harcourt, last weekend, gave an indication of how the government will engage the repentant militants in positive roles in the society as part of the post-amnesty programme.

*Ateke Tom’s men leave creeks for Port Harcourt *Tompolo scheduled to meet Yar’Adua Don’t rejoice yet, MEND tells FG By Emma Amaize, George Onah and agency reports THE zero hour is here : The deadline  given militants on June 26, 2009, by President Umaru Yar’Adua to lay down their arms and be granted amnesty. As […]

By Omoh Gabriel Istanbul, Turkey GOVERNOR of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, yesterday, in Istanbul, Turkey, explained the nature of the apex bank intervention in the banks, especially Spring Bank and Wema Bank.

JUST 24 hours to tomorrow’s amnesty deadline, the most powerful militant leader in Nigeria and the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of militants in the Niger-Delta, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo is expected to publicly accept amnesty with over 3,000 militants under his command and also handover at least 500 weapons to the Federal Government today (Saturday, October 3).

THREE days to the deadline for militants in the Niger-Delta to lay down their arms and embrace the Presidential Amnesty granted by the Federal Government, President Umaru Yar’Adua yesterday received one of the key militants, leader of the Niger-Delta Vigilante and Patriotic Force (NDVPF), Mr Ateke Tom, with a promise that in the next two to five years, the region will witness massive infrastructural development.