News Desk Friday, July 06, 2007

SSS Disrupts Igbo National Council's Conference - INC Alleges Plot for Igbo Extinction

ENUGU—OPERATIVES of the State Security Service (SSS), yesterday, stormed the Sunshine Guest House, Enugu where leaders of the Igbo National Council (INC) were addressing a news conference on national issues bothering on the Igbo interest, disrupted the conference and whisked away leaders of the group. MORE>>

Militants Kidnap 3-yr-old British Kid

PORT HARCOURT — A THREE-YEAR-OLD British kid, Margaret Hill, was yesterday abducted by armed youths in Port Harcourt. She was on her way to school. Sources said five boys in a Toyota Saloon car blocked the vehicle taking Margaret to school and then ordered those in the car to release her to them. Her attackers smashed the windscreen of the vehicle. MORE>>

Stop Pulling Yourself Down, Mark Tasks Igbo

ABUJA—Senate President David Mark yesterday charged Igbos in politics to stop the practise of pulling one another down just as he warned that Governors would never again be allowed to rubbish their Senators. MORE>>

Yar'Adua Recalls Ambassadors

Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Alhaji Aminu Wali, and politically-appointed ambassadors have been recalled. A United States-based Nigerian news agency, Empowered Newswire, reported on Thursday that President Umaru Yar’Adua had asked them to tidy up their assignments by the end of June ahead of the appointment of new envoys. MORE>>

Senate President Warns Ministerial Nominees

The President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, has warned ministerial nominees against offering bribes to senators during their screening. The screening will start on Tuesday at 10am. Mark, who read out the names of 34 nominees at the plenary session of the Senate on Thursday in Abuja, also advised his colleagues against accepting gratification from the would-be ministers. MORE>>

Anenih, Others for Probe - Over N1 trillion Spent on Roads

THE battle between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Chief Tony Anenih has shifted to the Senate with the upper chamber launching a probe of Anenih’s tenure as works minister. MORE>>

Rivers Woos Militants With N1m Each

Cultists, militants and other arms bearers in Rivers State are to receive the N1 million each if they renounce criminal activities. The chairman of Peace and Rehabilitation Committee in Rivers State, Hassan Tam Douglas, made this public, while speaking with the leader of the ‘Bush Boys’ of Okrika, Sunny Opuambe, in Government House, Port Harcourt. MORE>>