The cargo plane with registration number UR-CAK, and a crew of four was believed to be heading to Equatorial Guinea when it suddenly made a technical landing in Kano at about 2.00 a.m. yesterday.

The government has also agreed to fully liberalise the country’s Railway transport sub-sector by allowing private business concerns to build operate and own (BOO) their own railway system on designated routes, especially the Lagos-Benin-Calabar axis where railway transport does not exist.

The criteria for nomination was based on selfless service; enduring achievements; sincerity of purpose; resilience; patriotism; uprightness; respectability and incorruptibility.

And in Abuja, President Umaru Yar’Adua, reacting to the news that militant leader, Ateke Tom, was ready to embrace the Government’s amnesty offer said “it would be a great joy for me to personally accept the first militant leader who takes advantage of this amnesty.”

Vanguard investigation revealed that the apex bank might insist that banks make full provision for loans granted these organisations, an action that would affect the performance of many banks.

Following last week’s violent attack on the Joint Task Force by suspected militants in which four persons, among them a community leader was killed, residents of Letugbene, a coastal settlement in the Bayelsa West Senatorial District have fled their homes.

The CBN has already directed that banks should make provision for the loans which implies that the facilities will be provided for though not lost as banks will eventually recover the loans when prices of shares go up to the level of the facilities granted.

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Some stakeholders, including lawyers association had suggested a total overhaul of the state police command, and redeploy those who have stayed many years in the state, alleging that some of them work hands -in-gloves with the kidnappers and other criminals. For now, Abia is unsecured but the government is working hard to make it a better place.

Chairman of Letugbene community, Prince Jude Biukeme confirmed the death of the high chief, whose name was given as M. Kurobo in an interview with Saturday Vanguard, yesterday, while the acting leader of the Movement for Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), “General” Boyloaf admitted that three of his men were shot dead.

The biggest loss of June 12 is that Nigeria’s history books are being written without facts on what occasioned the cancellation of an election that could have changed the face of Nigeria, if the result stood. Who cancelled the result? Why was it cancelled?

In response, the Group Executive Director, Finance and Administration of the NNPC, Mr. Abiodun Arogundade, protested that: “The total dividend that we received from the NLNG is not close to $5 billion. We actually received $4.43 billion.

Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Ubong Ufot Ekaette signed the contract on behalf of the Federal Government, even as the contractor expressed fear of high security risk in the execution of the project, insisting that work has to be done under strict military guards and escorts.

The Ikemba Nnewi observed that Iwu’s action was borne out of “mischief”, saying “it is unfair that Nigeria is going through this kind of thing.”

“If any militant group and their collaborators want a show of force, we are ready, if they want to test their strength; they are welcome as we do not engage in media war and cheap popularity.