Barely 48 hours after the Lagos state governor, Mr. Babatunde Fasola (SAN) condemned the attack on the Atlas Cove jetty in Lagos by Movement for the Emancipation of Niger /Delta (MEND), president and founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Dr Frederick Fasehun has cautioned that a repeat of such incident in any part of Yoruba land will attract severe retaliation.

It was a two-week of intense activities as Nigerian artists, writers and political activists, including, governors trooped out to honour the Nobel Prize laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka.

The agreement was due for negotiation in 2004 but the government refused to renegotiate until pressure from the unions compelled it to set up the Gamaliel Onosode- led Committee in 2006.

When I arrived from Kaduna in a military uniform and immediately I started singing, people were happy and decided that I wouldn’t go back to the army.

ABUJA – Indications emerged, yesterday, in Abuja that the five-man inter-agency panel headed by the Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro, investigating the $190million Halliburton scandal has been ordered by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to submit an interim report on or before Monday.

IN his official reaction to Sunday’s bombing of the Atlas Cove Jetty by men of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, warned the militants that the action must never repeat itself as the state was quite ready to respond to “this new security threat appropriately”.

If customers are demanding 20 per cent, no bank would want to do overnight lending of 11 per cent in the interbank, as required by the conditions attached to the guarantee. The interest rate cap in the conditions for the guarantee does not reflect the realities of the market, he said

I really have not thought about it, but I don’t feel much different because I knew this would come. I knew it would come to this point. ‘Militants not fighting for me’

“Those killed were Nigerians, like the militants, adding that the olive branch waved by the Federal Government should be embraced as a lasting solution to their agitations”

The leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Mr Henry Okah, who was released  from detention yesterday,  has declared that his release will not change the situation in  the Niger Delta unless the Federal Government address the root cause of crisis in the region. More later…