Spokesman of the militants, Mr. Ikenna Enekweizu, a lawyer, who gave this indication after a meeting with the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, the Minister of Interior Affairs, Maj-Gen Godwin Abbe (rtd), the Commissioner of Police in Rivers state, Mr Bala Hassan and other top security officers in Port Harcourt yesterday said his clients were willing to be part of the healing process being driven by the Federal Government.

Speaker of the House, Zakawanu Garuba, Messrs Philip Shaibu, Bright Omokhodion,Fed Omogberai, Anslem Agbabi and Chris Umogbai, all raised alarm over the state of the road and feared that road accidents would continue along the road unless the Federal Government took urgent steps to dualise it.

The report further stated that granting full “amnesty to all categories of militants in the Niger Delta, including those presently undergoing criminal prosecution would engender confidence in the process and encourage every militant to participate and remove any fear of a hidden agenda and discrimination”.

In an interview with the Financial Times of London published yesterday, his very first interview since assuming office, Sanusi will be preoccupied with three issues in the first few months of his term. These are transparency, accurate disclosures of the bad loans in the banking industry, and systemic risks that may appear from handling individual risks of some banks.

The work of the Amnesty sub-committee, headed by Okiro, according to the report is to cost “N966,000,000:00, after the deduction of the proposed take-off grant.”

UKRAINE is exploring a diplomatic solution to the Wednesday seizure of its plane in Kano. The AN-12 aircraft on its way to Equitorial Guinea was impounded at the Mallam Aminu Kano Airport after making an emergency landing.

A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court Thursday barred President Umaru Yar’Adua from suing till he leaves office. The court gave the ruling while sitting in an appellate capacity in a criminal defamation suit instituted against the Leadership Newspapers Group by the President.

It would be recalled that the inter-agency panel last week called the bluff of the American government over the failure of the FBI to assist the panel corroborate the confessions of some prime suspects during interrogation which is key to their being nailed.

Both commercial and residential areas in the state have continued to experience total blackout as some communities have not received power supply for over three weeks.

In attendance at the meeting were Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan; Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole; Deputy Governor of Akwa Ibom, Engr Patrick Ekpotu; Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Peremobowei Ebebi; Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan; Governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Mimiko and Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi.