By AbdulWahab Addullah IN what appears as a reaction to the recent declaration of self determination by members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, police authorities may have moved to nip the secession plan. MASSOB had, on Tuesday, in Okwe, Onuimo, Imo State declared self determination and launched […]

BY  SIMON EBEGBULEM FORMER chief whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie, says it will be     completely out of place for the Federal Government to build the proposed Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) in Kaduna now that the nation is experiencing a serious crisis in the Niger Delta. He, therefore, wants President Umaru Yar’Adua not to […]

BY JIDE AJANI PRESIDENT Umar MusaYar’Adua has reached out to governors in the opposition political party in oil producing states pursuant to actualizing his resolve to end the restiveness in the oil-rich region, Sunday Vanguard can reveal. One of the ways Yar’Adua is going about this is by conceding the nomination of members to the […]

*Soldiers looted, sold my television — Chief Ekpebide By EMMA AMAIZE Warri-THE Presidential Committee on Amnesty plans to dispatch psychiatrists, psychologists and doctors to the various rehabilitation camps it is setting up in the Niger-Delta for militants who are willing to accept amnesty  because it believes some of them are on drugs and may have  […]

By  EMMA AMAIZE NIGER-DELTA elders,  today,  at a meeting in Warri, Delta State, gave four conditions that should be met by the Federal Government for its peace process on the Niger-Delta, including amnesty for militants to work. They, however, volunteered to set up a contact group to liaise with all the militant groups with a […]