LEADERS of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and their Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, counterpart have threatened to pull oil workers from Akwa Ibom State and shut down the over 640 Barrel Mobil Producing platform in Eket by tomorrow should the government fail to locate 8 workers kidnapped on Sunday night at Oso platform, in Akwa Ibom State.

There have been mixed reactions to renewed attacks and threat to resume bombing of oil installations in the Niger Delta region by militants.

A 60-year old female pilgrim from Lagos State to this year’s hajj, Mrs. Oni, popularly called Dangote, has died in Mina, Saudi Arabia.

Three other Lagos State pilgrims were hospitalised after eating the loaf of bread distributed by the state pilgrims’ welfare board for breakfast.

Final judgement in 2007 governorship election petition in Osun State between Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, candidate, Engineer Rauf Aregbesola, and Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola, may be delivered by the Court of Appeal sooner than expected.

SECOND Republic Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, yesterday, flayed the move by the National Assembly to integrate all its members into the National Executive Committees, NEC, of their various political parties, describing it as self serving.