By Olasunkanmi Akoni Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Sunday, celebrated his 46th birthday, donating food items to the Missionaries of Charity Babies’ Home in Ikosi, Ketu, Alapere just as he donated a new building to the Chief Michael Oyemade Ogunjobi Children’s Home in Surulere.

In a related development, Justice A. N. Nwankwo of the High Court in Ebonyi State has discharged and acquitted Mr. Sunday Awol Adom of all the 19 count charges filed against him and two others.

By Tony Edike ENUGU—ABOUT 183 different types of unexploded explosives recovered from nine states affected by the Nigerian – Biafran Civil War were yesterday detonated by the Ministry of Defence, 39 years after the war ended.

It was further gathered that about two persons were rushed to an undisclosed hospital as a result of the injuries they sustained in the pandemonium that followed the sporadic shooting in the area.

And it was these that forced the people out of frustration to adopt diverse forms of struggle, including violence exhibited in the forms of vandalization of oil pipelines and facilities, kidnapping of oil workers, hostage taking and engaging in a military warfare with the military deployed to protect oil facilities.

By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA—THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said, yesterday, that the issue of impeachment of Governor Peter Obi was  never discussed at last week’s meeting of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC)  with  members of the Anambra State House of Assembly in Abuja. National leadership of the party had summoned the 30 PDP Anambra […]

He appealed to all militants to embrace the amnesty by Mr. President as that was the only way they could become integrated into the mainstream of the society again after fighting with the Federal Government, warning that “nobody or group could withstand the federal might when it came to war as the recent event has shown.”

By  Enyim Enyim ONITSHA—Tragedy struck at Umueze Anam, Anambra West Local Government Area of Anambra state at the weekend, when a final year student of Nnamdi Azikiwe university, Izuchukwu Patrick, aged 22, and his girlfriend died in a boat mishap on his way to his father’s burial. Umueze Anam,  is a community in the outskirts […]

He noted that since the incident, not an individual “has been given relief material.”
Reyenieju condemned what he described as “the lackadaisical and arrogant attitude of PPMC officials to what he described as the tragedy of the people of his constituency over the endless effects of oil spill which has consistently affected their means of livelihood and even underground waters.

“I found out that the overall purpose of formation of UPU by veteran leaders like Chief Mukoro Mowoe, Chief Sanubi and others was to harness unity among ourselves.”

By Emma Arubi WARRI—THE Agadagba of Egbema Kingdom, Warri North Council area of Delta state, HRM Gold Eyituoyo Tiemo, Bini-Pere 111, has dissociated himself from the alleged kidnap saga of one Isaac Thinkan along Koko road after a court case.

The group recalled that these same people paraded another old man of over 70 years as King of Egragbene at Asaba sometime ago.

Owie, who is also the leader of the Action Congress (AC) in Edo state, told Vanguard in Benin yesterday, that the N50billion amnesty granted to the militants was a step in the right direction but that the gesture would be more successful if the Technical Committee report is implemented by the President.

The House of Representatives will tomorrow debate on an edgy motion that seeks to declare the winner of the June 12, 1993 Presidential Election, Chief Moshood Abiola, President, posthumously.

GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State weekend justified the constitution of the caretaker’s chairmen for the 18 councils after the Court declared the election of erstwhile chairmen illegal.