News Desk Thursday, June 28, 2007

Senate Rejects Motion to Release MASSOB Leader

A motion sponsored by Senator Uche Chukwumerije and 24 other Senators asking the Senate to request the release of the leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, Mr. Ralph Uwazurike, was on Wednesday rejected. MORE>>

Protesters Insist on Trial of Ex-Governor Nnamani by EFCC

Protesters on Wednesday besieged the Enugu office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, demanding the prosecution of the immediate past governor of the state, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani. The protesters, comprising mostly members of civil society groups, sacked state civil servants and commercial motorcyclists, said that Nnamani ought not to enjoy plea bargaining. MORE>>

PDP, ANPP, PPA Reach Accord on Unity Govt

Dodgy concessions of public entities, and privatisation, including that of refineries between March 1 and May 29 this year, are to be reviewed by the government. That is one of the conditions given by the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) to team up with President Umaru Yar’Adua, which he and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have accepted. MORE>>

500,000 bpd Nigeria Crude to Remain Shut-in Through 2007

LAGOS — ABOUT 500,000 barrels per day of Nigeria’s crude oil output, representing a fifth of the country’s current total production, will remain shut-in through 2007 after the Royal Dutch Shell Plc foreclosed yesterday, plans to re-enter its operations in the western Niger Delta. MORE>>

6-Month Jail Term Awaits Naira Abusers

LAGOS — THE amended Act of the Central Bank (CBN) is stipulating a jail term of six months for anyone that abuses the Naira. The Act which was recently signed into law, provides that anyone caught spraying the naira will be jailed for six months without an option of fine while anyone abusing the naira in any other way that is, writing on it, will be jailed for six months or pay a fine of N50,000. MORE>>

Lagos Plans to Relocate Collapsed Buildings Victims - Declares Ebute Metta, yaba, Lagos Island Disaster Areas

LAGOS—The Lagos State Government has concluded plans to relocate the victims of collapsed and defective buildings in the state to Epe and Ijanikin in the suburb areas of the state even as it threatened to acquire such buildings. MORE>>

Nigerian Students 5th Largest in UK - GOZNEY

Nigeria has the fifth largest population of students studying in Britain (United Kingdom), behind United States of America, China, India and Malaysia, the British High Commissioner in Nigeria, Sir Richard Gozney, disclosed at a press briefing in Lagos. MORE>>

Nigerians Protest Killing of Citizen by Spanish Police

A MASSIVE protest by Nigerians is to be staged tomorrow across the globe to demand a probe into the maltreatment and subsequent killing of a Nigerian, Osamuyia Aikpitanhi, by Spanish law enforcement agencies on June 9, this year. The march, being organised by a group called Concerned Nigerians Worldwide (CNW), is billed to hold in over 20 countries. According to reports, Aikpitanhi, a Nigerian immigrant, was arrested by Spanish agents and "loaded" into an Iberia aircraft bound for Lagos, Nigeria. MORE>>