News Desk Tuesday, July 31, 2007

FG Shifts Foreign Policy Focus to Nigerians

LAGOS — FOREIGN Affairs Minister, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, said yesterday that henceforth, Nigeria’s foreign policy would focus on the welfare of Nigerians while also ensuring the protection of Africa’s interest. MORE>>

Court Seizes 6 Alams' Firms

LAGOS — SIX companies belonging to former Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, were yesterday confiscated and ordered to be wound-up by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, while their assets running into billions of naira were ordered sold and the proceeds paid into the state government's account. MORE>>

Reporter, Others Probe how Britain Influenced Rigging in Nigeria

A British Broadcasting Corporation report claims that British colonial masters helped rig Nigeria’s pre-independence elections to ensure that a pro-United Kingdom party won. Mike Thomson, a former reporter with the UK’s Sky News, The Daily Mail and several other international media carried out the investigation, the BBC radio, reported on Monday. MORE>>

Uwazuruike, Risk to National Security

THE Federal Government on Monday told a Federal High Court in Abuja that it would be dangerous to release the leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) on bail, because he allegedly posed a serious risk to national security. MORE>>