Prof, we mourn you as we remember how you sacrificed your health, in service of this ungrateful country, during the rigorous seating of President Yar’Adua’s Technical Committee on the Niger Delta; which (as we found out within the first twenty-four hours of its inauguration) was set up to fail! But true progressive Nigerians saluted the determination of yourself and your fellow forty-eight other colleagues to produce the supposedly-desired Report against all odds.

Particularly, Ateke told Vanguard in a telephone interview yesterday, that he would prefer the the former UN scribe, Mr. Kofi Annan, to witness the dropping of arms by the militants “because I want to surrender my arms in a genuine environment”.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has debunked insinuations in some quarters concerning disruptions in the country’s SAT 3 Fibre Optic Cable.

RELIEF may soon come for the people and government of Cross River State over the controversial ceding of 76 oil wells to Akwa Ibom State as President Umaru Yar’Adua has finally subscribed to a political settlement between the parties.The Director-General, National Boundary Commission, (NBC), Mr. Sadiq Diggi, told Vanguard, in Abuja.

Political economist and Director of Lagos Business School, Professor Pat Utomi and other stakeholders in the oil and gas industry, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to exercise caution over the controversial Petroleum Industry Bill.